Invention of Law in the West

Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion! ethics! and even politics! and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention! a crucial aspect of Western history! took place against the backdrop of the Roman Empire's gradual consolidation. Schiavone reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion. Zusammenfassung Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion! ethics! and even politics! and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention! a crucial aspect of Western history! took place against the backdrop of the Roman Empire's gradual consolidation. Schiavone reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion.

Product details

• Authors: Aldo Schiavone, Schiavone Aldo
• Assisted by: Jeremy Carden (Translation), Carden Jeremy (Translation), Antony Shugaar (Translation), Shugaar Antony (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2012
• EAN: 9780674047334
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04733-4
• No. of pages: 640
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, LAW / Legal History, LAW / Civil Law, Ancient Rome, Legal History, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Systems of law: civil codes / civil law, Civil codes / Civil law