1st Edition
Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions From the Ancient World to the Modern Nation State
1 More than marginal: the complex work of framing devices
Laura Culbertson and Susan Longfield Karr
PART I Pulling together
2 The preambles to archaic Greek interstate treaties at Olympia: a study in the diffusion of diplomatic language
Nicholas D. Cross
3 Prefaces of legal documents in Late Imperial China
Frédéric Constant
4 The conservative case for warrior law: legal change in medieval Japan
Christoffer Bovbjerg
5 Bodies of law in early medieval England and Scotland
Andrew Rabin
6 Promises and Perils of Macaulay’s Preface to the Indian Penal Code
Elizabeth Lhost
PART II Breaking apart
7 (Re-)framing Hammurabi’s laws: worldbuilding with prologues and epilogues in the Ancient Near East
Laura Culbertson
8 Prefaces in the legal texts of the crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus
Adam M. Bishop
9 No mere metaphor: the state of nature as a framing device
Susan Longfield Karr
10 Jefferson’s preambles, prefaces, and persistence
Matthew Crow
11 Martens Clause and ambiguity at the birth of modern humanitarian law
Daimeon Shanks-Dumont
12 Searching for meaning in the Utah Constitution’s Free Market Preamble
Jorge L. Contreras
Biography
Laura Culbertson (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Near Eastern Studies) is Professor of Middle East Studies at American Public University.
Susan Longfield Karr (Ph.D., University of Chicago, History) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.
