Routledge, 2007. — 290 p. — ISBN10: 0-415-42760-6. The main aim of my study is to investigate the physical environment of and participants in the courtrooms of Rome between approximately 31 BC and AD 166. A conscious barrier has been constructed by choosing the year of Octavian’s defeat of Antony as the terminus post quem, which thereby excludes Ciceronian period evidence....
Routledge, 2000. — 208 p. — (Routledge Classical Monographs). — ISBN: 0-203-01244-5; ISBN: 0-203-70823-7; ISBN: 0-415-17320-5. In a certain sense this work is a sequel to the writer’s previous investigations of humanitas (1980, 1996). While exploring that theme in a strictly criminal law context it occurred to me that Roman human rights as a whole might usefully expand the area...
Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2018. — 334 p. — ISBN: 978-3-8253-6955-2. Paul Koschaker (Klagenfurt, 1879 – Basel, 1951) is renowned as being one of the most influential legal historians and Romanists of the first half of the 20th century. Yet his extensive and eclectic fields of research included subjects such as the laws of antiquity, notably cuneiform law, and...
Philadelphia: The American philosophical Society, 1953. — 479 p. The idea of preparing a Dictionary of Roman Law in encyclopedic forin came to my mind soon after my arrival in the United States, as I became more familiar with the status of Roman Law in American schools and legal writing. The idea grew further while I was working with my friend, Professor A. Arthur Schiller of...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 303 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-871927-4. This Roman Law of Obligations comprises notes of lectures given at the University of Edinburgh in 1982 by Peter Birks, who was then Professor. of Civil Law in the Scottish capital. These notes, his own, were found in his archives some years after his death and are now being published. The rekindled grief for all...
Cambridge University Press 1908, repr. 1970. — 754 p. — ISBN: 521 07772 9. The following chapters are an attempt to state, in systematic form, the most characteristic part of the most characteristic intellectual product of Rome. There is scarcely a problem which can present itself, in any branch of the law, the solution of which may not be affected by the fact that one of the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2007. — 236 p. This book is an important contribution to the current lively debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world. This debate, which was initiated by the work of John Crook in the 1960's, has had a profound impact upon the study of law and history and has created sharply divided opinions on the extent to which law...
Cornell University Press, 1967. — 350 p. — (Aspects of Greek and Roman life). — ISBN: 9780801492730. It is about Roman law in its social context, an attempt to strengthen the bridge between two spheres of discourse about ancient Rome by using the institutions of the law to enlarge understanding of the society & bringing the evidence of the social & economic facts to bear on the...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 753 p. — ISBN: 978-0-198728-68-9. The Handbook is intended to survey the landscape of contemporary research and chart principal directions of future inquiry. Its aim is to bring to bear upon Roman legal study the full range of intellectual resources of contemporary legal history, from comparison to popular constitutionalism, from international...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — xxi+506 p. — (Classical resources series / American Philological Association; no.5). — ISBN: 0-19-516185-8; 0-19-516186-6. This Casebook introduces the area of Roman law governing the most personal and urgent problems that free Romans normally confronted: the marital relationship, the power of fathers over their children, and the devolution of...
Routledge, 2002. — 374 p. — ISBN 0–415–15240–2; ISBN 0–415–15241–0; ISBN 0-203-44252-0; ISBN 0-203-75076-4. It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook exploits fully the rich legal material of the imperial period – from...
Duckworth & Co. Ltd, 1993. — 266 p. — ISBN: 0-7156-2428-8. The Theodosian Code has a distinctive place in a system of imperial rule which had evolved over four centuries and its contents must be understood within that context. Law-giving as a means of communication and control inherited from emperors of the first and second centuries AD continued to build on its heritage under...
Basel: Schweighauserische Universitarts Buchdruckerei. 1864. - 26 S. Wahrend das formelle Notherbenrecht, wie es bis zur Zeit der classischen Juristen sich entwickelt hat, durch Monographien von anerkannem Ruf in allen Hauptpunkten hinlandlich festgestellt ist, gehen uber die Grundlagen der verwandten Lehre des Pflichttheilsrechts die Meinungen mehr noch aus einander, als es...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 371 p. — ISBN: 978-0-19-979111-8 — ISBN: 978-0-19-979113-2. Rather than expounding the subject of Roman property law as a collection of doctrines and rules, this casebook presents the reader with excerpts of Roman legal argument to illustrate the articulation and application of law to specific fact situations - “Cases,” consisting of brief...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 540 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-89564-4. This Companion brings together in a single volume essays that reflect the wide range of modern scholarship on Roman law. A conventional textbook on Roman private law would explain in turn the law of persons (family, slavery, citizenship); property (ownership and possession and how they are acquired and...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 165 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History). — ISBN: 0-511-03568-3 Roman Law in Context explains how Roman law worked for those who lived by it, by viewing it in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. The book discusses three main areas of Roman law and life: the family and inheritance; property and the use of land;...
Cambridge University Press, 1994. — 234 p. — ISBN: ISBN 0-521-44199-4 In The Roman Law Tradition an international team of distinguished legal scholars explore the various ways in which Roman law has affected and continues to affect patterns of legal decision-making throughout the world. Roman law began as the local law of a small Italian city. It grew to dominate the legal...
Wayne State University Press, 1987. — 437 p. — ISBN: 0-8143-1809-6. Originally published in Hebrew by The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1983. Historians are unanimous in recognizing the important contribution of Roman law to the evolution of the attitudes adopted by non-Jewish society towards Jews since the second century, yet research in this field has been...
Springer, 2012. — 366 p. — ISBN: 3642293107 Roman law forms a vital part of the intellectual background of many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe, Latin America, East Asia and other parts of the world. Knowledge of Roman law, therefore, constitutes an essential component of a sound legal education as well as the education of the student of history. This...
Springer, 2015. — 339 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-12267-0; ISBN: 978-3-319-12268-7. The guiding aim of this book is to introduce law students to the history, fundamental principles and major institutions of Roman law. There are few, if any, legal subjects that can properly be studied without some grasp of their historical context, least of all Roman law, where the student has to take...
Routledge, 2003. — 480 p. Roman law forms an important part of the intellectual background of many legal systems currently in force in continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world. This book traces the historical development of Roman law from the earliest period of Roman history up to and including Justinian's codification in the sixth century AD. It examines...
IDC Publishers, 2007. — 456 p. — (Law in the Documents of the Judaean Desert). — ISBN: 978-90-04-14974-8. The research presented in this volume was done during an appointment as Ph.D. student at the Faculty of Law (department of Legal History) of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Having obtained MAs in both Classical Languages and Semitic Languages, and at the time completing an...
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 256 p. Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in an interdisciplinary manner whereby Roman law is not merely seen as a set of abstract concepts devoid of any background, but as a body of law...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 461 p. — ISBN: 0-19-815280-9. Study of the institution of ancient Roman judicial representation based on the material of Cicero. Advocacy is a feature of most developed legal systems including, notably, those of Britain, Europe, and North America. It played a major part in the legal system of ancient Rome, and Cicero was recognized both in his...
Mouton Publishers, 1978. — 606 p. — ISBN 90 279 7744 5. In the preparation of a teaching manual and desk book on the mechanisms involved in the development of the Roman law three elements have been deemed essential by the author. First, the substance of the volume comprises addition of primary texts, in English translation. Second, a commentary presents the views of scholars,...
Oxford University Press, 1946. — 375 p. The present work is intended neither as an educational manual nor as a work of reference, but as a book to read. In it I have endeavoured to present the conception of Roman legal science and its growth which I have acquired by forty years of study of the sources, but I have been at pains not only to present that conception in readable...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 149 p. This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world’s leading legal historians. Peter Stein’s masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is...
Routledge, 1993. — 187 p. Roman law, one of the key legal systems from which modern European law is derived, is also one of the binding factors par excellence within the European community. A Short History of Roman Law presents a brief, accurate and up-to-date survey of the history of Roman law. Olga Tellegen-Couperus divides its thousand-year-history into four periods, each...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 482 p. — (Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law). — ISBN 978–0–19–874445–0. The focus of this book is on the way in which the Roman emperor became a judge, emerging as a ‘supreme court’ for the Roman Empire through a process of persuasion and assertion, beginning from the Late Republic and ending with the Severan period. Through the...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 304 p. — (Europe's Legacy in the Modern World). — ISBN10: 1350058734, ISBN13: 978-1350058736. Roman law is widely considered to be the foundation of European legal culture and an inherent source of unity within European law. Roman Law and the Idea of Europe explores the emergence of this idea of Roman law as an idealized shared heritage, tracing its...
London & New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. - 160 p. The sketch of a great historical process presented in the following chapters is based on lectures elivered in the spring of 1909 as an advanced historical course on the invitation of the University of London. We have tried to characterise the principal epochs of development of Roman Law in Western Europe.
Oxford University Pres, 2015. — 352 p. — (Oxford Early Christian Studies). Byzantine church law remains terra incognita to most scholars in the western academy. In this work, David Wagschal provides a fresh examination of this neglected but fascinating world. Confronting the traditional narratives of decline and primitivism that have long discouraged study of the subject,...
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1881. — 190 p. The definition of a Condiction given by Gaius stands thus: "appelantur in personam actiones , quibus dare fierive oportere intendinmus condictionnes," and this is repeated , with the substitution of facere for fieri , by Justinian.
University of Michigan, 2005. — 535 p. — ISBN13: 978-0-472-11053-7. This study examines the role of public law in enabling the Romans to confront the otherwise insurmountable challenges of expansion across Italy, especially the absorption of conquered peoples, during the period from roughly 350 to 44. For centuries, the Romans developed a community consensus on the passage of...
Oxford University Press, 2004. — 113 p. — (Clarendon Law Lectures). — ISBN: 0-19-829913-3. The End of an Era: Transformation of Scholarship in Roman Law. The Transition from Civil Law to Civil Code in Germany: Dawn of a New Era. A Change in Perspective: European Private Law and its Historical Foundations. Final Observation.
Juta & Co, Ltd, 1992. — 1241 p. The present book is based on seven years' experience of teaching Roman law at the University ot Cape Town. The present book deals specifically with the Roman roots of the civilian tradition. Its subject matter is purely the substantive private law.
Juta & Co, Ltd, 1992. — 1241 p. The present book is based on seven years' experience of teaching Roman law at the University ot Cape Town. The present book deals specifically with the Roman roots of the civilian tradition. Its subject matter is purely the substantive private law.
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