Crook J.A. Legal advocacy in the Roman world

Cornell University Press, 1995. — 228 p. — ISBN: 0-8014-3158-1.The function of advocacy
Advocacy and legal orders
Rhetoric in modern discussions
(i) Proof
(ii) Philosophy: La Nouvelle Rhetorique and other developments
Advocacy in present-day courts
Taking advocacy seriously
Prior Greco-Roman questions
For comparison: advocacy at Athens and in the Hellenistic world
The two Roman legal professions
The boundaries of the subject: the legal order broadly conceived
Advocacy in the papyri: the under-exploited source
Excursus: petitions and the 'Narratio' documents
IV. Advocacy in the traditional material
The uses ofadvocacy to client and advocate
Usus iudiciorum, the practice of the courts
Excursuses:
Terminology
The advocate as 'representative'
The controuersiae
Quintilian
The historical record