Roman law
Roman law
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The Renaissance of Roman Colonization: Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse
£75.40Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84) and his reconstruction of the Roman colonial model. Learn MorePublication date 10 December 2020
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Principle and Pragmatism in Roman Law
£64.85Publication date 12 November 2020
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Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law
£37.70Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law provides a thorough and engaging overview of Roman private law and civil procedure. It is the ideal course companion for undergraduate Roman law courses, combining clear, comprehensible language and a wide range of supportive learning features with the most important sources of Roman law. Learn MorePublication date 23 April 2020
By Oxford University Press -
Priests of the Law: Roman Law and the Making of the Common Law's First Professionals
£66.00This book examines the development of legal professionalism in the early English common law, with specific reference to the 13th-century treatise known as Bracton and to its likely authors. Learn MorePublication date 28 November 2019
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Courage in the Democratic Polis
£24.50In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to re-conceive of courage as a specifically democratic virtue. Learn MorePublication date 05 July 2018
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Localized Law: The Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives
£71.65Localized Law examines the legal archives of Babatha and Salome Komaise, which offer a window onto the practice of law in Maoza as it came under the control of the Roman Empire. A series of case studies of the various agents involved in the legal transactions illuminates the legal culture of this community and its practice of law and justice. Learn MorePublication date 19 January 2017
By Oxford University Press -
The Emperor of Law: The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication
£103.70The Emperor of Law explores how the Roman emperor came to assume the mantle of supreme legal authority in the Empire. It offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the advent of imperial supremacy in law based on an analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction through historical narratives. Learn MorePublication date 08 December 2016
By Oxford University Press -
The Roman Law of Obligations
£23.55The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law. Discovered in complete manuscript form following his death, the lectures are published here for the first time. Learn MorePublication date 09 June 2016
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Popular Sovereignty in Early Modern Constitutional Thought
£69.75Examining the intellectual origins of the constitutional doctrine of 'popular sovereignty', this book explores the importance of Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought. Learn MorePublication date 25 February 2016
By Oxford University Press -
Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural Resources in the Roman World
£84.85This volume focuses on how the institutional set-up, or structure, of the Roman Empire positively or negatively affected economic performance. Learn MorePublication date 02 July 2015
By Oxford University Press -
The Constitution of the Roman Republic
£52.80Rome acquired her great empire under republican institutions. These institutions were held to be remarkably stable because they were a mixture of monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy, created by natural evolution not by a lawgiver. The Republic was also a classic example of a largely unwritten constitution, like that of Britain, and so it has bearing on modern political theory. Learn MorePublication date 27 March 2003
By Oxford University Press
