Systems of law: Roman law

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

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.

The Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family.

The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity.

In the early second century CE, two Jewish women, Babatha and Salome Komaise, lived in the village of Maoza on the southern coast of the Dead Sea.

The social historian, searching for the basis of a culture, often turns to a study of ordinary people.

This edited collection brings together recent scholarship on the understanding of Roman private law.

Saint Antoninus of Florence was a Dominican friar and archbishop of Florence from 1446 to 1459.

Building Justice draws on the inspiring life of former Canadian Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci to offer insight into the meaning of engaged citizenship through law.

A comprehensive study - recently updated for the eBook edition - which introduces the reader to the vigour and variety of the fourth century AD.

Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.

Pliny the Younger (c.

Pliny the Younger (c.

`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all.

`However one defines Man, the same definition applies to us all.

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement.

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement.

Between the Sack of Rome by the Gauls in 390 BC and the middle of the second century BC, a part-time army of Roman peasants, under the leadership of the ruling oligarchy, conquered first Italy and then the whole of the Mediterranean.

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.

The Twelve Caesars, is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire written by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus.