Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic.
Contributors: Benedikt Forschner - Catherine Steel - Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler - Jan Willem Tellegen - Jennifer Hilder - Jill Harries - Matthijs Wibier - Michael C. Alexander - Olga Tellegen-Couperus - Philip Thomas - Saskia T. Roselaar - Yasmina Benferhat

Author: Paul J. Du Plessis
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 02/22/2018
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781474432535

About the Author

Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses predominantly on the multifaceted and complex set of relationships between law and society in a historical context. Paul is an experienced editor and author. He is co-editor of the following publications: The Making of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (EUP, 2010), Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2007), Reassessing Legal Humanism and Its Claims (EUP, 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (OUP, 2016). He is also editor of New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2013), Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic (EUP, 2016) and Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law (OUP, 2015).