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The Genius Of Roman Law From A Law And Economics Perspective, Juan Javier Del Granado Oct 2011

The Genius Of Roman Law From A Law And Economics Perspective, Juan Javier Del Granado

San Diego International Law Journal

The Article is organized as follows: The first part of this Article will introduce Roman private law, and sketch out the law and economics methodology to be applied to the Roman classical system. The second part of this Article will discuss the Roman private law of property, obligations, as well as commerce and finance. The third part will discuss the interaction of private law and private morality in the construction of Roman social order. The fourth part of this Article will discuss private procedural aspects of the Roman legal system. The fifth and final part of this Article will discuss …


Contra Non Valentem In France And Louisiana: Revealing The Parenthood, Breaking A Myth, Benjamin West Janke, François-Xavier Licari Feb 2011

Contra Non Valentem In France And Louisiana: Revealing The Parenthood, Breaking A Myth, Benjamin West Janke, François-Xavier Licari

Louisiana Law Review

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Tradition, Precedent, And Power In Roman Egypt, Ari Bryen Jan 2011

Tradition, Precedent, And Power In Roman Egypt, Ari Bryen

Studio for Law and Culture

This paper is one of a series of preliminary studies that I hope will eventually end in a book-length study of the history of law in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. The history of law in the provinces tends to be written in one of two ways: either as the story of how Roman rules and concepts interpenetrate local cultural and legal systems (the history of the many and varied “vulgarizations” of Roman law); or, in the wake of the “Mediterraneanist” paradigms of the twentieth century, as a story of how local communities seek to regulate themselves – …