The Invention of Law in the West

Aldo Schiavone

Translated by Jeremy Carden

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$65.00 • £56.95 • €59.95

ISBN 9780674047334

Publication Date: 01/02/2012

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640 pages

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

Belknap Press

World

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Aldo Schiavone founded the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, where he was Professor of Roman Law. He is the principal investigator of a European Research Council Project on Roman legal thought, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of books including The End of the Past, The Invention of Law in the West, Spartacus, What Is Progress, and Pontius Pilate.

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