§ 1 In a curriculum primarily devoted to the principles and practices of present-day American law it may be pertinent to question the inclusion of a course dealing with the Roman law.
What purposes can be served by instruction in the elements of a legal system of the ancient world that warrants competition, even on an elective basis, with the multifold offerings in various fields for specialists, in modern foreign law, in economic-legal and other cross-disciplinary subject matter? An attempt will be made in this chapter to describe the historical precedents of Roman law study, the values that have been attributed to its study, the possible materials and methods of instruction, concluding with the particular purposes to be served by this course, and the methods of instruction to be followed.
The next chapter will treat of the materials which will be utilized. It is evident that the aim pursued can only be realized by the employment of the right tools and the manner of their use proper to the particular undertaking.A.
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- THE PRESENT-DAY STUDY OF ROMAN LAW
- Advocacy in present-day courts
- Berger Adolf. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law. Philadelphia: The American philosophical Society,1953. — 479 p., 1953
- 77 This book is primarily concerned with the development of the classical law, more specifically, with the sources from which that law derives and with the forces which were instrumental in its development.
- The law of obligations is one of the most significant contributions of Roman law to legal culture, illuminating the civil law tradition more than any other branch of Roman law.
- Dealing with the Abyss: The Nature and Purpose of the Rhodian Sea-law on Jettison (Lex Rhodia De Iactu, D 14.2) and the Making of Justinian's Digest
- HI. LEGAL HISTORY AS A MEANS Of UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT STATE OF OUR LAW
- Roman private law developed from the law of procedure, otherwise recognized as the law relating to actions.
- The last point to be treated here will be to show the most important functions principles fulfil in law.
- This part of the study investigates general issues related with the question to law behind the documents.
- I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES-- CIVIL LAW
- It is difficult to provide a comprehensive and finite list of the sources of Roman law, since the Roman jurists never defined the term 'source of law' and different sources were emphasized at certain periods in the history of the Roman legal system to reflect their prominence as instruments of legal reform.
- Zimmermann R.. Roman law, Contemporary law, European law. Oxford University Press,2004. — 113 p., 2004
- Principles of European Trust Law
- Mousourakis G.. Roman Law and the Origins of the Civil Law Tradition. Springer,2015. — 339 p., 2015
- Roman Law, Canon Law, and the Trust
- VII. FROM CONTEMPORARY ROMAN LAW TO ROMAN LAW