Jurists and Legal Science in the History of Roman Law

This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works.

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Aldo Schiavone is head of the European Research Council funded project: Scriptores iuris Romani. Texts and Thought, which takes place at the University of Rome `La Sapienza'. He has published extensively on Ancient Rome both in Italian and English.

Fara Nasti is Professor of Roman Law, University of Calabria, Senior Staff of the Project.

Inhalt

1. Singularity and Impersonality in the Thought of Roman Jurists

2. Stories of Legal Dogmas, Stories of Roman Jurists: An Uncompleted Transition3. 'Kunstgeschichte' and 'Künstlergeschichte'. The Problem of Literary Genres in the Roman Legal Literature

3. Historicity of Law and Ius Controversum in Italian Historiography of the Twentieth Century. The Work of Riccardo Orestano and Luigi Raggi

4. Roman Law and Roman Jurists in American Legal Culture

5. Law and Literature. The Case of Roman Jurisprudence in Latin Literary Works

6. Greek Thought and Roman Jurists: A Preliminary Survey on Pomponius's Enchiridion

7. Concerning Paul. 29 Ad Ed., D. 13.6.17.3: Officium, Beneficium, Commodare. (With an Appendix on the Alterity between Morality and Law)

8. Roman Jurists and the Empire: History and Interpretation

9. Aspects of the Critical Edition of Roman Juristic Works. The Example of Ulpian's De Officio Proconsulis

10. The Code System. Reorganizing Roman Law and Legal Literaturein the Late Antique Period