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This is not quite a book about Roman law, on which there already exist any number of excellent treatises.1 Neither is it quite a book about Roman social and economic life; that subject, too, is already illuminated by massive works of scholarship? It is about Roman law in its social context, an attempt to strengthen the bridge between two spheres of discourse about ancient Rome by using the institutions of the law to enlarge understanding of the society and bringing the evidence of the social and economic facts to bear on the rules of law. Nowadays, with good reason, the nature of law is usually discussed in sociological terms; we insist on asking what role laws and lawyers and courts actually play in the life of their societies? No one supposes, of course, that by looking only at the law you can get a whole picture of society, neither are the detailed legal institutions of a particular society a product of nothing but its social and economic patterns. Nevertheless, law is certainly some reflection of society (usually of its more conservative aspects, because of the law’s function as a guarantor of stability), and not only a reflection, but also in some degree an influence upon it (usually a brake, providing only cautiously and tardily the mechanisms to fulfil the changing desires of society as a whole, but sometimes an accelerator, a tool in the hands of a particular section of the community such as an intelligentsia for achieving new ends that people in general do not actively want but will not positively oppose)?

Books and textbooks on the discipline Roman law:

1. Beggiato Martina et alii (eds.). Iulius Paulus: Ad edictum libri IV-XVI. Roma – Bristol: L'Erma di Bretschneider,2022. — 380 p. - 2022 ãîä
2. Verhagen Hendrik L.. Security and Credit in Roman Law: The Historical Evolution of Pignus and Hypotheca. Oxford University Press,2022. — 448 p. - 2022 ãîä
3. Du Plessis Paul J. Borkowski's. Textbook on Roman Law. Oxford University Press,2020. — 440 p. - 2020 ãîä
4. Beggio T.. Paul Koschaker (1879-1951): Rediscovering the Roman Foundations of European Legal Tradition. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter,2018. — 334 p. - 2018 ãîä
5. Domingo Rafael. Roman Law: An Introduction. Routledge,2018. — 252 p. - 2018 ãîä
6. Mousourakis G.. Roman Law and the Origins of the Civil Law Tradition. Springer,2015. — 339 p. - 2015 ãîä
7. Birks Peter. Roman Law of Obligations. Oxford University Press,2014. — 303 p. - 2014 ãîä
8. Plessis P.J. du. (ed.). New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World. Edinburgh University Press,2013. — 256 p. - 2013 ãîä
9. Du Plessis P.. Studying Roman Law. Bristol Classical Press,2012. — 150 p. - 2012 ãîä
10. Mousourakis G.. Fundamentals of Roman Private Law. Springer, 2012.— 366 p. - 2012 ãîä
11. Bablitz L.. Actors and audience in the Roman courtroom. Routledge,2007. — 290 p. - 2007 ãîä
12. Cairns J.W., Plessis P.J. du. (eds.). Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World. Edinburgh University Press,2007. - 236 p. - 2007 ãîä
13. Oudshoorn Jacobine G.. The Relationship between Roman and Local Law in the Babatha and Salome Komaise Archives. IDC Publishers,2007. — 456 p. - 2007 ãîä
14. Williamson C.. The laws of the Roman people: public law in the expansion and decline of the Roman Republic. University of Michigan,2005. — 535 p. - 2005 ãîä
15. Stein P.. Roman Law in European History. Cambridge University Press,2004. — 149 p. - 2004 ãîä
16. Zimmermann R.. Roman law, Contemporary law, European law. Oxford University Press,2004. — 113 p. - 2004 ãîä
17. Mousourakis George. The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law. Routledge,2003. — 480 p. - 2003 ãîä
18. Baumann Richard A.. Human Rights in Ancient Rome. Routledge,2000. — 208 p. — (Routledge Classical Monographs) - 2000 ãîä
19. Crook J.A.. Legal advocacy in the Roman world. Cornell University Press,1995. — 228 p. - 1995 ãîä
20. Zimmermann R.. The Law of Obligations. Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition. Juta & Co, Ltd,1992. — 1241 p. - 1992 ãîä