Jurists and Legal Science in the History of Roman Law (Routledge-Giappichelli Studies in Law)

This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani - dedicated to a new collection of the texts of Roman jurisprudence, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works. 
Jurists were great protagonists of the history of Rome, both as producers and interpreters of law, since the Republican Age and as collaborators of the principes during the Empire. Nevertheless, their role has been underestimated by modern historians and legal experts for reasons connected to the developments of Modern Law in England and in Continental Europe. This book aims to address this imbalance. It presents an advanced paradigm in considering the most important aspects of Roman law: the Justinian Digesta, and other juridical late antique anthologies. The work offers an historiographic model which overturns current perspectives and makes way for a different path for legal and historical studies. Unlike existing literature, the focus is not on the Justinian Codification, but on the individualities of ancient Roman Jurists. As such, it presents the actual legal thought of its experts and authors: the ancient iuris prudentes. 
The book will be of interest to researchers and academics in Classics, Ancient History, History of Law, and contemporary legal studies.

Computers & Technology

Liebs, Detlef

Ando, Clifford

Brutti, Massimo

Diliberto, Oliviero

Falcone, Giuseppe

Lovato, Andrea

Mantovani, Dario

Marotta, Valerio

Nasti, Fara

Schiavone, Aldo

Stolfi, Emanuele

Programming Languages

Routledge

Summoned to the Roman Courts: Famous Trials from Antiquity

Summoned to the Roman Courts is the first work by Detlef Liebs, an internationally recognized expert on ancient Roman law, to be made available in English. Originally presented as a series of popular lectures, this book brings to life a thousand years of Roman history through sixteen studies of famous court cases―from the legendary trial of Horatius for the killing of his sister, to the trial of Jesus Christ, to that of the Christian leader Priscillian for heresy. Drawing on a wide variety of ancient sources, the author not only paints a vivid picture of ancient Roman society, but also illuminates how ancient legal practices still profoundly affect how the law is implemented today.

History

Ancient Civilizations

University of California Press

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