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Rechtswissenschaftliche Fakultät Lehrstuhl Alonso

Ancient Legal History

(Vst.-Nr. 0224)

Title
Ancient Legal History 
Description

Roman law in its final form, as compiled in Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis, builds the foundation of all continental European legal systems, and tends therefore to be studied in isolation, as the only source of our own legal thinking.

Unlike this idealized Roman Law of the romanistic tradition, the actual Roman law of History arose and evolved as one among many other Ancient legal traditions, which preceded it by centuries and even millennia. Legal History, thus, was already old when Roman law started its development. The course "Ancient Legal History" aims to explore these "other" legal traditions and their interplay with Roman law. Through examples taken from the Mesopotamic, Egyptian and Greek legal traditions, this course will focus on the actual legal practice of these Ancient cultures, handed down to us through innumerable documents, particularly clay tablets from Mesopotamia and papyri from Greek and Roman Egypt and the Near East.

In addition, the course will also look at problems that arose as a result of Roman expansion: In particular, how the Roman jurists, the Roman courts and the Imperial bureaucracy addressed a legal practice that, unlike in Italy, was in the provinces often still dominated by such non-Roman legal traditions.

Date
Wednesday, 8:00-9:45 a.m.
Venue KOL-F-121
Module See
Documents

Skript Ancient Legal History (PDF, 16 MB)

Exam Oral exam (closed book) in presence

Provisional programme:

Date Subject Literature Slides
20.09.2023 Ancient Legal History: Introduction

Nörr (PDF, 790 KB)

Selb (PDF, 1 MB)

Lecture 1 (PDF, 20 MB)

I. Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Legal Traditions

27.09.2023

The Cuneiform Legal Tradition I
Online via Zoom

Hallo (PDF, 980 KB)

Roth (PDF, 157 KB)

Snell (PDF, 211 KB)

Lectures 2 & 3 (PDF, 1 MB)

04.10.2023 The Cuneiform Legal Tradition II    
11.10.2023 The Ancient Egyptian Legal Tradition I

Theodorides (PDF, 2 MB)

Lippert (PDF, 267 KB)

Lloyd (PDF, 840 KB)

Lectures 4 & 5 (PDF, 16 MB)

18.10.2023 The Ancient Egyptian Legal Tradition II

 

 

25.10.2023 The Greek Legal Tradition I

Todd (PDF, 1 MB)
MacDowell (PDF, 794 KB)
Gagarin (PDF, 1 MB)

Lectures 6 to 8 (PDF, 9 MB)
01.11.2023 The Greek Legal Tradition II

 

 

08.11.2023 The Hellenistic Legal Tradition I Gagarin (PDF, 6 MB)
Mélèze Modrzejewski (PDF, 818 KB)
 
Lectures 9 & 10 (PDF, 6 MB)
15.11.2023 The Hellenistic Legal Tradition II    
II. Sale and Acquisition
22.11.2023 Cuneiform Legal Practice

Lecture 11 (PDF, 3 MB)

29.11.2023 Hieroglyphic and Hieratic Legal Practice 

 

06.12.2023 Demotic Legal Practice

 

Lecture 12 (PDF, 6 MB)
13.12.2023 Greek Sale: The Payment of the Price I

Lectures 13 & 14 (PDF, 2 MB)

20.12.2023 Greek Sale: The Payment of the Price II    

Weiterführende Informationen

Podcasts

Podcasts of this lecture will be made available here continuously after each lecture: Podcasts Ancient Legal History.

Please note that due to possible technical issues full and complete availability of the podcasts cannot be guaranteed.