Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions: From the Ancient World to the Modern Nation State [Hardcover]

1.?More than Marginal: The Complex Work of Framing Devices? Part 1: Pulling Together??2. The Preambles to Archaic Greek Interstate Treaties at Olympia: A Study in the Diffusion of Diplomatic Language? 3. Prefaces of Legal Documents in Late Imperial China??4. The Conservative Case for Warrior Law: Legal Change in Medieval Japan? 5. Bodies of Law in Early Medieval England and Scotland? 6. Preface to the Indian Penal Code, as Originally Drafted (October 1837)? Part 2: Breaking Apart??7. (Re-)framing Hammurabis Laws: Worldbuilding with Prologues and Epilogues in the Ancient Near East? 8. Prefaces in the Legal Texts of the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus? 9. No Mere Metaphor: The State of Nature as Framing Device? 10. Jefferson's Preambles, Prefaces, and Persistence? 11. Martens' Clause and Ambiguity at the Birth of Modern Humanitarian Law? 12. Searching for Meaning In the Utah Constitution's Free Market Preamble

This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices. It offers new ways to consider the significance of framing apparatuses regarding how and why they are created, remembered, forgotten, utilized, and recovered within legal traditions.

Laura Culbertson (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Near Eastern Studies) is Professor of Middle East Studies at American Public University.

Susan Longfield Karr (Ph.D., University of Chicago, History) is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.

This collection explores prefaces, prologues, paratexts, and other types of framing devices. Across world history, these devices have introduced the law, articulated its context and audience, identified the basis of legal and moral authority, critiqued existing conditions, or even tried to restore something that never was. Scribes, lawmakers, and legal lC.