Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic. Contributors: Benedikt Forschner * Catherine Steel * Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler * Jan Willem Tellegen * Jennifer Hilder * Jill Harries * Matthijs Wibier * Michael C. Alexander * Olga Tellegen-Couperus * Philip Thomas * Saskia T. Roselaar * Yasmina Benferhat.

List of contributors; List of abbreviations; A note on translations; 1. Introduction, Paul J. du Plessis; Part 1. On Law; 2. A Barzunesque view of Cicero: from giant to dwarf and back, Philip Thomas; 3. Reading a dead man's mind: Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric, and Roman law, Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen; 4. Law's nature: philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings, Benedikt Forschner; Part 2. On Lawyers; 5. Cicero and the small world of Roman jurists, Yasmina Benferhat; 6. "Jurists in the shadows": the everyday business of the jurists of Cicero's time, Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler; 7. Cicero's reception in the juristic tradition of the early Empire, Matthijs Wibier; 8. Servius, Cicero and the res publica of Justinian, Jill Harries; Part 3. On Legal Practice; 9. Cicero and the Italians: expansion of Empire, creation of law, Saskia T. Roselaar; 10. Jurors, jurists and advocates: law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De Inventione, Jennifer Hilder; 11. Multiple charges, unitary punishment, and rhetorical strategy in the quaestiones of the late Roman Republic, Michael C. Alexander; 12. Early career prosecutors: forensic activity and senatorial careers in the late Republic, Catherine Steel; Postscript, Paul J. du Plessis; Index.