At the Dawn of Legal History: Teaching Law in Ancient Mesopotamia

• Authors: Lena Fijałkowska

Title variants

PL

U zarania historii prawa: nauczanie prawa w starożytnej Mezopotamii

Abstracts

PL

Artykuł zarysowuje dzieje nauczania prawa w starożytnej Mezopotamii, przedstawiając zachowane źródła i problemy związane z ich interpretacją. Mimo że wiedza na ten temat wciąż pozostaje fragmentaryczna, możliwe jest odtworzenie, przynajmniej dla niektórych epok, zarówno programu nauczania jak i miejsca zajmowanego w nim przez edukację prawną. Jak się okazuje, typowy dla mezopotamskiej kultury konserwatyzm nie przeszkodził w kształceniu zaskakująco kompetentnych i kreatywnych profesjonalistów.

EN

The article presents an outline of legal teaching in ancient Mesopotamia, with emphasis on the available sources and the difficulties they present. Though our knowledge of this topic is still fragmentary, for several periods the scribal curriculum can be reconstructed, as well as the place of legal education therein. The innate conservatism of Mesopotamian culture notwithstanding, it turns out that the latter managed to produce surprisingly skilled and creative legal professionals.

Keywords

PL

starożytna Mezopotamia; pisarze; edukacja prawnicza; wykształcenie pisarzy; prawo

EN

ancient Mesopotamia; scribes; legal education; scribal curriculum; law

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Iuridica
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 99
• Pages: 51-63

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Lena Fijałkowska

• University of Lodz, Faculty of Law and Administration, Department of the Studies in the Development of State and Law

• https://orcid.org/000000015674703X

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/0208-6069.99.04

Biblioteka Nauki

2120456