After the Empire: Judicial Review and Interstate Relations in the Age of Demosthenes 354-22 BCE

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Abstract

This chapter explores the legal arguments and ideas in the trial against the honorary decree for Charidemus as a case study of Athenian interstate relations in the fourth century bce. The decree was challenged in court through a procedure of judicial review (graphē paranomon). The chapter sets the discussion of the legal arguments against its institutional background. It then analysed the juridical interpretation of the Athenian statutes at the trial, and their wider implication for the use of public honours to foster Athenian hegemonic ambitions in the aftermath of the Social War.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationEmpire and Legal Thought
Subtitle of host publicationIdeas and Institutions from Antiquity to Modernity
EditorsEdward Cavanagh
Place of PublicationLeiden - Boston
Chapter3
Pages69-104
Number of pages36
ISBN (Electronic)9789004431249
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 12 May 2020

Publication series

NameStudies in the History of International Law,
PublisherBrill
Volume41/16

Keywords

  • Judicial review
  • Athens
  • Athenian Democracy
  • Demosthenes
  • Attic Orators
  • Social War
  • Honorary decrees
  • honour
  • Legal interpretation

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