The People and the Law : Demos and Nomos -- Making Law and Mending the Constitution -- Judges and Lawmakers -- "Unlawful Action" (Paranoma) and the Case of the Arginousai Generals -- Privileged Characters: Aristocrates' Shield for Charidemos -- Outrage : The Case against Androtion -- Breaking the Bargain : The Case against Leptines' Law -- The Aftermath of Chaironeia -- The Crown Case Comes to Trial -- Law's Measure
Summary
"Classicist Carawan explores changes in the judicial review of laws in ancient democratic Athens over time. Reassessing the accumulated evidence, he constructs a new model of how the courts shaped Athenian lawmaking. He also compares the judiciary of ancient Athens to that of the modern United States"-- Provided by publisher