The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina

by Bruce W. Frier

Overview

Combining historical, sociological, and legal expertise, Bruce Frier discloses the reasons for the emergence of law as a professional discipline in the later Roman Republic.

Originally published in 1985.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691639567
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	04/19/2016
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #28
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• FrontMatter, pg. i
• Contents, pg. vii
• Tables and Figures, pg. ix
• Preface, pg. xi
• Abbreviations, pg. xix
• I. The Litigants: Aulus Caecina and Sextus Aebutius, pg. 1
• II. The Urban Praetor: P. Cornelius DolabeIIa, pg. 42
• III. The Advocates: M. Tullius Cicero and C. Calpurnius Piso, pg. 95
• IV. The Jurists: C. Aquilius Gallus and Ignotus, pg. 139
• V. The Recuperatores, pg. 197
• VI. The Corona, pg. 235
• VII. Conclusion: The Professionalization of Law, pg. 269
• Index of Passages Cited, pg. 289
• General Index, pg. 303