Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions

1. More than Marginal: The Complex Work of Framing Devices Part 1: Pulling Together 2. The Preambles to Archaic Greek Interstate Treaties at Olympia: A Study in the Diffusion of Diplomatic Language 3. Prefaces of Legal Documents in Late Imperial China 4. The Conservative Case for Warrior Law: Legal Change in Medieval Japan 5. Bodies of Law in Early Medieval England and Scotland 6. Preface to the Indian Penal Code, as Originally Drafted (October 1837) Part 2: Breaking Apart 7. (Re-)framing Hammurabi's Laws: Worldbuilding with Prologues and Epilogues in the Ancient Near East 8. Prefaces in the Legal Texts of the Crusader Kingdoms of Jerusalem and Cyprus 9. No Mere Metaphor: The State of Nature as Framing Device 10. Jefferson's Preambles, Prefaces, and Persistence 11. Martens' Clause and Ambiguity at the Birth of Modern Humanitarian Law 12. Searching for Meaning In the Utah Constitution's Free Market Preamble