[First posted in AWOL 14 May 2914, updated 17 February 2019]
Roman Legal Tradition: A Journal of Ancient Medieval and Modern Civil Law
ISSN 1943-6483
A Journal of Ancient Medieval and Modern Civil Law
Roman
Legal Tradition is a peer-reviewed journal published online by the Ames
Foundation and the University of Glasgow School of Law. ISSN 1943-6483.
The
journal aims to promote the study of the civilian tradition in English.
The editors welcome contributions on any aspect of the civilian
tradition in ancient, medieval, and modern law.
All articles and
reviews published in Roman Legal Tradition are available from this site
free of charge. In addition, all articles and reviews are also
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editors and relevant authors.
Contents. The contents for all issues are here. The articles are in PDF format. They may be saved and printed without restriction.
Index of Sources. A full index of primary sources cited in the first five volumes are here.
Guidelines for Contributors. These guidelines are provided mainly for the benefit of those who are providing final copy to the editors.
Contact Information and Subscriptions. This page contains details for editorial communication with the editors, subscriptions, and purchase of back issues.
The
first three volumes were published by the Roman Law Society of America,
with the support of the University of Kansas Law School, and appeared
both online and in print under ISSN 1551-1375. Back issues of Volumes
Two and Three are available from Amazon.com from the link to the left.
2018 —
The Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America: The Lost Years
Timothy Kearley
The Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America was the preeminent source
of intellectual support for Romanists in the United States during the
middle of the twentieth century (1930-1956). It was named in honor of
the great Italian Romanist Salvatore Riccobono, who was a visiting
professor at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1929. His
lectures at the CUA inspired American Romanists to create an
organization that would foster the study and teaching of Roman law in
the United States following his departure. In the course of the
Seminar's existence, many of the era's greatest Roman law scholars, both
foreign and domestic, gave presentations at the Riccobono Seminar. The
history of the Seminar after it came under the aegis of the CUA in 1935
has been readily available, but that is not the case for the years
1930-1935, when it moved among several law schools in the District of
Columbia. This paper uses archival information and newspaper sources to
describe the Seminar's activities in those "lost years."
Alan Watson 1933–2018
O. F. Robinson
Professor Robinson writes on the death of Alan Watson, Distinguished
Research Professor and holder of the Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the
University of Georgia School of Law.
2017 —
The Vices and Virtues of Friendship. Juridical Metaphors in Horace
(Ep. 2.2 and Sat. 1.3)
Consuelo Carrasco García
Two poems by Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC) provide us with the
occasion to study how Roman society of the first century BC perceived
the law. They allow us to see the creative process of the poet from a
literary point of view and at the same time to become aware of his moral
and philosophical values. This is a work of Roman law, but also of
literature and of the language in which both are expressed. The legal
analysis of the poems helps us to understand the way in which the author
avails himself of legal situations and morphosyntactic phenomena that
are characteristic of the language of law in order to achieve poetic
effects, which would be impossible if he did not thoroughly understand
the mechanisms of the ius that he refers to. One could say the
same with respect to the public with whose complicity he reckons: a
public - at least the elite that Horace addresses himself to especially -
that knows how to "read between the lines," since it is able to
appreciate and understand, among the metaphors and other literary
devices, the subtlety of the Roman jurists' thinking; all this because
the legal world is nothing strange to it. Dating to around 19 and 36 BC
respectively, both poems have as their underlying argument the taking
shape of the concept of "vice," of the body and of the mind, and its
antonym "virtue," the latter understood as careful consideration in
judging the "defects or shortcomings" of others, especially one's
friends.
Review
Gergely Deli
Corpus und Universitas. Römisches Körperschafts- und Gesellschaftsrecht:
zwischen griechischer Philosophie und römischer Politik. By Andreas
Groten. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. 2015. xv + 477 pp. ISBN
978-3-16-153316-7.
[13:5–9
Review
Ernest Metzger
Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic. Edited by Paul
J. du Plessis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2016. x + 241 pp.
ISBN 978-1-4744-0882-0.
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