The Moral World of the Law

by Edited by Peter Coss

• ISBN13: 9780521648332
• ISBN10: 0521648335
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-24
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The dominant and deceptively simple theme of this book is the relationship between the moral environment of the courtroom and that of the society in which the court is situated. The volume ranges widely across time and space, from ancient Greece to twentieth-century Africa. As a consequence, it encompasses not only the highly professional legal systems of the Roman, later medieval and modern worlds, but also the relatively unprofessionalized courts of classical Athens and of the early Middle Ages and the alien, imposed legal systems of colonial Rhodesia and Kenya.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction Peter Coss

The language of law in classical Athens

The autonomy of Roman law Andrew

Local participation and legal ritual in early medieval law courts

Due process versus the maintenance of order in European law: the contribution of the ius commune

Inside the courtroom: lawyers, litigants and justices in England in the later middle ages

æNemo mortalis cognitus vivit in evoÆ: moral and legal conflicts in a Florentine inheritance case of 1442

Law, litigants and the construction of æhonourÆ: slander suits in early modern England

Story-telling and the social imagery of religious conflict in nineteenth-century French law courts

æTheir idea of justice is so peculiarÆ: Southern Rhodesia 1890û1910

KenyattaÆs trials: breaking and making an African nationalist

Conclusion

Index

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