Roman Law Resources

Edited by Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow

This site provides information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who study Roman law. The site is available in English and German. Users are invited to submit to this site any materials or information which might interest other users.

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The pages listed under Materials give immediate access to materials on Roman and civil law and related subjects. The pages listed under Information give access to other relevant resources. The IusCivile Forum is an open discussion forum for Roman and civil law.


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· Bibliographies

· Booksellers

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· Events

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· Forum

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· Journals

· Justinian's Digest

· Literature

· Palingenesia
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· Palingenesia
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· Portals

· Projects

· Reprints

· Reviews

· Sources

· Teaching
  Materials


         

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· Contributions

· Credits

· Search

· Sepulchra

· Statistics

         

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Notices  

La la 62ième Session de la SIHDA. 23-27 September 2008. 'Le contrat dans tous ses états'.
2nd circular in English . . .
2nd circular in French . . .
More . . .

American Society for Legal History. 13-16 November 2008. Ottawa, Canada.
More . . .

Center for Legal History, University of Edinburgh. 12-13 December 2008. Conference: 'From Casus to Regula'. Flyer.

CEDANT: Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti antichi. Pavia, 12-30 January 2009. 'Introduzione al diritto Bizantino (da Giustiniano ai Basilici)'.
More . . .

XVth European Forum of Young Legal Historians. Florence, Italy, 2-4 April 2009. Call for papers.

Prof. Dr. Marie Theres Fögen (1946 - 2008). Notice.

Materials  

Literature

An index to relevant secondary literature available over the Internet. You may wish also to visit:

Electronic Reprints. A small number of articles, which have been published elsewhere, are reprinted at this site.

Abbreviations. A list of abbreviations that are common in Roman law literature.

Sources

 

An index to relevant primary sources available over the Internet. You may wish also to visit:

 
 

Palingenesia of Latin Private Rescripts. 193-305 AD. By Professor Tony Honoré. Prepared to accompany Emperors and Lawyers, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994).

 
 

Palingenesia of Latin Laws. Laws of Eastern Emperors 379-450 AD and of Western Emperors 383-455 AD. By Professor Tony Honoré. Prepared to accompany Law in the Crisis of Empire, 379-455 AD (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).

 
 

Justinian's Digest: corrections to the English translation. Users may consult the corrections submitted by contributors, and may submit corrections themselves.

 

Reviews

An index to relevant book reviews available over the Internet.

Bibliographies

An index to relevant bibliographies and catalogues of materials available over the Internet.

Teaching Materials

An index to relevant teaching materials available over the Internet.

Information  

Legal Historians

This directory includes legal romanists and other legal historians from more than 30 countries. Interested users are encouraged to submit their names. Two other directories are also available:

Antiquarian booksellers. These booksellers carry Roman law titles from time to time. The list provides names, addresses, e-mail addresses, and links to web sites. This page also includes links to many book search engines.

Faculties, institutes, chairs, and libraries. A directory of institutions and departments.

Forthcoming events

A calendar of forthcoming events which may interest users of this site. You may also wish to visit:

Past events. A calendar of past events for reference.

Discussion

A directory of sites where (one hopes) subjects of interest to users of this site are discussed. You may also wish to visit the locally-hosted discussion forum:

IusCivile Forum. Please use this discussion forum to make comments or ask questions that might usefully be addressed to users of this site. You do not need to register to post or to read, but if you wish to receive others' posts by e-mail, you may register. Full instructions on registration are provided.

Portals

An index of internet portals for Roman, civil, and ancient law, as well as a small number of internal portals for classical antiquity and the middle ages.

Projects

Those who are engaged in projects of long duration occasionally publish a range of different materials on the Internet.

Journals

An index to websites of relevant journals.

CD-ROMs on Antiquity

An index to relevant CD-ROMs on antiquity.

This Site  

About this site

A short description of the history and aims of this site. Further information about this site is available at:

Updates. A chronological listing of what's new at this site.

Visitor statistics. Full month-by-month statistics.

Credits. Many thanks to those who have helped in the development of this site.

Contributions

Go to this page if you would like to contribute any materials or information to this site.

Search

A search engine for this site.

 

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