Acknowledgments
Family, friends and colleagues have helped and supported me over the years: I am immensely grateful to all of them. For this book I would like to thank a number of persons specifically.
My home country, the Netherlands, has a great Romanist tradition, which is continued by a range of bright young scholars. I am very grateful to some of them for their comments of chapters of my book: Vincent van Hoof, Elsemieke Daalder, Rian Bobbink, and Quintijn Mauer. I am thankful to my daughter Laura for checking citations of the Corpus iuris civilis and to Vincent Hunink for his advice on some of the translations from Latin. I would like to thank two colleagues at the faculty of law of the Radboud University for their encouragement over the years: Corjo Jansen and Ben Schuijling. I would also like to express my thanks to those who have given useful comments in earlier publications, on which this book is partly based: Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Dennis Kehoe, Jaap den Hollander, and Willem Zwalve. A special word of thanks goes to Peter Richerson, who kindly read the sections on social and cultural evolution. I am extremely grateful to the anonymous reviewers of this book, not only for their comments on specific points but even more so for the very useful suggestions for enhancing the presentation of the material contained in this book. I also would like to express my thanks to the editors of the series Roman Studies in Law and Society, Paul du Plessis and Thomas McGinn, for their guidance. I remember with great respect Felix Wubbe, Robert Feenstra, and Hans Ankum. The latter read and corrected all my preliminary studies on pignus and hypotheca and encouraged the writing of this book.I am fortunate to have spent my entire professional life in stimulating and diverse working environments. My career started at the Department of Roman law of the Radboud University, chaired by Paul Neve, where the seeds for my interest in Roman law were sown.
In the Financial Markets Group of Clifford Chance Amsterdam, I learned much about law and finance in action. Within the Department of Private Law of the Faculty of Law of the Radboud University, for a long time chaired by Bas Kortmann and now by Steven Bartels, I have always had absolute freedom to pursue any legal subject, past or present, that I was interested in. At the same university I also enjoy the privilege of being a member of the Ancient and Medieval History Department of the Faculty of Arts chaired by Olivier Hekster. I would like to thank Charlotte Loveridge, Henry Clarke and Jamie Mortimer at Oxford University Press, who have patiently encouraged and supported my book. Janet Walker and Thomas Deva skilfully edited the manuscript for publication, and Ian Macavoy corrected the proofs.Many years ago my wife Marie-Jose first took me to the Mercati di Traiano in Rome, where the idea for this book was born. Ever since she has been an inspiring, sensible and caring travelling companion on the long and adventurous road which led to the present book. I dedicate this book to her and to our daughters Eva and Laura, without whose loving support it could not have been written.
Rick Verhagen
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- Table of Contents
- INDEX
- Concluding Remarks
- INTRODUCTION
- INVALIDITY
- ABBREVIATIONS
- Requirements of the actio negotiorum gestorum
- Conclusion
- From Tangible to Intangible Collateral: Pignus Nominis
- The Legis Actio Procedure
- The International Community as a Political Myth
- Principles of criminal liability and punishment
- THE (UNIVERSAL) CORPOREAL LANGUAGE OF PAIN
- The Hereditability of