Systems of law: Roman law

Popular sovereignty - the doctrine that the public powers of state originate in a concessive grant of power from "e;the people"e; - is the cardinal doctrine of modern constitutional theory, placing full constitutional authority in the people at large, rather than in the hands of judges, kings, or a political elite.

Imperial and Local Citizenship in the Long Second Century CE offers a radical new history of Roman citizenship in the long century before Caracalla's universal grant of citizenship in 212 CE.

In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator.

Award winning author Gregory S.

Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition.

This book provides a thorough introduction to Roman property law by means of "e;cases,"e; consisting of brief excerpts from Roman juristic sources in the original Latin with accompanying English translations.

Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy is an original collection of texts exemplifying medieval Italian jurisprudence, known as the ius commune.

Presents a set of important Latin inscriptions illustrating the developing sense of dynasty that underpinned the new monarchy of Augustus.

Inwieweit das römische Recht Vereine als Träger von Rechten und Pflichten gekannt hat, ist seit Langem Gegenstand der rechtshistorischen Forschung.

En estas Lectiones se exponen las instituciones del Derecho privado y procesal romano, en forma de manual resumido para el estudiante, adaptado a los planes de estudio vigentes en las Facultades de Derecho de Espana.

Shows how Christian leaders before 1000 CE understood law and used normative texts and practices for social order and eternal salvation.

The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law.

This book makes the important but surprisingly under-explored argument that modern international law was built on the foundations of Roman law and Roman imperial practice.

This edited collection presents an interesting and original series of essays on the roles of principle and pragmatism in Roman private law.

Shows how Christian leaders before 1000 CE understood law and used normative texts and practices for social order and eternal salvation.

This book provides a thorough introduction to Roman property law by means of "e;cases,"e; consisting of brief excerpts from Roman juristic sources in the original Latin with accompanying English translations.

Two central themes run through The Due Process of Law.

An explanation of Roman law in the light of the society and economy in which it operated.

In Lands, Laws, and Gods, Daniel Gargola examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 B.

Demonstrates the paramount importance of laws in securing political equilibrium, stability, the integration of conquered peoples and a long-lasting empire.

Picturing Punishment examines representations of criminal bodies as they moved in, through, and out of publicly accessible spaces in the city during punishment rituals in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic.

Investigation of historical significance of the Roman practice to write solemn documents on wooden tablets.

Wounded Feelings is the first legal history of emotions in Canada.

Pliny the Younger (c.

Desde el anacronismo y repudio que nos suscita la tutela de las mujeres, con una mentalidad actual, pero sabiendo de la diferencia temporal con la institución de la tutela en la antigua Roma, hemos querido estudiar este eficaz instrumento jurídico para proyectar, en el derecho vigente, nuestro rechazo absoluto ante cualquier limitación y restricción a la capacidad de las mujeres.

John Beverley Robinson (1791-1863) was one of Upper Canada's foremost jurists, a dominating influence on the ruling elite, and a leading citizen of nineteenth-century Toronto who owned a vast tract of land on which Osgoode Hall now stands.

This volume offers a long overdue appraisal of the dynamic interactions between Roman law and Latin literature.

Prepared to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the establishment of Nova Scotia's Supreme Court, this important new volume provides a comprehensive history of the institution, Canada's oldest common law court.

The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law.

In Lands, Laws, and Gods, Daniel Gargola examines the formulation and implementation of laws regulating the use of public lands, including the establishment of colonies, in Republican Rome (509-27 B.

Possidius, the bishop of Calama, was a life-long friend of St.

Explores single men and women in the Roman world, their ways of life and their reasons for remaining unmarried.

James McGregor Stewart (1889-1955) was perhaps the foremost Canadian corporate lawyer of his day.

Der antiken Literatur zufolge war Septimius Severus ein auf das Militär fixierter und in finanziellen Angelegenheiten rücksichtsloser Autokrat, der das Recht zu Machtzwecken instrumentalisierte.

Draws from a wealth of primary sources to outline how classical Roman property law was reinvented by liberal nineteenth-century jurists.