2015 Georges Lecture: Ancient Athens and Institutional Design

The Tulane Department of Classical Studies presents the Dennis A Georges Lecture in Hellenic Culture

Ancient Athens and Institutional Design: Community Justice and Transitional Justice in Comparative Perspective

Dr. Adriaan Lanni (Harvard Law School)

Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7PM in the Freeman Auditorium (205 Woldenberg Art Center)

ADRIAAN LANNI is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where she teaches Criminal Law, Criminal Adjudication, and the Criminal Justice Workshop, as well as a variety of legal history courses on ancient Greek and Roman law. Her publications include Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens (CUP 2006) and several articles on ancient law and the modern criminal jury. She is currently completing a book manuscript, Law and Order in Ancient Athens, for Cambridge University Press. Before joining Harvard Law School in 2005, she was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Dana Fabe of the Alaska Supreme Court. She received a B.A., summa cum laude, in Classical Civilization from Yale University, an M.Phil. in Classics from Cambridge University, where she was a Marshall Scholar, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan.

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