CALL FOR PAPERS: The Ius Gentium in the Graece-Roman Legal Experience (Edinburgh, May 2023) (DEADLINE: 31 December 2022)

 

(Source: Twitter)

We learned of a call for papers for a conference of the ius gentium in the Graece-Roman legal experience at Edinburgh next year. Here the call:

The Centre for Legal History, School of Law, The University of Edinburgh, is delighted to announce a symposium on the topic of the ius gentium in the Graeco-Roman legal experience. The aim of this one-day symposium is to examine the most recent scholarship on the ius gentium as a legal construct and to revisit existing scholarly controversies in light of recent research. In addition, the organisers welcome papers devoted to other legal cultures of the pre-modern world in which similar legal concepts were employed. Papers on the reception of this legal concept are also welcomed, although the intention is to hold a second symposium later this topic.

Submission procedure: Please send a title and abstract of no more than 500 words to the symposium organiser (Paul du Plessis)  by the due date of 31 December 2022.

Selection process: Papers will be selected based on academic merit and relevance to the focus of the symposium.

Date and format of the symposium: The symposium will take place online in May 2023.

BOOK: Michael GAGARIN and Paula PERLMAN, The Laws of Ancient Crete, c.650-400 BCE (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). ISBN 9780198832515, 40.00 USD

 

(Source: Oxford University Press)

We missed this book on the laws of Ancient Crete back in 2016, and which is now being published in paperback version.

ABOUT THE BOOK

This volume presents the Greek text of approximately 200 stone inscriptions, which detail the laws of ancient Crete in the archaic and classical periods, c.650-400 BCE. The texts of the inscriptions, many of which are fragmentary and relatively unknown, are accompanied by an English translation and also two commentaries; one focused on epigraphical and linguistic issues, and the other, requiring no knowledge of Greek, focused on legal and historical issues.

The texts are preceded by a substantial introduction, which surveys the geography, history, writing habits, social and political structure, economy, religion, and law of Crete in this period.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Michael Gagarin, Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Texas at Austin,Paula Perlman, Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Gagarin is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Paula Perlman is Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Note on Chronology
Introduction
Archaic and Classical Crete: Unity or Diversity?
Setting the Stage
The Inscriptions
Government
Persons
Social Institutions
Economy
Inter-Polis Relations
Religion
Law
Catalogue of Texts
Axos
Datala
Dreros
Eleutherna
Eltynia
Gortyn
Knossos
Lyktos
Phaistos
Prinias
Location of Inscriptions
Bibliography
Index of Greek Words
Index Locorum
Subject Index

 

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BOOK: Lorenzo GAGLIARDI & Laura PEPE (Eds.), Dike. Essays on Greek Law in Honor of Alberto Maffi (Milano: Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2019). ISBN: 9788828803034, pp. XX-396, € 40,00

(Source: Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre)

ABOUT THE BOOK

The essays collected in this volume are meant to honor of Alberto Maffi, two years after his retirement. They are all on Greek law, the subject to which professor Maffi has devoted most of his life and scholarship. The papers, whose authors are among the most eminent scholars from all over the world, deal with the main topic of ancient Greek law (private law, criminal law, constitutional law), and range from archaic and hellenistic Greece to Egypt in Roman times. The title of this Festschrift, Dike, celebrates the first international review in Greek and Hellenistic law that Alberto Maffi established, together with Eva Cantarella, twenty years ago.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Lorenzo Gagliardi is associate professor at the Department of Private Law and Legal History, Università degli Studi di Milano.
Laura Pepe is research fellow at the Department of Private Law and Legal History, Università degli Studi di Milano.


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