Other general works on specific areas
(a) On history of Roman law
Otto Karlowa, Romische Rechtsgeschichte (unfinished), 2 vols. (Leipzig: Verlag von Veit & Co., 1885, 1901); Arangio Ruiz, Storia del diritto romano, 7th ed.
(Naples: Jovene, 1957); Wolfgang Kunkel, An Introduction to Roman Legal and Constitutional History, 2nd ed., translated by J. M. Kelly (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973), updated edition in German, Wolfgang Kunkel and Martin Schermaier, Romische Rechtsgeschichte, 14th ed. (Vienna and Cologne: Bohlau, 2004); Franz Wieacker, Romische Rechtgeschichte I, Quellenkunde, Rechtsbildung, Jurisprudenz und Rechtsliteratur (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1988) and II, Die Jurisprudenz vom frühen Prinzipat bis zum Ausgang der Antike, edited by Joseph Georg Wolf (Munich: Beck Verlag, 2006); Mario Talamanca, ed., Lineamenti di storia del diritto romano, 2nd ed. (Milan: Giuffre, 1989); Antonio Guarino, Storia del diritto romano, 12th ed. (Naples: Jovene, 1998); Aldo Schiavone, The Invention of the Law in the West, translated by Jeremy Carden and Anthony Shugaar (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012); Wolfgang Waldstein and Michael Rainer, Romische Rechtsgeschichte, 11th ed. (Munich: Beck Verlag, 2014).(b) On Roman legal sources and methodology
Paul Krüger, Geschichte der Quellen und Litteratur des romischen Rechts, 2nd ed. (München: Verlag von Duncker & Humblot, 1912); Fritz Schulz, Einführung in das Studium der Digesten (Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1916); Hermann Kantorowicz, Einführung in die Textskritik (Leipzig: Dietrrich, 1921); Leopold Wenger, Die Quellen der romischen Recht (Vienna: Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1953); Franz Wieacker, Textstufen klassicher Juristen (Gottingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1960); Max Kaser, Zur Methodologie der romischen Rechtsquellenforchung (Vienna, Cologne, and Graz: Bohlau, 1972); Max Kaser, Romische Rechtsquellen und angewandte Juristenmethode (Vienna: Bohlau, 1986); Franz Wieacker, Romische Rechtgeschichte I, Quellenkunde, Rechtsbildung, Jurisprudenz und Rechtsliteratur (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1988) and II, Die Jurisprudenz vom frühen Prinzipat bis zum Ausgang der Antike, edited by Joseph Georg Wolf (Munich: Beck Verlag, 2006); Wolfgang Kaiser, Authentizität und Geltung spätantiker Kaisergesetze (Munich: Beck, 2007).
(c) On the spirit of Roman law
Rudolph von Ihering, Geist des romischen Rechts auf den verschiedenen Stufen seiner Entwicklung, 3 vols. (Schwabe: Basilea, 1954); Fritz Schulz, Principles of Roman Law, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967); David Daube, Roman Law, Linguistic, Social and Philosophical Aspects (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969); Peter G. Stein, The Character and Influence of the Roman Civil Law (London: Hambledon, 1988); Juan Iglesias, Espiritu del Derecho romano, 2nd ed. (Madrid: Editorial Centro de Estudios Ramon Areces, 1991); and Alan Watson, The Spirit of Roman Law (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995).
(d) On the Roman constitution and public law
Theodor Mommsen, Romisches Staatsrecht, 3 vols., 2nd ed. (Leipzig: Verlag Von S. Hirzel, 1876, 1888); Francesco de Martino, Storia de la costituzione romana, 6 vols. (Naples: Jovene, 1958-90); Wolfgang Kunkel, An Introduction to Roman Legal and Constitutional History, 2nd ed., translated by J. M. Kelly (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973); Andrew Lintott, Imperium Romanum: Politics and Administration (London and New York: Routledge, 1993); Alberto Burdese, Manuale di diritto pubblico romano, 3rd ed. (Turin: UTET, 1995); Wolfgang Kunkel and Roland Wittmann, Staatsordnung und Staatspraxis der romischen Republik II, Die Magistratur (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1995); Andrew Lintott, The Constitution of the Roman Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); Callie Williamson, The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005); Dean Hammer, Roman Political Thought (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014); and Benjamin Straumann, Crisis and Constitutionalism: Roman Political Thought from the Fall of the Republic to the Age of Revolution (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).
(e) On Roman jurisprudence and Roman jurists
Fritz Schulz, History of Roman Legal Science (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953); Richard A.
Bauman, Lawyers in Roman Republic Politics: A Study of the Roman Jurists in Their Political Setting, 316-82 BC (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1983); Richard A. Bauman, Lawyers in Roman Transitional Politics: A Study of the Roman Jurists in the Political Setting in the Late Republic and Triumvirate (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1985); Bruce W Frier, The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1985); Detlef Liebs, Die Jurisprudenz im spätantiken Italien (260-640 n. Chr.) (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1987); Detlef Liebs, Romische Jurisprudenz in Africa: mit Studien zu den pseudopaulinischen Sentenzen (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1993); Richard A. Bauman, Lawyers and Politics in the Early Roman Empire: A Study of Relations Between the Roman Jurists and the Emperors from Augustus to Hadrian (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1989); Tony Honore, Emperors and Lawyers, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1994); Wolfgang Kunkel, Die romischen Juristen. Herkunft und soziale Stellung, reimpr. 2nd ed. (Cologne and Vienna: Bohlau, 2001); Rafael Domingo, ed., Juristas universales I, Juristas antiguos (Madrid, Barcelona: Marcial Pons, 2004); Detlef Liebs, Hofjuristen der romischen Kaiser bis Justinian (Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Beck Verlag. 2010).(f) On Roman law and society
David Daube, Roman Law: Linguistic, Social, and Philosophical Aspects (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969); Kaius Tuori, Ancient Roman Lawyers and Modern Legal Ideals. Studies on the Impact of Contemporary Concerns in the Interpretation of Ancient Legal History (Frankfurt: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007); John W. Cairns and Paul J. du Plessis, Beyond Dogmatics. Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007); Clifford Ando, Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition (Philadelphia: University of Pennsilvania Press, 2011); Paul J. du Plessis, ed., New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013); Paul du Plessis, Clifford Ando, and Kaius Tuori, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016); Kaius Tuori, The Emperor of Law.
The Emergence of Roman Imperial Adjudication (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017).(g) On medieval Roman law
Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Geschichte des romischen Recht in Mittelalter, 7 vols. (Wiesbaden-Biebrich: Becker & Co., 1834; facsimile edition, Bad Homburg: Hermann Gentner, 1961); Paul Vinogradoff, Roman Law in Medieval Europe (London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909); Francesco Calasso, Medio Evo del diritto (Milan: Giuffre, 1954); Ennio Cortese, Le grandi linee della storia giuridica medievale (Rome: Il Cigno Galileo Galilei, 2001); Hermann Lange, Romisches Recht in Mittelalter I, Die Glossatoren (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1997) and II, Die Kommentatoren, in collaboration with Maximiliane Kriechbaum (Munich: Beck Verlag, 2007); Charles Radding and Antonio Ciaralli, The Corpus Iuris Civilis in the Middle Ages: Manuscripts and Transmissions from the Sixth Century to the Juristic Revival (Leiden: Brill, 2006).
(h) On the contribution of Roman law to European culture
Paul Koschaker, Europa una das romische Recht, 3rd ed. (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1958); Herbert Felix Jolowicz, Roman Foundations of Modern Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957; reprint 1978); Harold J. Berman, Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983); Franz Wieacker, A History of Private Law in Europe, translated by Tony Weir (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Raoul C. van Caenegem, An Historical Introduction to Private Law, translated by D. E. L. Johnston (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992); Manlio Bellomo, The Common Legal Past of Europe, 1000-1800 (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 1995); Raoul C. van Caenegem, European Law in the Past and the Future: Unity and Diversity Over Two Millennia (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002); Laurent Waelkens, Amne Adverso.
Roman Legal Heritage in European Culture, translated by Line Leys (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015).(i) On civil litigation
Giovanni Pugliese, Il proceso civile romano II, Il proceso formulare (Milan: Giufre, 1963); John M. Kelly, Roman Litigation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966); John M. Kelly, Studies in the Civil Judicature of the Roman Republic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976); Jose Luis Murga, El proceso cläsico (Zaragoza: Universidad de Zaragoza, 1980); Carlo Augusto Cannata, Profilo istituzionale del proceso privato romano I, Les legis actiones; II, Il proceso formulare (Turin: Giappichelli, 1980-82); Leopold Wenger, Institutes of Roman Law of Civil Procedure, rev. ed., translated by Otis Harrison Fisk (Littleton, CO: Fred B. Rothman & Co., 1986); Max Kaser and Karl Hackl, Das romische Zivilprozessrecht, 2nd ed. (Munich: Beck Verlag, 1996); Ernest Metzger, A New Outline of Roman Trial (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1997); Roberto Fiori, Ea res agatur: I due modelli del processo formulare repubblicano (Milan: Giuffre, 2003); Ernest Metzger, Litigation in Roman Law (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005); Francesco de Angelis, (ed.), Spaces of Justice in the Roman World (Leiden: Brill, 2010); Detlef Liebs, Summoned to the Roman Courts: Famous Trials from Antiquity (Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, Berkeley, 2012).
(j) On family law and slavery
Alan Watson, The Law of Persons in the Later Roman Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967); Alan Watson, Roman Slave Law (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987); Susan Treggiari, Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian
General bibliography 227 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); Angelika Mette-Dittmann, Die Ehegesetze des Augustus: eine Untersuchung im Rahmen der Gesellschaftspolitik des Princeps (Stuttgart: F. Steiner, 1991); Jane F. Gardner, Being a Roman Citizen (London and New York: Routledge, 1993); Judith Evans Grubbs, Law and Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine's Marriage Legislation (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995); Jane F.
Gardner, Family and “familia” in Roman Law and Life (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1998); Hans-Georg Knothe and Jürgen Kohler, eds., Status Familiae: Festschrift für Andreas Wacke zum 65. Geburtstag am 28. April 2001 (Munich: Beck, 2001); Judith Evans Grubbs, Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: a Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood (London and New York: Routledge, 2002); Hugh Lindsay, Adoption in the Roman World (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009); Beryl Rawson, ed., A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Malden, MA: Wiley- Blackwell, 2011); Christian Laes, Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011); Judith Evans Grubbs and Tim Parkin, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013); Sandra R. Joshel and Lauren Hackworth Petersen, The Material Life of Roman Slaves (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015); John Witte, Jr. and Gary S. Hauk, eds., Christianity and Family Law: An Introduction (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017).(k) On property law
Friedrich Carl von Savigny, Das Recht des Besitzes. Eine civilistische Abhandlung, 6th ed. (Giessen: G. F. Heyer, 1837); Max Kaser, Eigentum und Besitz in älteren romischen Recht, 2nd ed. (Cologne: Bohlau, 1956); Gyorgy Diosdi, Ownership in Ancient and Preclassical Roman Law (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1970); Alan Rodger, Owners and Neighbours in Roman Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972); Alan Watson, The Law of Property in the Later Roman Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968; reprinted Aalen: Scientia Verlag, 1984); Bruce W. Frier, Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980); Michael J. Rainer, Bau- und nachbarrechtliche Bestimmungen im klassischen romischen Recht (Graz: Leykam, 1987); Peter Birks, ed., New Perspectives in the Roman Law of Property. Essays for Barry Nicholas (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989); Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, Proprietà e diritti reali (Rome: Il Cigno Galileo Galilei, 1999); Stefania Romeo, L'appartenenza e l'alienazione in diritto romano: tra giurisprudenza e prassi (Milan: Giuffrè, 2010); Letizia Vacca, Possesso e tempo nell'acquisto della proprietà: saggi romanistici (Padua: CEDAM, 2012); Christopher Pierson, Just Property: A History in the Latin West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013); Paul Erdkamp, Koenraad Verboven, and Arjan Zuiderhoek, Ownership and Exploitation of Land and Natural
Resources in the Roman World (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
(l) On succession upon death
Biondi, Biondo. Successione testamentaria e donazioni (2nd ed. Milan: Giuffrè, 1955); Mario Amelotti, Il testamento romano (Florence: Le Monnier, 1966); Pasquale Voci, Diritto ereditario romano, 2 vol., 2nd ed. (Milano: Giuffrè, 1963, 1967); Gaetano Scherillo, Corso di dirittto romano. Il testamento, 2 vols. (Milan: La Golliardica, 1963, 1967); Alan Watson, The Law of Succession in the Later Roman Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971); David Johnston, The Roman Law of Trusts (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988); Francesca Terranova, Richerche sul testamento per aes et libram. I. Il ruolo del familiae emptor (Turin: G. Giappichelli Editore, 2011); Yuri Gonzalez Roldan, Il diritto ereditario in età adrianea: legislazione imperiale e senatus consulta (Bari: Cacucci, 2014); Kenneth Reid, Marius de Waal, and Reinhard Zimmermann, eds., Comparative Succession Law II, Intestate Succession (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015); Maria Novak, Wills in the Roman Empire: A Documentary Approach (Warsaw: University of Warsaw, 2015).
(m) On obligations
Emilio Betti, La struttura dell'obbligazione romana (Milan: Giuffrè, 1955); Giuseppe Grosso, I sistema romano dei contratti, 3rd ed. (Torino: G. Giappichelli, 1963); Alan Watson, The Law of Obligations in the Later Roman Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965); Gyorgy Diosdi, Contract in Roman Law: From the Twelve Tables to the Glossators, translated by J. Szabo (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1981); Raimondo Santoro, Il contratto nel pensiero di Labeone (Palermo: Palumbo, 1983); Javier Paricio Serrano, ed., Derecho romano de obligaciones. Homenaje al profesor Jose Luis Murga Gener (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Ramon Areces, 1994); Reinhard Zimmermann, The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundation of the Civilian Tradition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); David J. Ibbetson, A Historical Introduction to the Law of Obligations (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999); Teresa Gimenez Candela, Los llamados cuasidelitos (Madrid: Trivium, 1999); Amelia Castresana Herrero, Nuevas lecturas de la responsabilidad aquiliana (Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 2001); Floriana M. Cursi, Iniuria cum damno. Antigiuridicità e colpevolezza nella storia del danno aquiliano (Milan: Giuffrè, 2002); Floriana M. Cursi, Danno e responsabilità extracontrattuale nella storia del diritto privato (Naples: Jovene, 2010); Thomas A. J. McGinn, ed., Obligations in Roman Law: Past, Present, and Future (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2012); Peter Birks, The Roman Law of Obligations, edited by Eric Descheemaeker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014); Adolfo Wegmann Stockebrand, Obligatio re contracta. Ein Beitrag zur sogenannten Kategorie der Realverträge im romischen Recht (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017).
(n) On Roman law of nations
Alan Watson, International Law in Archaic Rome (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993); Dieter Norr, Aspekte des romischen Volkerrechts: die Bronzetafel von Alcantara (Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1989); Dieter Norr, Die Fides in romischen Volkerrecht (Heidelberg: Müller Juristischer Verlag, 1991); Max Kaser, Ius gentium (Vienna, Cologne, and Weimar: Bohlau, 1993); David J. Bederman, International Law in Antiquity (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004); Karl-Hein Ziegler, Volkerrechtsgeschichte, 2nd ed. (Munich: Beck, 2007); Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann, eds., The Roman Foundations of the Law of Nations: Alberico Gentili and the Justice of Empire (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010); Benjamin Straumann, Roman Law in the State of Nature: The Classical Foundations of Hugo Grotius' Natural Law (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015).
(o) On criminal law
Theodor Mommsen, Romisches Strafrecht (Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1899); Ugo Brasiello, La repressione penale nel diritto romano (Naples: Jovene, 1937); Wolfgang Kunkel, Untersuchungen zur Entwicklung des romischen Kriminalverfahrens in vorsullanischer Zeit (Munich: Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1962); Bernardo Santalucia, Studi di diritto penale romano (Roma: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 1994); Wilfried Nippel, Public Order in Ancient Rome (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995); Olivia F. Robinson, The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995); Richard A. Bauman, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Roman Law (London and New York: Routledge, 1996); Bernardo Santalucia, Diritto e processo penale nell'antica Roma, 2d ed. (Milan: Giuffre, 1998); Olivia Robinson, Penal Practice and Penal Policy in Ancient Rome (London and New York: Routledge, 2007); Jill D. Harries, Law and Crime in the Roman World (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007); Bernardo Santalucia (ed.), La repressione criminale nella Roma repubblicana: fra norma e persuasion (Pavia: IUSS Press, 2009).
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