Legal science

Dario Mantovani; Ernest Caldwell; Sofie Démare-Lafont; Caroline Humfress; David Ibbetson; Geoffrey MacCormack; Patrick Olivelle; Robin Osborne; Robert Pitchard; William Arthur Tooman; Bruce Wells

doi:10.1017/9781009452243.004

Legal science

Dario Mantovani, Ernest Caldwell, Sofie Démare-Lafont, Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Geoffrey MacCormack, Patrick Olivelle, Robin Osborne, Robert Pitchard, William Arthur Tooman, Bruce Wells

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Abstract

Any comparative description of a social and cultural phenomenon, such as ‘law’ and its practice, requires a definition in order to identify the parallel elements in different traditions and societies which are to be compared. This is especially the case if we define ‘legal science’ in its strictest sense: the study of the content of legal norms and of their systematic order. In this chapter, an effort has been made to characterise ‘legal science’, as far as possible, from the internal point of view of several traditions and societies (Chinese, Indian, Roman, Greek, Mesopotamian, Egyptian, and Jewish). In this perspective, we will refer to both the set of activities carried out by ‘legal experts’, in the whole domain of law (legislation, adjudication, legal counselling and education), and the legal experts themselves, as far as they were regarded as such by their own societies

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Cambridge comparative history of ancient law
Editors	Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Patrick Olivelle
Place of Publication	Cambridge
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Chapter	3
Pages	73-145
Number of pages	73
ISBN (Electronic)	9781009452243
ISBN (Print)	9781107035164
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009452243.004
Publication status	Published - May 2024

Keywords

Legal science
Legal training
Legal literature
Legal reasoning
Nature and law

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