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The Roman Law of Obligations
The 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.
| Author(s) | By Peter Birks (The late Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford and Fellow of All Souls College). Edited by, Eric Descheemaeker (University of Edinburgh). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 300 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 21 Jun 2016 |
| Availability | Available |
The 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.
Editor's Introduction ; 1. Obligations: The Conceptual Map ; PART I: CONTRACTS ; 2. The Organization of Roman Contract ; 3. The Contract Litteris and The Role of Writing Generally ; 4. Contracts Verbis ; 5. Contracts Consensu ; 6. Contracts Re ; PART II:
Eric Descheemaeker is a Lecturer in European private law at the University of Edinburgh. A former doctoral student of Peter Birks, he specializes in comparative private law and legal history. He is the author of The Division of Wrongs (OUP, 2009).
