Book contents
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Maps
- Part A Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Part B Ancient Greece and China
- Part C India and the Roman Republic
- Part D Rabbinic Law and the Roman Empire
- Section XIII Justice, Equity, and Conflict of Laws
- Section XIV Differential Status
- Section XV Responsibility
- Section XVI Universal Law at the End of Ancient Times
- 43 Universal Law and Human Rights
- 44 The Origins of the Just War Doctrine
- Part E Final Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
43 - Universal Law and Human Rights
from Section XVI - Universal Law at the End of Ancient Times
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2019
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Ancient Legal Thought
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- General Introduction
- Maps
- Part A Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
- Part B Ancient Greece and China
- Part C India and the Roman Republic
- Part D Rabbinic Law and the Roman Empire
- Section XIII Justice, Equity, and Conflict of Laws
- Section XIV Differential Status
- Section XV Responsibility
- Section XVI Universal Law at the End of Ancient Times
- 43 Universal Law and Human Rights
- 44 The Origins of the Just War Doctrine
- Part E Final Thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The Roman jurists and the ancient rabbis shared in common the idea of a universal law. As we saw in , jurists of the Roman Empire such as Gaius and Ulpian believed that there was a law of nature that governed all people and from which criticism of the Roman civil law could be made.
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- Ancient Legal ThoughtEquity, Justice, and Humaneness From Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud, pp. 653 - 665Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019