Browsing by Author "Lanni, Adriaan"
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Constitutional Design in the Ancient World
Lanni, Adriaan M.; Vermeule, Cornelius Adrian (Stanford Law School, 2012)This paper identifies two distinctive features of ancient constitutional design that have largely disappeared from the modern world: constitution-making by single individuals and constitution-making by foreigners. We ... -
The Expressive Effect of the Athenian Prostitution Laws
Lanni, Adriaan M. (University of California Press, 2010)This article argues that attention to the expressive function of law suggests that the Athenian laws prohibiting former prostitutes from active political participation may have had a much broader practical impact than ... -
The Future of Community Justice
Lanni, Adriaan M. (2005)In recent years, a series of crime control practices known collectively as community justice have reintroduced rehabilitation and discretion to control certain minor crimes. This parallel system for approaching minor crime ... -
The Laws of War in Ancient Greece
Lanni, Adriaan M. (University of Illinois Press, 2008)One of the earliest and the most famous statements of realism in international law comes from ancient Greece: the Melian dialogue in history of the Peloponnesian War. In 416 B.C.E., the Athenians invaded Melos, a small ... -
Precautionary Constitutionalism in Ancient Athens
Lanni, Adriaan M.; Vermeule, Cornelius Adrian (Cardozo Law Review, 2013)The Athenian democracy developed striking institutions that, taken together and separately, have long engaged the attention of theorists in law, politics, and history. We will offer a unifying account of the major institutions ... -
Precautionary Constitutionalism in Ancient Athens
Lanni, Adriaan M.; Vermeule, Cornelius Adrian (Cardozo Law Review, 2013)The Athenian democracy developed striking institutions that, taken together and separately, have long engaged the attention of theorists in law, politics, and history. We will offer a unifying account of the major institutions ... -
Publicity and the Courts of Classical Athens
Lanni, Adriaan M. (Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 2012)This Essay explores the role that public legal proceedings played in the classical Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.E. The courts in classical Athens enjoyed a larger market share of cultural ... -
Social Norms in the Ancient Athenian Courts
Lanni, Adriaan M. (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013-08-02)Ancient Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. Scholars typically attribute Athens’ success to internalized norms and purely informal enforcement mechanisms. ... -
Social Norms in the Courts of Ancient Athens
Lanni, Adriaan M. (Harvard Univesrity Press, 2006)Ancient Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. Scholars typically attribute Athens’ success to internalized norms and purely informal enforcement mechanisms. ... -
Transitional Justice in Ancient Athens: A Case Study
Lanni, Adriaan M. (University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2010)This article presents our first well-documented example of a self-conscious transitional justice policy - the classical Athenians’ response to atrocities committed during the reign of the Thirty Tyrants - as a case study ... -
"Verdict Most Just": The Modes of Classical Athenian Justice
Lanni, Adriaan M. (2004)Most comparative lawyers know a great deal about Roman law but almost nothing about the courts of classical Athens. This is no mystery: unlike Roman law, Athenian law produced no jurisprudence and very little legal doctrine, ...