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The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 1: The Ancient World

The Cambridge History of Rights, Volume 1: The Ancient World

Author: Clifford Ando; Mirko Canevaro; Benjamin Straumann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108837354
Published In: November 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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The ancient world existed before the modern conceptual and linguistic apparatus of rights, and any attempts to understand its place in history must be undertaken with care. This volume covers not only Greco-Roman antiquity, but ranges from the ancient Near East to early Confucian China; Deuteronomic Judaism to Ptolemaic Egypt; and rabbinic Judaism to Sasanian law. It describes ancient normative conceptions of personhood and practices of law in a way that respects their historical and linguistic particularity, appreciating the distinctiveness of the cultures under study whilst clarifying their salience for comparative study.

Through thirteen expertly researched essays, volume one of The Cambridge History of Rights is a comprehensive and authoritative reference for the history of rights in the global ancient world and highlights societies that the field has long neglected.

Introduction

Clifford Ando, Mirko Canevaro and Benjamin Straumann

1. To claim to protect claims: the generative discourse of Mesopotamian legal rights

Seth Richardson

2. The individual and the communal: early Confucian resources for human rights

May Sim

3. human rights in the Hebrew Bible?

Sandra Jacobs

4. Greek subjective rights? Justice, legal discourse, and legal institutions

Mirko Canevaro and Linda Rocchi

5. Aristotle on subjective rights

Pia Campeggiani