(Source: Routledge)
Routledge will
publish a new introduction to Roman Law next month. The book can be pre-ordered
with the publisher.
ABOUT
Roman Law: An
Introduction offers a clear and accessible
introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand
years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian’s massive
Codification, the Romans developed the most sophisticated and comprehensive
secular legal system of Antiquity, which remains at the heart of the civil law
tradition of Europe, Latin America, and some countries of Asia and Africa.
Roman lawyers created new legal concepts, ideas, rules, and mechanisms that
most Western legal systems still apply. The study of Roman law thus facilitates
understanding among people of different cultures by inspiring a kind of legal
common sense and breadth of knowledge.
Based on over
twenty-five years’ experience teaching Roman law, this volume offers a
comprehensive examination of the subject, as well as a historical introduction
which contextualizes the Roman legal system for students who have no
familiarity with Latin or knowledge of Roman history. More than a compilation of
legal facts, the book captures the defining characteristics and principal
achievements of Roman legal culture through a millennium of development.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rafael
Domingo (1963, PhD 1987) is the Spruill Family
Research Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, USA, and ICS Professor of
Law at the University of Navarra, Spain. A specialist in legal history, legal
theory, ancient Roman law, and comparative law, he has authored and edited more
than twenty books, including Auctoritas (1999), Juristas
Universales (2004), The New Global Law (2010), God
and the Secular Legal System (2016), and Great
Christian Jurists in Spanish History (2018).
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Preface
List of
abbreviations
Chronological
Table
Part One:
Roman Law in Historical Context
Chapter One:
Basic Legal Concepts and Values
Chapter Two:
Constitutional Background of Roman Law
Chapter Three:
Sources of Roman Law
Chapter Four:
The Jurists and the Legal Science
Chapter Five:
Justinian and the Corpus Iuris
Chapter Six: The
Revival of Roman Law
Part Two:
Roman Law in Action
Chapter Seven:
Civil Litigation
Chapter Eight:
Family Law
Chapter Nine:
Property Law
Chapter Ten: The
Law of Succession
Chapter Eleven:
The Law of Obligations: Contracts
Chapter Twelve:
The Law of Obligations: Delicts
Bibliography
Index
For more
information, see the publisher’s
website.
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