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The Significance Of The Corpus Juris Civilis: Matilda Of Canossa And The Revival Of Roman Law, Thomas J. Mcsweeney, Michéle K. Spike

Thomas J. McSweeney

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The Corpus Juris Civilis: A Guide To Its History And Use, Frederick W. Dingledy

Frederick W. Dingledy

The Corpus Juris Civilis is indispensable for Roman law research. It is a vital pillar of modern law in many European nations, and influential in other countries. Scholars and lawyers still refer to it today. This valuable publication, however, may seem impenetrable at first, and references to it can be hard to decipher or detect. This guide provides a history of the Corpus Juris Civilis and the forms it has taken, states why it is still an important resource today, and offers some tips and tools for research using it.

The Corpus Juris Civilis: A Guide To Its History And Use, Frederick W. Dingledy

Library Staff Publications

The Corpus Juris Civilis is indispensable for Roman law research. It is a vital pillar of modern law in many European nations, and influential in other countries. Scholars and lawyers still refer to it today. This valuable publication, however, may seem impenetrable at first, and references to it can be hard to decipher or detect. This guide provides a history of the Corpus Juris Civilis and the forms it has taken, states why it is still an important resource today, and offers some tips and tools for research using it.

Books Received, Georgia Journal Of International And Comparative Law

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Some Comparative Legal History: Robbery And Brigandage, Bernard S. Jackson

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.

Law Reform In The Ancient World: Did The Emperor Augustus Succeed Or Fail In His Morals Legislation?, Charles J. Reid Jr.

William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice

This is an Article with a dual purpose. First, it is concerned with the process of law reform: how do we judge a given reform’s success or failure? Do we adopt strictly linear metrics? Or do we look at nonlinear impacts? For example, in the campaign against tobacco, do we judge it a success because it has reduced cigarette smoking? Or because it reduced the political power of the tobacco companies?

Secondly, in this Article, I apply this complex means of analyzing law reform to the Emperor Augustus’s morals legislation. Legal historians have typically regarded Augustus’s morals legislation as having …

The Significance Of The Corpus Juris Civilis: Matilda Of Canossa And The Revival Of Roman Law, Thomas J. Mcsweeney, Michéle K. Spike

Faculty Publications

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Alan Watson's Controversial Contribution To Legal Scholarship, Gary Francione

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Intervention In Roman Law: A Case Study In The Hazards Of Legal Scholarship, Peter A. Appel

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

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Wilhelm Kroll's Preface To Justinian's Novels: An English Translation, Timothy G. Kearley, David J.D. Miller

Timothy G. Kearley

Justice Frederick H. Blume, attorney and long-time Justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court, single-handedly translated Justinian's Code and Novels in the early twentieth century. His is the only English translation of the Code to have been made from the Latin version accepted as most authoritative. Using Blume's papers, this article describes, among other things: how Blume created the extensive Roman law library needed for his translation; his approach to translation; and his collaboration with Clyde Pharr on Pharr's "Corpus Juris Romani" series. The article also describes the author's editing and digitization of Justice Blume's translation.

Emprendimiento Y Limitación De Responsabilidad En El Derecho Romano, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

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Miglietta, Massimo; Santucci, Gianni (Editores). Problemi E Prospettive Della Critica Testuale., Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

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Limitación De La Responsabilidad: Bases Romanas De Un Dogma Iusprivatista, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

En este trabajo el autor pregunta acerca de la posibilidad de considerar a la limitación de responsabilidad un dogma del derecho moderno, en una perspectiva metodológica que privilegia la relación entre dogmática e historia jurídica. A fin de explicitar su pesquisa, se sirve, primero, de algunas explicaciones básicas acerca de la importancia de la identificación de dogmas en el plano de la historia jurídica y el derecho comparado. En su análisis, pasa revista a la importancia adquirida durante el siglo XX por la idea de limitación de responsabilidad, primero a partir del surgimiento de las sociedades de responsabilidad limitada y, …

Limitación De La Responsabilidad Contractual. Perspectivas Teórica Y Metodológica De Un Dogma De Origen Romano, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

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Luxury In Ancient Rome: Scope, Timing And Enforcement Of Sumptuary Laws, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Anna Plisecka

Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

Between 182 BC and 18 BC, Roman lawmakers enacted a series of sumptuary laws regulating banquets (including the number of guests and the consumption of specific foods). Enforcement was hardly successful and these regulations had to be reiterated over time. Traditional explanations based on morals, protection of patrimonies and electoral competition do not fully account for the scope, timing and enforcement patterns of such laws. We advance and formalize a novel hypothesis holding that sumptuary legislation originated from the misalignment between political and economic power following the military and economic expansion of Rome in the last two centuries of the …

Premisas Para Una Investigación Sobre La Historia Dogmática Y Los Perfiles Teóricos De La Limitación De Responsabilidad, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

El trabajo explicita un marco teórico para una investigación que, tomando como punto de partida el legado del derecho romano, indague en torno a la constitución del dogma de la limitación de responsabilidad contractual. Uno de los aspectos centrales de la propuesta consiste en la constatación de que en el derecho moderno la labor de interpretación con miras a la solución de un conflicto no agota sus fundamentos en las normas jurídicas, sino que se extiende hacia nociones teóricas o a los dogmas jurídicos. En este contexto, el autor cree posible indagar en la historia dogmática de la limitación de …

Limitación E Ilimitación De Responsabilidad En Una Empresa De Navegación., Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

El trabajo se funda en una exégesis de dos pasajes del Digesto, que contienen supuestos en gran medida semejantes, referidos a la responsabilidad que cabe al empresario cuyo dependiente ha celebrado negocios navieros. El estudio va destinado a reconstruir el pensamiento de los juristas clásicos, autores de los pasajes examinados, como sus predecesores; en función también de delimitar el ámbito de las acciones de peculio y tributoria, y de aclarar el uso de las nociones de actio exemplo tributoriae y actio quasi tributoria. Finalmente, se analizan los conceptos de voluntas y scientia y su valor dogmático.

The Creation And Transmission Of Justinian's Novels, Timothy G. Kearley

Timothy G. Kearley

Contribución Al Estudio De La Actio Quod Iussu, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

El artículo ofrece una reconstrucción de la actio quod iussu, y hace ver su importancia para el desarrollo de las actividades económicas, principalmente las comerciales, sobre la base de un examen crítico de las anteriores proposiciones de reconstrucción debidas a Otto Lenel y Adolf Rudorff. Indagación especial se dedica al iussum, principal fundamento para la concesión de la acción; y, a propósito de él, se investigan dos problemas, a saber: el del destinatario del iussum y el de la interpretación de su sentido y efectos en Tab. Pomp. 7, cuestión que conecta la actio quod iussu con los instrumentos de …

Remarks On David Daube’S Lectures On Sale, With Special Attention To The Liber Homo And Res Extra Commercium, Ernest Metzger

Ernest Metzger

This article discusses a collection of lecture notes on the Roman law of sale prepared by David Daube for an advanced course conducted at the University of Aberdeen from 1954 to 1955. The article considers in detail Daube’s lecture on the sale of the liber homo and res extra commercium in Roman law. An excerpt from that lecture is attached as an Appendix. His treatment of the subject is unfinished (and unpublished), though it is possible to see how his views might have developed. The final section offers an opinion on Daube’s approach to interpreting texts and its value to …

"The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" In Spaces Of Justice In The Roman World, Eric Kondratieff

History Faculty Publications

"Book abstract: Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces …

El Contexto Dogmático De La Par Condicio Creditorum En El Derecho Romano, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

De acuerdo con la tesis defendida por el autor, desde un punto de vista dogmático, la aparición de la par condicio creditorum esta- ría ligada a un contexto complejo, cuyas variables serían la consolidación de la responsabilidad limitada como regla general, la liberación de algunas exigencias de constitución de los peculios, la relevancia del conocimiento del dueño de los negocios del esclavo y la existencia de un privilegio de pago (ius deductionis) conectado al desconocimiento de dichos negocios. En este sentido, dada la importancia que en el mundo romano tiene la interpretación jurisprudencial, resulta interesante observar cómo esta desarrolla con …

"Iussum" Y "Nominatio" En Las Adquisiciones A Través De Dependientes, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

Roman jurisprudence analysed the consequences of acquisition carried out by a common slave based on the following; the fact that either the slave acted under the iussum of one of his co-owners or that one of the co-owners expressely appointed him for that purpose (nominatio). Sabinian opinion, that finally prevailed in classic jurisprudence, was built based on this problem. This work studies the construction process of this prevailing opinion based on the analysis of jurisprudencial fragments that aims to show the most relevant landmarks in shaping the analysis structure of the problem, The author thinks that Salvius Iulianus' intervention is …

Emprendimiento En Roma Antigua: De La Política Al Derecho, Patricio R. Lazo

Patricio Lazo

The Roman entrepreneurship is analysed from the perspective of the relationships among economics, politics, and law. The author describes some basic aspects of these relationships in Roman history, such as the recognised connection between the Punic Wars and exchange activities, the situation of internal Roman politics, and the connection between the development of the trade and its impact on aspects of the legal language and the origination of protection mechanisms, as legal actions. On this last point, the author studies in depth the hypothesis of the origin of actiones adiecticiae qualitatis and, specifically, the actio quod iiussu in the context …

Rec. A: Fernández De Buján, Antonio. Jurisdicción Y Arbitraje En Derecho Romano. Madrid: Iustel, 2006. 241 Págs., Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

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Inheritance Rights Of Nonmarital Children In Late Roman Law, Joshua C. Tate

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Late Roman legislation regarding the inheritance rights of nonmarital children is a tangled web of seemingly conflicting constitutions. Focusing on the period 371-428 AD, this Article argues that, when two particular Western laws from that era are considered alongside others issued at the same time, it is possible to discern some wider legislative trends that may help to contextualize the different attitudes shown toward nonmarital children. C.Th. 4.6.4 (371), a Western law beneficial to nonmarital children, can arguably be linked with another Western law issued shortly afterward granting a privilege to the daughters of actresses, another disfavored class in the …

Rec. A: Baldus, Christian - Müller-Graff, Peter-Christian (Editores) (2006). Die Generalklausel Im Europäischen Privatrecht. Zur Leistungsfähigkeit Der Deutschen Wissenschaft Aus Romanischer Perspektive (München: Sellier) Xxix + 193 Págs., Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

No abstract provided.

Justice Fred Blume And The Translation Of Justinian's Code, Timothy G. Kearley

Timothy G. Kearley

El Pretendido Efecto Retroactivo De La Condición Cumplida, Patricio Lazo

Patricio Lazo

The topic of this article is the study of Roman sources of law, to the extent that they determine whether the condition which has been fulfilled could have had, or no, a retroactive effect, since some of those sources answer “yes, there was such a retroactive effect”, while others simply deny it. In examining those texts, the author assumes the methodological premise according to which Roman jurists were used to review the cases as decided by earlier jurists, in order, either to confirm the old jurisprudence, or to establish new and varying solutions to the problems. In that perspective, the …

Roman Rape: An Overview Of Roman Rape Laws From The Republican Period To Justinian's Reign, Nghiem L. Nguyen

Michigan Journal of Gender & Law

The modern Western crime of rape is commonly defined as "[u]nlawful sexual activity (esp. intercourse) with a person (usu. a female) without consent and usu. by force or threat of injury," and it is often seen as an assault of the person's body and a violation of self-autonomy. However, this differs significantly from the conception of rape in ancient Rome. In fact, "there is no single word in... Latin with the same semantic field as the modern English word 'rape.'” For the Romans, the act of rape was covered under a variety of legal terms, but each of those words …