Ceiitumviri to set aside the will and recover the estate, of which Curius had entered into thepossession him; and I grieve because there was taken from me, not, as many thought, a rival,who stood in a partner and companion in a glorious calling; for, if we are told that, in a ...
Some of the earliest lawyers were seen in ancient Greece and Rome. Back then, they were known as “orators” and they would often plead a case on behalf of their friends. However, they weren’t allowed to charge a fee and it was difficult for them to establish a formal profession. It...
However, it was against the law for orators to receive payment for their services and therefore law only became an actual profession when this law was abolished in Ancient Rome – around 200BC! When the law profession was legalized, the criteria tobecome a lawyerbecame more difficult than just...
The Phoenicians were the great merchants of antiquity, in fact the greatest mercantile people of all time; the most enterprising race of explorers and navigators the world has ever known, not excepting even our own restless Anglo-Saxon race; the people from whom Greece and Rome derived the lett...
glory of ancient Thebes of the Hundred Gates, yet show the magnificent granite columns erected ages ago, before Rome was, before Homer sung, before Athens had a name. And supposed to have been successfully concealed from the foreign spoliator, the tombs of the Pharaohs in the Libyan Hills ...
86 The ‘Pinochet moment’, together with the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, signified the culmination of hopes in the 1990s that, with the end of the Cold War, the system of international law had entered a new phase, although, as Sands correctly points out, the tension ...