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Informationen zum Autor John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses predominantly on the multifaceted and complex set of relationships between law and society in a historical context. Paul is an experienced editor and author. He is co-editor of the following publications: The Making of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (EUP, 2010), Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2007), Reassessing Legal Humanism and Its Claims (EUP, 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (OUP, 2016). He is also editor of New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2013), Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic (EUP, 2016) and Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law (OUP, 2015). Klappentext This book is an important contribution to the current lively debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world. This debate, which was initiated by the work of John Crook in the 1960's, has had a profound impact upon the study of law and history and has created sharply divided opinions on the extent to which law may be said to be a product of the society that created it. This work is a modest attempt to provide a balanced assessment of the various points of view. The chapters within this book have been specifically arranged to represent the debate. It contains an introductory chapter by Alan Watson, whose views on the relationship between law and society have caused some controversy. In the remaining chapters a distinguished international group of scholars address this debate by focusing on studies of law and empire, codes and codification, death and economics, commerce and procedure. This book does not purport to provide a complete survey of Roman private law in light of Roman society. Its primary aim is to address specific areas of the law with a view to contributing to the larger debate. Zusammenfassung This book provides a survey of the debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefacePart I: Debates and ContextsIntroduction: Themes and LiteratureJ. Cairns and P. J. du Plessis1. Law and SocietyA. WatsonPart II: Law and Empire2. Legal Pluralism and the Roman EmpiresK. Tuori3. Diplomatics, Law and Romanization in the Documents from the Judaean DesertE. A. MeyerPart III: Law Codes and Codification4. Roman Law Codes and the Roman Legal TraditionJ. Harries5. Diocletian and the Efficacy of Public LawR. ReesPart IV: Death, Economics and Succession6. The Dutiful Legatee: Pliny, Letters V.1A. D. E. Lewis7. The Hereditability of Locatio ConductioP. J. du PlessisPart V: Commerce and Law8. Dealing with the Abyss: the Nature and Purpose of the Rhodian Sea-Law on Jettison (Lex Rhodia de Iactu, D. 14.2) and the Making of Justinian's DigestJ-J Aubert9. Suing the Paterfamilias: Theory and PracticeD. JohnstonPart VI: Procedure10. Lawsuits in ContextE. Metzger11. The Role of DelatorsO. F. RobinsonIndex...
