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Showing posts with label Roman Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roman Law. Show all posts
01 October 2026

BOOK: Zachary HERZ, The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty and Other Stories [Studies in Legal History] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 422 p., ISBN 9781009629928

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(image source: CUP ) Abstract: Why is Roman law so boring? In this book, Zachary Herz argues that the bureaucratic, positivistic world of Ro...
27 August 2026

YOUTUBE: Les ateliers du digeste (Philippe COCATRE ZILGIEN & Luigi SANCHI, IHD Jean Gaudemet)

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  (image source: Youtube ) Abstract: Les Ateliers du Digeste proposent une lecture vivante du Digeste de Justinien à travers des séances fil...
07 July 2026

BOOKS: Violet SOEN, Wouter DRUWÉ, Wim FRANCOIS & Ralph DECONINCK (eds.), Innovationes Lovanienses: Arts, Law and Theology at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) and Students, Scholars and Their Books at the University of Louvain (1425–1797) [Lectio, ed. Pieter D'HOINE/Studium Lovaniense, ed. Violet SOEN] (Turnhout: Brepols, 2026) [OPEN ACCESS]

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  (image source: Brepols ) Two open access volumes on the University of Leuven/Louvain in the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Age have bee...
01 June 2026

SEMINAR: “Le rite réalise le droit“? – Rituals and the Law in the Ancient World (Marburg: Universität Marburg, 12–13 JUN 2026)

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(image source:  Universität Marburg ) “Le rite réalise le droit“? – Rituals and the Law in the Ancient World Marburg University&Marburg ...
26 May 2026

SEMINAR: Diritto Romano e mestiere del giurista. Esperienze, confronti, prospettive [Associazione Italiana di Diritto Romano] (Università degli Studi di Milano, 4–5 JUN 2026)

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(image source:  AIDR  &  Università degli Studi di Milano ) Diritto Romano e mestiere del giurista. Esperienze, confronti, prospettive A...
21 May 2026

BOOK: Vid ŽEPIĆ, Favor debitoris. Varstvo dolžnika v rimskem pravu (Ljubljana: Univerza v Ljubljani, Pravna fakulteta & Litteralis d.o.o., 2026), 496 p., ISBN 978-961-7162-25-7, € 79.90

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(image source: Knjigarna Pravna ) Abstract:  Monografija obravnava razvoj načela favor debitoris oziroma krepitev varstva dolžnika v poznoa...
15 May 2026

ADVANCE ARTICLE: Benjamin STRAUMANN, "From Individual virtue to the just state: Cicero and the legal nature of Roman political thought" (The Journal of Roman Studies) [OPEN ACCESS]

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  (image source: CUP ) Abstract: Scholarship on Roman political thought and its legacy, especially anglophone, has rapidly expanded over the...
30 April 2026

SEMINAR: Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives (Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 4 MAY 2026) [HYBRID]

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  (image source: UH ) Disabilities and Women in Ancient Rome: Legal, social and cultural perspectives    University of Helsinki Workshop: In...
04 February 2026

ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sylvie CROGIEZ-PETREQUIN "Le Code Théodosien (438-439) : un jalon du droit romain" (EHNE) [OPEN ACCESS]

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 (image source: EHNE ) Introduction: Le Code Théodosien est un recueil de règlements et de décisions impériales des ive et ve siècles, écrit...
23 January 2026

NEWS: Wim DECOCK appointed as new Regius Professor of Civil Law (Oxford University)

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  (image source: Oxford University ) Start of the press release: His Majesty The King has approved the appointment of Professor Wim Decock, ...

BOOK: Dirk ERDELKAMP, Nemo pro parte testatus pro parte intestatus decedere potest [Schriten zur Europäischen Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte; 64] (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2025), 321 p., ISBN 978-3-428-19350-9

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  ABOUT THE BOOK: Die Arbeit setzt sich als erste deutschsprachige Monographie seit dem Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts mit dem »[großen] Rätsel ...
01 December 2025

INTERVIEW: François WAQUET, "Le droit romain à l’origine de la légitimité politique occidentale" (Paris: Collège de France)

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  (image source: Collège de France ) Introduction: Comment les monarques européens ont-ils légitimé leur pouvoir pendant des siècles ? Au cœ...
19 November 2025

BOOK: Claudia MOATTI, Sur la politique. Cinq grandes leçons romaines [Lectures méditerranéennes] (Rome: École française de Rome, 2025), 308 p. ISBN 9782728318490, € 18

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  (image source: EFR ) Abstract: Repenser la res publica, d’où vient (mais par quels détours, quels malentendus !) le terme moderne de « rép...
12 November 2025

ENCYCLOPEDIA: Marguerite RONIN, "Une histoire de l'eau dans le droit romain" (EHNE, Sorbonne-Université, NOV 2025)

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(image source: EHNE ) First paragraph: L’eau constitue à la fois une ressource naturelle indispensable à de nombreuses activités économiques...
31 October 2025

BOOK: Eleanor COWAN, Kit MORRELL, Andrew PETTINGER & Michael SEVEL (eds.), The Rule of Law in Ancient Rome (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), ISBN 9780198959328

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  (image source: OUP ) Abstract: This volume brings together the study of the rule of law—the idea that the law should protect citizens from...
30 June 2025

BOOK: Ulrike BABUSIAUX, Christian BALDUS, Wolfgang ERNST, Franz-Stefan MEISSEL, Johannes PLATSCHEK & Thomas RÜFNER (Hrsg.), Handbuch des Römischen Privatrechts (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023), XCVI + 3707 p., € 629

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  (image source: Mohr Siebeck ) Abstract: Das Handbuch des Römischen Privatrechts gilt dem römischen Privat- und Zivilprozessrecht von den ä...
23 June 2025

BOOK: Joanna KULAWIAK-CYRANKOWSKA, "Utilitas" in Roman Jurists' Legal Interpretation [Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, eds. Elisabeth BEGEMANN, Filippo CARLA-UHINK & Katharina WESSELMANN; 88 ] (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2025), 262 p. ISBN 9783515136686, €52

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  (image source: Franz Steiner Verlag ) Abstract: This study offers a comprehensive analysis of utilitas, a central concept in Roman law, an...
19 June 2025

BOOK: IUSTINIANUS, Corpus Iuris Civilis (transl. Dominique GAURIER) (Paris: La Mémoire du Droit, 2025), 5368 p., € 1980

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(image source: La Mémoire du Droit )   Pour la première fois depuis plus de deux siècles, le Corpus Juris Civilis – fondement du droit occi...
09 June 2025

CALL FOR PAPERS: Ius Commune in the Making: Meaning in Law [Ius Commune Workshop on Comparative Legal History] (Amsterdam: UvA, 27 NOV 2025) [DEADLINE 1 AUG 2025]

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  Ius Commune Workshop on Comparative Legal History Ius Commune in the Making: Meaning in Law 27 November 2025   (Amsterdam door Robin...