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  3. Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans
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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
June 2012
Print publication year:
2010
Online ISBN:
9780511780813
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780813
Subjects:
Ancient History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General)
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Book description

In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the rest of Roman life. Emphasising basic concepts, he recounts its historical development and focuses in particular on the later Republic and early centuries of the Roman Empire. The volume is designed as an introductory work, with brief chapters that will be accessible to college students with little knowledge of legal matters or Roman antiquity. The text is also free of technical language and Latin terminology. It can be used in courses on Roman law, Roman history, or comparative law, but it will also serve as a useful reference for more advanced students and scholars.

Reviews

'… Riggsby has successfully undertaken a near impossible task: to explain, in a little over 200 pages, a highly sophisticated, complex and sometimes idiosyncratic system of law. It will be most useful as a first text for students of Roman law, prior to commencing their course (summer reading perhaps). … A work such as this will draw more (not fewer) people to the pleasures of Roman law, and for this Professor Riggsby deserves both congratulations and thanks.'

Source: Cambridge Law Review

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Contents

Contents
  • 1 - Introduction
    pp 1-10
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References
Further Reading
Primary Texts
Watson, Alan (ed.) (1998). The Digest of Justinian. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press. [English]
Watson, Alan (1985). The Digest of Justinian. Philadelphia:University of Pennsylvania Press. [English and Latin]
Kolbert, C. (tr.) (1979). The Digest of Roman law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult. New York: Penguin.
Robinson, O., andGordon, W. (eds.) (1988). The Institutes of Gaius. Ithaca, N.Y.:Cornell University Press.
Crawford, M. (ed.) (1996). Roman Statutes. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Supplement 64.
Modern Scholarship
Alexander, Michael (1990). Trials in the Late Roman Republic, 149 bc to 50 bc. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Berger, Adolf (1991). Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society.
Buckland, W. W. (1969). The Roman Law of Slavery: The Condition of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian. New York: AMS Press.
Borkowski, J. A. (2005). Textbook on Roman Law. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Crook, J. A. (1967). Law and Life of Rome. London: Thames & Hudson.
Crook, J. A. (1995). Legal Advocacy in the Roman World. London: Duckworth.
Frier, B. (1985). The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Frier, B. (1989). A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press.
Frier, B. and McGinn, Thomas (2004). A Casebook on Roman Family Law. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
Gardner, Jane F. (1986). Women in Roman Law and Society. London: Croom Helm.
Gardner, Jane F. (1998). Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life. New York: Clarendon Press.
Grubbs, Judith Evans (1995). Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press.
Grubbs, Judith Evans (2002). Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood. London and New York: Routledge.
Johnston, David (1988). The Roman Law of Trusts. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Johnston, David (1999). Roman Law in Context. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Nicholas, Barry (1962). An Introduction to Roman Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Nippel, Wilfried (1995). Public Order in Ancient Rome. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Riggsby, Andrew M. (1999). Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press.
Robinson, O. F. (1997). The Sources of Roman Law: Problems and Methods for Ancient Historians. London and New York: Routledge.
Saller, Richard P. (1994). Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Tellegen-Couperus, O. E. (1993). A Short History of Roman Law. London and New York: Routledge.
Watson, Alan (1995). The Spirit of Roman Law. Athens: University of Georgia Press.

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