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The Moral World of the Law

Peter Coss editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

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Essays on relationship between the moral environment of the courtroom and that of the surrounding society.

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. Like previous Past and Present edited volumes, the volume ranges widely across time and space, from ancient Greece to twentieth-century Africa.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. Like other Past and Present conference proceedings, 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. The Moral World of the Law is based upon papers delivered at the conference of that name, sponsored by the journal Past and Present and held at the University of Birmingham in 1996.

ISBN: 9780521640596

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm

Weight: 580g

280 pages