Adriaan Lanni is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches courses in ancient law and modern American criminal law and procedure. She trained as both a lawyer and an ancient historian, receiving a J.D. from Yale Law School, an M.Phil. in Classics from the University of Cambridge, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. Her previous book is Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2006).
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: 1. Informal social control and its limits
2. Law enforcement and its limits
Part II: 3. The expressive effect of statutes
4. Enforcing norms in court
5. Court argument and the shaping of norms
6. Transitional justice in Athens: law, courts, norms
Conclusion
Bibliography.
