Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition

by Clifford Ando

The Romans depicted the civil law as a body of rules crafted through communal deliberation for the purpose of self-government. Yet, as Clifford Ando demonstrates in Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, the civil law was also an instrument of empire: many of its most characteristic features developed in response to the challenges posed when the legal system of Rome was deployed to embrace, incorporate, and govern people and cultures...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812243544
• ISBN13: 9780812243543
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"