Faculty Bibliography
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Adriaan Lanni, Arguing from 'Precedent': Modern perspectives on Athenian practice, in The Law and the Courts of Ancient Greece 159 (Lene Rubinstein & Edward M. Harris eds., 2004).
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The Athenians praised the Areopagus and the other homicide courts as the city's finest tribunals, seeing in their unusual procedures, particularly the relevancy rule, a greater emphasis on legal argument and less vulnerability to influence by the emotional appeals or social standing of litigants. A distinctive conception of justice, and not only elite competition or social drama, was thus a part of Athenian judicial practice.
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