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Ancient Legal Thought: Equality, Justice, and Humaneness from Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud

Ancient Legal Thought: Equality, Justice, and Humaneness from Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud

Name: Ancient Legal Thought: Equality, Justice, and Humaneness from Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108484107
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Author: Larry May
ISBN: 9781108484107

By Larry May

Cambridge University Press July 2019

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ISBN-13: 9781108484107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: July 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This is a study of what constituted legality and the role of law in ancient societies. Investigating and comparing legal codes and legal thinking of the ancient societies of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, India, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and of the ancient Rabbis, this volume examines how people used law to create stable societies.

Starting with Hammurabi's Code, this volume also analyzes the law of the pharaohs and the codes of the ancient rabbis and of the Roman Emperor Justinian. Focusing on the key concepts of justice equity and humaneness, the status of women and slaves, and the idea of criminality and of war and peace; no other book attempts to examine such diverse legal systems and legal thinking from the ancient world.

Part I. Mesopotamia and Egypt: Section 1. Ancient Procedural Law:

1. Ancient legal reasoning

2. Judging, trials, and assemblies

3. Oaths, ordeals, and truth

Section 2. Freedom, Equality, and Legal Status:

4. Debt forgiveness and equity

5. Freedom and slavery

6. Class, legal status, and equality

7. Women's separate sphere

Section 3. Crime and Punishment:

8. Complicity and conspiracy

9. Crime and Lex Talionis

10. Capital punishment

Section 4. International Justice:

11. Ancient treaties and trust

12. Aggressive war and necessity

Part II. Greece and China: Section 5. Law, Justice and Equity:

13. Custom and law in Ancient Greece and China

14. Justice and equity

15. Trial, juries, and democratic assemblies

Section 6. Legal Status:

16. Citizens and aliens

17. Women

18. Slavery and democracy

Section 7. Responsibility and Punishment:

19. Causation and responsibility

20. Homicide and pollution

21. Justification, excuse, and mitigation

22. Hubris and impiety

Section 8. War and Amnesty:

23. Amnesty, sanctuary, and exile

24. Justified war and the law of nations

Part III. India and the Roman Republic: Section 9. Law, Justice and Equity:

25. Law and its sources in Ancient Roman and Indian law

26. Legal procedures and trials

27. Equity and justice

Section 10. Legal Status and Social Class:

28. Legal status of women

29. Social class and slavery

Section 11. Responsibility and Punishment:

30. Political and moral crimes

31. Punishment, cruelty, and humaneness

32. Crimes concerning legal and political abuse

Section 12. War and Treaties:

33. Treaties, hostages, and keeping faith

34. The rules of war and the law of peoples

Part IV. Rabbinic Law and the Roman Empire: Section 13. Justice, Equity, and Conflict of Laws:

35. Law, morality, and religion

36. Dual legal regimes

37. The law and ancient legal scholars

Section 14. Differential Status:

38. Women in Jewish and Roman thought

39. Slaves in Jewish and Roman legal thought

Section 15. Responsibility:

40. Intention and causation in criminal law

41. Injury and murder

42. Public punishment, penal prisons, and police

Section 16. Universal Law at the End of Ancient Times:

43. Universal law and human rights

44. The origins of the just war doctrine

45. Final thoughts on equity, justice, and humaneness.

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