The Moral World of the LawPeter R. Coss 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 unprofessionalised courts of classical Athens and of the early middle ages and the alien, imposed legal systems of colonial Rhodesia and Kenya. |
Contents
The language of law in Classical Athens | 17 |
The autonomy of Roman law | 37 |
lawyers litigants and justices in England | 91 |
moral and legal conflicts | 113 |
slander suits in | 134 |
Storytelling and the social imagery of religious conflict in | 161 |
Southern Rhodesia | 178 |
breaking and making an African nationalist | 196 |
Conclusion | 240 |
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