Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of Alan Watson
Redaktion: Cairns, John; Robinson, Olivia

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This important collection of essays is at the cutting edge of contemporary research on Roman law, comparative law, and legal history. The international and distinguished group of authors address some of the most lively contemporary problems in their respective fields, and provide new perspectives and insights in a wide range of areas. With a firm focus on texts and contexts, the papers come together to provide a coherent volume dedicated to one of the greatest contemporary Romanists, legal historians and comparative lawyers. The book covers Professor Watson's main fields of interest in a clear and accessible form, while also making available the scholarship of some individuals who do not normally publish in English. This fully-indexed volume will be of interest to all scholars and students of Roman law, ancient Jewish and Chinese law, legal history and comparative law, and will be useful for teaching and research in these fields.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847310255
• Artikelnr.: 52970523

Autorenporträt

John W. Cairns is Professor of Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia Robinson teaches at Glasgow University.

Inhaltsangabe

ROMAN LAW 1. Was Acceptilatio an Informal Act in Classical Roman Law? HANS
ANKUM (Amsterdam) 2. Solutio and Traditio J L BARTON (Oxford) 3. Actor and
Defendant in Negatoria Servitutis L CAPOGROSSI COLOGNESI (Rome) 4. Some
Reflections on History and Dogma as Jurists' Tools GIULIANO CRIFO (Rome) 5.
D. 33.1.20.1 (Scaevola 18 dig.) Revisited ROBERT FEENSTRA (Leiden) 6.
Death, Taxes and Status in Pliny's Panegyricus JANE F. GARDNER (Reading) 7.
Translation and Interpretation WILLIAM M. GORDON (Glasgow) 8. The Case of
the Deliberate Wine Spill HERBERT HAUSMANINGER (Vienna) 9. De
Iurisprudentia NEIL MACCORMICK (Edinburgh) 10. Pigs, Boars and Livestock
under the Lex Aquilia GRANT MCLEOD (Edinburgh) 11. "Galba Negabat" A D
MANFREDINI (Ferrara) 12. Partes Iuris THEO MAYER-MALY (Salzburg) 13. "Unus
Testis Nullus Testis" ANTONINO METRO (Messina) 14. Unpardonable Crimes:
Fourth Century Attitudes O F ROBINSON (Glasgow) 15. The Praetor Hoist with
his Own Petard: the Palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10 ALAN RODGER (Edinburgh)
16. Maiestas in the Late Republic: Some Observations ROBIN SEAGER
(Liverpool) OTHER ANCIENT LAWS 17. Oral Establishment of Dowry in Jewish
and Roman Law: D'varim Haniknim Ba'amira and Dotis Dictio RANON KATZOFF
(Bar Ilan) 18. Cause, Status and Fault in the Traditional Chinese Law of
Homicide GEOFFREY MACCORMACK (Aberdeen) 19. The Septuagint as Nomos: How
the Torah became a "Civic Law" for the Jews of Egypt JOSEPH MÉLE ZE
MODRZEJEWSKI (Paris) 20. Basics of Roman and Jewish Intestacy REUVEN
YARON(Jerusalem) TRANSPLANTS, RECEPTIONS AND COMPARISONS 21. The Education
and Qualification of Civil Lawyers in Historical Perspective: From Jurists
and Orators to Advocates, Procurators and Notaries HANS W BAADE (Austin)
22. The Moveable Text of Mackenzie: Bibliographical Problems for the
Scottish Concept of Institutional Writing JOHN W CAIRNS (Edinburgh) 23.
Restitution, Repetition, Recompense and Unjustified Enrichment in Scots Law
ROBIN EVANS-JONES (Aberdeen) and PHILLIP HELLWEGE (Cologne) 24. John Adams
and the Whale ANDREW LEWIS (London) 25. Leibniz's Elementa Iuris Civilis
and the Private Law of his Time KLAUS LUIG (Cologne) 26. Classifying Crimes
R A A MCCALL SMITH (Edinburgh) 27. The Shifting Focus of Adoption JOSEPH W
MCKNIGHT (Dallas) 28. Girth: Society and the Law of Sanctuary in Scotland
HECTOR L MACQUEEN (Edinburgh) 29. Descendit ad Inferos: And Belial Sued
Jesus Christ for Trespass ELTJO SCHRAGE (Amsterdam) 30. Saving Souls
through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in the Dutch East Indies A J B SIRKS
(Frankfurt a/Main) 31. Legal Change and Scots Private Law JOE THOMSON
(Glasgow) 32. Quod raro fit, non observant legislatores: a Classical Maxim
of Legislation ANDREAS WACKE (Cologne) 33. Kasper Manz, a German Jurist in
the Seventeenth Century: A Man of Theory and Practice GUNTER WESENER (Graz)
34. A Note on Regulae Iuris in Roman Law and on Dworkin's Distinction
between Rules and Principles LAURENS WINKEL (Rotterdam)