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    Cicero was a famous Roman orator and lawyer during the late Roman Republic. He argued his first legal case in 81 BC, successfully defending a man charged with parricide. One of Cicero's most important works was De Legibus, a dialogue where he discussed different concepts of law with Atticus and Quintus. Cicero defined three kinds of law: lex caelestis (divine law), lex naturae (natural law) and lex vulgus (positive law set by people).

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    Cicero was a famous Roman orator and lawyer during the late Roman Republic. He argued his first legal case in 81 BC, successfully defending a man charged with parricide. One of Cicero's most important works was De Legibus, a dialogue where he discussed different concepts of law with Atticus and Quintus. Cicero defined three kinds of law: lex caelestis (divine law), lex naturae (natural law) and lex vulgus (positive law set by people).

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    Cicero was a famous Roman orator and lawyer during the late Roman Republic. He argued his first legal case in 81 BC, successfully defending a man charged with parricide. One of Cicero's most important works was De Legibus, a dialogue where he discussed different concepts of law with Atticus and Quintus. Cicero defined three kinds of law: lex caelestis (divine law), lex naturae (natural law) and lex vulgus (positive law set by people).

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    THE LEGAL PHILOSOPHY OF CICERO

    Cicero (106-43 B.C.) is


    known as the greatest
    orator of the late Roman
    Republic. A brilliant
    lawyer and the first of his
    family to achieve Roman
    office, Cicero was one of
    the leading political
    figures of the era of Julius
    Caesar, Pompey, Marc
    Antony and Octavian.

    Cicero publicly argued


    his first legal case in 81
    B.C., successfully
    defending a man
    charged with parricide.
    Works:

    • De Republica (On the


    Commonwealth)

    • De Legibus (On the


    Laws)
    De Legibus
    A dialogue written
    by Cicero during the last
    years of Roman
    Republic. Discussion
    among Cicero, Atticus
    Pomponius and Quintus.
    Attempt writings to
    interpret Roman History
    in terms of Greek
    political theory.
    What is Law?

    • In order to be called law, a command must be argued for,


    justified, both in terms of its actual correspondence with
    the well-being of the community and in terms of the
    purposes of those who enacted it (which are in turn
    evaluated rhetorically, according to what the lawgivers
    "showed the people"). The very essence of law thus involves
    a practice of justification.
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    KINDS OF LAW

    Lex caelestis
    Lex naturae
    Lex vulgus
    Lex caelestis – divine law; true law, the heavenly
    law wherein we find the right reason
    Lex naturae – natural law; law that distinguishes
    the just and unjust; punishes the wicked and
    protects the good
    Lex vulgus – positive law;
    crowd’s definition of law
    KINDS OF LAW

    Lex caelestis
    Lex naturae
    Lex vulgus

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