Some of the papers included were first presented at a seminar series held in the Classics Department at Newcastle University in 1997-1998.
Cicero's courtroom speeches are the most significant examples we have of the art of the ancient Roman advocate. This book takes the speeches seriously as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, aiming to set them in context of the Roman legal system, and to compare th…
Austin Sarat and William L.F. Felstiner's new book, based on a pioneering and intensive study of actual conferences between divorce lawyers and their clients, provides an unprecedented behind-the-scenes description of the lawyer-client relationship, and calls into question much …
Based on over 100 lawyer-client conferences at which the authors were observers, this book charts the complicated and shifting relationships between the two as they work out the strategy and tactics of divorce. It also examines the nature of the marriage and why marriages fail, …