Conference proceedings on ancient Greek law published

A collection of conference proceedings entitled Ancient Greek Law: Vectors of Unity and Local Idiosyncrasy has now been published, documenting the results of a symposium held in February 2023 at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg ‘Legal Unity and Pluralism’. The fourth volume of the Käte Hamburger Kolleg series, edited by Hans Beck and Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, is dedicated to current developments in research on ancient Greek law.

In recent years, research in this field has become significantly more diversified. Conceptual challenges arising from the separation between the history of law and the ancient history have receded into the background. At the same time, new source discoveries from various parts of the Greek world open up a broader picture and complement the significance that earlier research attributed to the places of study Athens and Crete.

This volume takes up these advances and examines the balance between the unity of Greek law and the local characteristics of individual cities. The contributions shed light on the diversity of legal practices from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period and examine the interplay between local law and legal coherence.

The series

The series “Einheit & Vielfalt im Recht | Legal Unity & Pluralism” is edited by Ulrike Ludwig and Peter Oestmann and is published by Böhlau Verlag.

The series conceptualises legal pluralism as a structural characteristic of law itself. We can therefore speak of a relational and historically changeable association between unity and pluralism in law. The book series intends to comprehensively illuminate these connections in their cultural polymorphy interdisciplinarily, transspatially and interepochally. The volumes are published in German and English and are predominantly open-access.

Bibliographic data

Hans Beck / Kaja Harter-Uibopuu (Hrsg.): Ancient Greek Law. Vectors of Unity and Local Idiosyncrasy, 2025, 272 Seiten, gebunden (Einheit & Vielfalt im Recht / Legal Unity & Pluralism, Bd. 4), Böhlau, Druckausgabe: ISBN: 978-3-412-53311-3, Preis 60,00 EUR; E-Book: ISBN: 978-3-412-53312-0, Open-Access.