Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition

Name: Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition
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ISBN: 9780812243543

ISBN-10: 0812243544

ISBN-13: 9780812243543

Edition: 2012

Authors: Clifford Ando

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The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures far afield. Ando studies the processes through which lawyers at Rome grappled with the legal pluralism resulting from imperial conquests. He focuses primarily on the tools-most prominently analogy and fiction-used to extend the system and enable it…

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List price: $54.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 10/12/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 184
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.29" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English



Preface



Citizen and Alien before the Law



Law's Empire



Empire and the Laws of War



Sovereignty and Solipsism in Democratic Empires



Domesticating Domination



Work-arounds in Roman Law: The Fiction and Its Kin


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Acknowledgments