6 x 9. 534 pgs. 40 tables, 4 maps. (2005) Cloth 978-0-472-11053-7 $90.00S  Available Add to Cart Search this Book's Content About the Book Praise Look Inside Subjects Classical Studies--Roman / History / Law / Political Science

The Laws of the Roman People
Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic

Callie Williamson

Winner: 2005 James Henry Breasted Prize given by the American Historical Association for the best book in English on any period before 1000 A.D.

"This intellectually powerful and highly original book examines Roman expansion through the lens of public lawmaking, the process of negotiation and debate by which citizen assemblies resolved conflict and expressed consensus."
---American Historical Association

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About the Book

For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to publicly forge resolutions to issues that might otherwise have been unmanageable. Callie Williamson's comprehensive new study finds that the key to Rome's survival and growth during the most formative period of empire, roughly 350 to 44 B.C.E., lies in its hitherto enigmatic public lawmaking assemblies which helped extend Roman influence and control. The author bases her rigorous and innovative work on the entire body of surviving laws preserved in ancient reports of proposed and enacted legislation from these public assemblies.

Callie Williamson holds a Ph.D. in Roman history from the University of London and is practicing law in North Carolina.