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The Invention of Law in the West

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ISBN 9780674047334

Publication: January 2012

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640 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

Belknap Press

World English

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    • Preface
    • Part One. The Tradition and the History
        • 1. Roman Law and the Modern West
        • 2. History Rediscovered
        • 3. The Jurists in Rome
    • Part Two. The Birth of a Technique
        • 4. Origins
        • 5. Kings, Priests, Wise Men
        • 6. Rituals and Prescriptions
        • 7. The Model of Statutory Law
        • 8. The Logos of the Republic
    • Part Three. Science, Forms, Dominion
      • I. Preservation and Change in the Age of Conquest
        • 9. Ius civile and the Praetors: The Idea of Fairness
        • 10. Orality and Writing
      • II. The Building of Legal Science: from Quintus Mucius to Servius and Cicero
        • 11. The Quest for Order
        • 12. The New Paradigm: Abstraction and Formalism
        • 13. An Aristocratic Theology
        • 14. A Separate Reason: Entities, Rules, Cases
        • 15. Politics and Destiny
        • 16. Legitimacy and Power: The Doctrine of Natural Law
    • Part Four. In the Heart of the Empire
      • I. The Compromise and the Alliance: From Labeo to Gaius and Pomponius
        • 17. Hermeneutics and the Politics of Law
        • 18. The Definition of Characteristics
        • 19. Jurists and Emperors
      • II. The Government: Ulpian
        • 20. The Great Systematization
        • 21. The Custodians of Law
        • 22. Equality Ancient and Modern
    • Abbreviations
    • Notes
    • General Index
    • Index of Sources