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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 July 2009
      27 February 2006
      ISBN:
      9780511497865
      9780521857598
      9780521733014
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497865
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.44kg, 222 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 222 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Law: General Interest, Classical Studies, Law
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    In this 2006 book, Adriaan Lanni draws on contemporary legal thinking to present a model of the legal system of classical Athens. She analyses 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. The varied approaches to legal process stems from a deep tension in Athenian practice and thinking, between the demand for flexibility of legal interpretation consistent with the exercise of democratic power by ordinary Athenian jurors; and the demand for consistency and predictability in legal interpretation expected by litigants and necessary to permit citizens to conform their conduct to the law. Lanni presents classical Athens as a case study of a successful legal system that, by modern standards, had an extraordinarily individualised and discretionary approach to justice.

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