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3 Critical Analysis L. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/cclaysolw3 and id is 1 raw text is: The Varieties of Ancient Legal History Today Clifford Ando* Abstract The article surveys, contextualizes and explicates the arguments of the eight papers featured in the forum on The New Ancient Legal History in 3:1 Critical Analysis of Law (2016). These are heady days for ancient legal history.' In Greek,2 Roman,3 Chinese,4 Hindus Is- lamicf and Jewish law, new theoretical approaches, newly published primary materials, and new scholarly resources are transforming fields of inquiry.' The papers included in this section are intended as a celebration of the creativity now sweeping the field. The coverage is exemplary rather than comprehensive: the essays serve to illustrate the excel- lence and interest of the work now being produced, not to define or demonstrate its scope. In what follows, I therefore advance no holistic claims in relation to ancient legal history as a field of inquiry, either in respect of method or the critical potential of its re- sults. Instead, I offer an account of the achievement of each article and seek to articulate themes engaged by them severally, in the hope that doing so will enhance their accessibil- ity to readers from outside the disciplines in which each originates. David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor; Professor of Classics, History and Law and in the College, University of Chicago. 1 The citations below are intended both as illustrative rather than exhaustive, and as supplementary to the information conveyed elsewhere in this introduction and by the articles in this issue. 2 For bibliography, see A New Working Bibliography of Ancient Greek Law (7th-4th centuries BC) (Mark Sundahl et al. eds., 2011). The same editors produce a website that keeps the bibliography up to date. NOMOI: A Bibliographical Web Site for the Study of Ancient Greek Law (http://www.sfu.ca/nomoi/). 3 The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (Paul du Plessis et al. eds., 2016); Handbuch des Romischen Privatrechts (Ulrike Babusiaux et al. eds., in progress); see for now Handbuch des Romischen Privatrechts (http://www.rwi.uzh.ch/lehreforschung/alphabetisch/babusiaux/HRP2.html). 4 Anthony J. Barbieri-Low & Robin D.S. Yates, Law, State, and Society in Early Imperial China: A Study with Critical Edition and Translation of the Legal Texts from Zhangjiashan Tomb no. 247 (2015). 5 Donald R. Davis, Jr., The Spirit of Hindu Law (2010); Timothy Lubin et al., Hinduism and Law: An Introduction (2010). 6 See, e.g., Aron Zysow, The Economy of Certainty: An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory (2013); Ahmed El Shamsy, The Canonization of Islamic Law (2013). 7 The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law (Caroline Humfress et al. eds., in progress). ISSN 2291-9732

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