L’altérité comme passerelle juridique

In the Ancient Near East, foreigners did not carry their civic membership and personal guarantees outside their city, which made them more vulnerable. Merchants, particularly exposed to these disadvantages because of their activities, resorted to various remedies to protect both their person and the...

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Main Author:	Sophie Démare-Lafont
Format:	Article
Language:	fra
Published:	L’Harmattan 2018-10-01
Series:	Droit et Cultures
Subjects:	City of Emar Legal protection of foreign merchants Ancient Near East Contractual immunities Law of Nations
Online Access:	http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/4681

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spelling	doaj-94e42f1c8efd4e2b84e02e8158520ed42020-11-24T21:12:41ZfraL’HarmattanDroit et Cultures0247-97882109-94212018-10-0176107116L’altérité comme passerelle juridiqueSophie Démare-LafontIn the Ancient Near East, foreigners did not carry their civic membership and personal guarantees outside their city, which made them more vulnerable. Merchants, particularly exposed to these disadvantages because of their activities, resorted to various remedies to protect both their person and their goods. Along with immunities granted by international treaties or direct negotiations with local rulers, a kind of «law of nations» developed in some commercial towns of Syria in the middle of the second millennium BC, especially at Emar (Syria). The numerous deeds unearthed on this site depict an open society where locals and foreigners lived side by side under different rules. Legal discrimination appears as a means of acknowledging alterity without belittlement, of making separate communities coexist without organizing the domination of one over the other.http://journals.openedition.org/droitcultures/4681City of EmarLegal protection of foreign merchantsAncient Near EastContractual immunitiesLaw of Nations
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title	L’altérité comme passerelle juridique
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description	In the Ancient Near East, foreigners did not carry their civic membership and personal guarantees outside their city, which made them more vulnerable. Merchants, particularly exposed to these disadvantages because of their activities, resorted to various remedies to protect both their person and their goods. Along with immunities granted by international treaties or direct negotiations with local rulers, a kind of «law of nations» developed in some commercial towns of Syria in the middle of the second millennium BC, especially at Emar (Syria). The numerous deeds unearthed on this site depict an open society where locals and foreigners lived side by side under different rules. Legal discrimination appears as a means of acknowledging alterity without belittlement, of making separate communities coexist without organizing the domination of one over the other.
topic	City of Emar Legal protection of foreign merchants Ancient Near East Contractual immunities Law of Nations
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L’altérité comme passerelle juridique

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