Legal advocacy in the roman world
Editorial GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO.
Mainland Spain
- Publisher GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO.
- ISBN13 9780715626504
- ISBN10 0715626507
- Type Book
- Pages 225
- Published 1994
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
History And Civilization RomanLegal advocacy in the roman world
Editorial GERALD DUCKWORTH & CO.
Mainland Spain
Book Details
There were two legal professions in Ancient Rome: the law was created by the jurists and their work that has been received into the modern systems
but the daily practice of the courts, socially of equal importance, was the terrain of the advocates. This book investigates the role of advocacy throughout the Roman world from the second century BC to the fifth century AD, with attention to the Greek-speaking part of the world, and so to the papyri.
The law is here concieved broadly, to include its administrative branches, concerned with taxation and with relations between government and the municipalities, for there too, advocacy was wanted and used. In the final chapter Professor Crook seeks to set the record straight by arguing that advocacy did not, in consequence of the onset of increasingly bureaucratic government, atrophy or wither away, but flourished unabated.