@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {6768},
      author = {Ando, Clifford},
      title = {The Rise of the Indigenous Jurists},
      journal = {Law and History Review},
      address = {2023-05-26},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {Numerous Roman grants to local communities of the right to  use local law survive in contemporaneous copies starting in  the second century BCE. Contemporaneous with these grants  of autonomy, Rome urged institutional changes that  reconstituted local elites as aristocracies of office. By  contrast, evidence that individuals identified themselves  as experts in local law survives in bulk only starting in  the second century CE. The paper urges that the  superimposition of Roman courts as courts of the second  instance created a role in local polities for expertise in  local law in mediation with these Roman courts, and that  local elites sought to monopolize this role and the  technocratic prestige that it brought.},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/6768},
}