Michael C Alexander
Biographic Data
| ID | 173422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael C Alexander |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael C |
| FAMILY NAME | Alexander |
| SIGNATURE | ALEXANDER M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Cities and Labour Immigration
Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael Alexander charts the development of migrant policies over time and situates them within the broader social context. Grounded in multi-city, multi-domain empirical findings, the work provides a f…
Multiple Charges, Unitary Punishment and Rhetorical Strategy in the Quaestiones of the Late Roman Republic
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, speeches of
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE ) became Rome's leading orator after he successfully prosecuted Gaius Verres in 70, unseating Hortensius, the defense speaker in that case, who had previously enjoyed that distinction. In terms of datable speeches, his oratorical career began with his representation of P. Quinctius, the plaintiff in a private suit in the spring of 81, and ended with his invective in the Senate against P. Servilius Isauricus on Ap…
Indicium
The word indicium (“trial”) can refer in Roman procedure to either a private or criminal trial from beginning to end.
Quaestio
Derived from a verb ( quaerere , meaning “to seek”), quaestio refers to various kinds of investigations. In a Roman legal context it can refer to an interrogation of a witness, often with the use of torture, or a judicial inquiry, or a court designed to conduct such an inquiry. In juristic literature it refers to a discussion of a case, either based on real life or from the classroom, as part of education in the law.
Clodius Pulcher, Publius
Publius Clodius Pulcher (93 or 92–52 BCE ), a controversial figures during the last two decades of the Roman Republic, was in many ways an archetypical popularis , though still maintaining ties with some optimates.
Causidicus
Derived from the Latin phrase causam dicere (“to plead a case”), causidicus refers to an advocate, or the person who pleads a case for others (also called a patronus ).
Lex Acilia
One side of the fragmentary tabula Bembina contains the text of a Roman statute ( CIL I 2 583) often called the lex repetundarum , and usually identified with a law proposed by the tribune M’. Acilius Glabrio ( tribunus plebis ca. 122 BCE ; Cic. Verr . 51, 2; Cic. Verr . 1.26; 121–2).
Quaestio perpetua
Quaestio perpetua is the standard modern term for the standing criminal courts of the Late Republic, which lasted, albeit in a diminished form, until the third century CE .
Divinatio
Divinatio is the stage in a Roman criminal trial in which applicants for the role of prosecutor can compete to be chosen to perform this function.
Delatio nominisn
Delatio nominis was the formal initiation of a criminal charge in the presence of a Roman magistrate, possibly by means of the interrogatio legibus (“questioning according to the laws”).
Crimen
Crimen means “charge,” that is, a formal accusation, in a judicial setting, of an offense that affected the community, prosecuted by someone invested with the authority of the state to perform that function (e.g., the nominis delator ), and resulting in a defined penalty if the defendant was found guilty.
Law courts, Greek and Roman
The earliest evidence for judges and law courts in the Greek world is found in the Homeric and Hesiodic poems (seventh century BCE ).
Accusatio
The Romans depended on private citizens to initiate and pursue a criminal charge, since the Roman system of justice had no public prosecutor.
Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic
This chapter contains section titled: Occasions for Oratory The Political Role of The Political Role of Trials Oratory and Advancement Rhetorical Education
Local policies toward migrants as an expression of Host-Stranger relations
This article proposes an analytical framework for comparing and understanding local policy reactions to the settlement of labour migrants, based on the concept of Host-Stranger relations. Labour migrants represent the Stranger in our midst, and local migrant policies are part of a process in which the local authority comes to grips with the presence of these Strangers. Increasingly, European cities are developing their own ways of dealing with th…
The arithmetic of defence policy
The Kosovo campaign of 1999 demonstrated unambiguously the weakness of European military forces. Recognition of the consequences of this lack of capability has put new vigour into the European defence debate. Yet decline in military capability is systemic in every European country. The Helsinki goals will do nothing to address this decline. National defence budgets over the past 15 years have been decreasing in real terms. Even if current aspirat…
The Spirit of Roman Law
Being a Roman Citizen
How Many Roman Senators Were Ever Prosecuted
HOW LIKELY WAS IT that a Roman senator in the Late Republic was ever prosecuted during his lifetime? Lily Ross Taylor implies that it was a very frequent occurrence:1 A man expected from his friends not only support at the polls but aid in the perils of public life, the unending prosecutions brought from political motives by his personal enemies, his inimici, his rivals in the contest for office and for the manifold rewards of public life. P. A. …
The Institutes of Gaius
The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law
Journal Article The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law: Historical Essays Get access Stein Peter, The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law: Historical Essays. London: Hambledon Press, 1988. x, 450 pp. Index. $50.00. Michael C. Alexander Michael C. Alexander University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 35, Issue 1, January …
Analysis of an ancient network
A Historical Commentary on Asconius
The Rise of the Roman Jurists
Local policies toward migrants as an expression of Host-Stranger relations
This article proposes an analytical framework for comparing and understanding local policy reactions to the settlement of labour migrants, based on the concept of Host-Stranger relations. Labour migrants represent the Stranger in our midst, and local migrant policies are part of a process in which the local authority comes to grips with the presence of these Strangers. Increasingly, European cities are developing their own ways of dealing with th…
Praemia in the Quaestiones of the Late Republic
Hortensius' Speech in Defense of Verres
IT IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED that Hortensius failed to deliver a speech for the defense in the actio prima of Verres' trial, and that his client Verres fled into exile before that part of his trial was concluded.' In order to maintain this view, a passage in Quintilian (Inst. 10.1.22-23) must be explained away, for when emphasizing the need for students of rhetoric to study opposing speeches in pairs wherever possible, he mentions a speech of Hortens…
The arithmetic of defence policy
The Kosovo campaign of 1999 demonstrated unambiguously the weakness of European military forces. Recognition of the consequences of this lack of capability has put new vigour into the European defence debate. Yet decline in military capability is systemic in every European country. The Helsinki goals will do nothing to address this decline. National defence budgets over the past 15 years have been decreasing in real terms. Even if current aspirat…
How Many Roman Senators Were Ever Prosecuted
HOW LIKELY WAS IT that a Roman senator in the Late Republic was ever prosecuted during his lifetime? Lily Ross Taylor implies that it was a very frequent occurrence:1 A man expected from his friends not only support at the polls but aid in the perils of public life, the unending prosecutions brought from political motives by his personal enemies, his inimici, his rivals in the contest for office and for the manifold rewards of public life. P. A. …
Hortensius' Speech in Defense of Verres
IT IS GENERALLY ACCEPTED that Hortensius failed to deliver a speech for the defense in the actio prima of Verres' trial, and that his client Verres fled into exile before that part of his trial was concluded.' In order to maintain this view, a passage in Quintilian (Inst. 10.1.22-23) must be explained away, for when emphasizing the need for students of rhetoric to study opposing speeches in pairs wherever possible, he mentions a speech of Hortens…
A Legal and Historical Commentary to Cicero's Oratio Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo
Praemia in the Quaestiones of the Late Republic
A Historical Commentary on Asconius
The Rise of the Roman Jurists
Analysis of an ancient network
The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law
Journal Article The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law: Historical Essays Get access Stein Peter, The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law: Historical Essays. London: Hambledon Press, 1988. x, 450 pp. Index. $50.00. Michael C. Alexander Michael C. Alexander University of Illinois at Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 35, Issue 1, January …
The Institutes of Gaius
How Many Roman Senators Were Ever Prosecuted
HOW LIKELY WAS IT that a Roman senator in the Late Republic was ever prosecuted during his lifetime? Lily Ross Taylor implies that it was a very frequent occurrence:1 A man expected from his friends not only support at the polls but aid in the perils of public life, the unending prosecutions brought from political motives by his personal enemies, his inimici, his rivals in the contest for office and for the manifold rewards of public life. P. A. …
Being a Roman Citizen
The Spirit of Roman Law
The arithmetic of defence policy
The Kosovo campaign of 1999 demonstrated unambiguously the weakness of European military forces. Recognition of the consequences of this lack of capability has put new vigour into the European defence debate. Yet decline in military capability is systemic in every European country. The Helsinki goals will do nothing to address this decline. National defence budgets over the past 15 years have been decreasing in real terms. Even if current aspirat…
Local policies toward migrants as an expression of Host-Stranger relations
This article proposes an analytical framework for comparing and understanding local policy reactions to the settlement of labour migrants, based on the concept of Host-Stranger relations. Labour migrants represent the Stranger in our midst, and local migrant policies are part of a process in which the local authority comes to grips with the presence of these Strangers. Increasingly, European cities are developing their own ways of dealing with th…
Oratory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Republic
This chapter contains section titled: Occasions for Oratory The Political Role of The Political Role of Trials Oratory and Advancement Rhetorical Education
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, speeches of
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 BCE ) became Rome's leading orator after he successfully prosecuted Gaius Verres in 70, unseating Hortensius, the defense speaker in that case, who had previously enjoyed that distinction. In terms of datable speeches, his oratorical career began with his representation of P. Quinctius, the plaintiff in a private suit in the spring of 81, and ended with his invective in the Senate against P. Servilius Isauricus on Ap…
Indicium
The word indicium (“trial”) can refer in Roman procedure to either a private or criminal trial from beginning to end.
Quaestio
Derived from a verb ( quaerere , meaning “to seek”), quaestio refers to various kinds of investigations. In a Roman legal context it can refer to an interrogation of a witness, often with the use of torture, or a judicial inquiry, or a court designed to conduct such an inquiry. In juristic literature it refers to a discussion of a case, either based on real life or from the classroom, as part of education in the law.
Clodius Pulcher, Publius
Publius Clodius Pulcher (93 or 92–52 BCE ), a controversial figures during the last two decades of the Roman Republic, was in many ways an archetypical popularis , though still maintaining ties with some optimates.
Causidicus
Derived from the Latin phrase causam dicere (“to plead a case”), causidicus refers to an advocate, or the person who pleads a case for others (also called a patronus ).
Lex Acilia
One side of the fragmentary tabula Bembina contains the text of a Roman statute ( CIL I 2 583) often called the lex repetundarum , and usually identified with a law proposed by the tribune M’. Acilius Glabrio ( tribunus plebis ca. 122 BCE ; Cic. Verr . 51, 2; Cic. Verr . 1.26; 121–2).
Quaestio perpetua
Quaestio perpetua is the standard modern term for the standing criminal courts of the Late Republic, which lasted, albeit in a diminished form, until the third century CE .
Divinatio
Divinatio is the stage in a Roman criminal trial in which applicants for the role of prosecutor can compete to be chosen to perform this function.
Delatio nominisn
Delatio nominis was the formal initiation of a criminal charge in the presence of a Roman magistrate, possibly by means of the interrogatio legibus (“questioning according to the laws”).
Crimen
Crimen means “charge,” that is, a formal accusation, in a judicial setting, of an offense that affected the community, prosecuted by someone invested with the authority of the state to perform that function (e.g., the nominis delator ), and resulting in a defined penalty if the defendant was found guilty.
Law courts, Greek and Roman
The earliest evidence for judges and law courts in the Greek world is found in the Homeric and Hesiodic poems (seventh century BCE ).
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