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Informationen zum Autor Adriaan Lanni is Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. She has contributed to the Yale Law Journal, the Law and History Review, The Cambridge Companion to Greek Law, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Legal History. Klappentext Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a new model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyzes the Athenians' preference in most cases for ad hoc! discretionary decision-making! as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Lanni argues that the Athenians consciously employed different approaches to legal decision-making in different types of courts. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that! by modern standards! had an extraordinarily individualized and discretionary approach to justice. Zusammenfassung In this 2006 book! Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyzes the Athenians' preference in most cases for ad hoc! discretionary decision-making! as opposed to what moderns would call the rule of law. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Athens and its legal system; 3. Relevance in the popular courts; 4. The homicide courts; 5. Legal insecurity in Athens; 6. Maritime cases; 7. Conclusions.
