Textbooks on Roman law

The worldwide leading handbook and most comprehensive modern (but not updated) account on Roman law is that of Max Kaser, Das romische Privatrecht: vol. I, Das altromische, das vorklassische und klassische Recht, 2nd ed.

A recent original textbook that covers a great variety of topics beyond traditional private law was edited by David Johnston, The Cambridge Com­panion to Roman Law (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015). Another fresh, useful, and unconventional volume, aimed at

General bibliography 221 bringing to bear on Roman law the full range of resources of contemporary legal history, was edited by Clifford Ando, Paul J. du Plessis, and Kaius Tuori, The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).

The leading textbook in English was for decades that of William Warwick Buckland, A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian, 3rd ed., edited by Peter Stein (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963). Excellent, challenging, and sometimes even provocative is Fritz Schulz, Classical Roman Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press: 1951; 2nd ed., edited by Wolfgang Ernst [Aalen: Scientia, 1992]).

A good account of Roman law from a historical perspective is offered by H. F. Holowicz and Barry Nicholas, Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law, 3rd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972). A comprehensive handbook on the law of obligations including the civil legal tradition is that of Reinhard Zimmermann, The Law of Obligations: Roman Foundations of the Civilian Tradition (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). A textbook with a good selection of primary text in English translation is that of A. Arthur Schiller, Roman Law. Mechanisms of Development (The Hague, Paris, and New York: Mouton Publishers, 1978). To know how Roman law affected the Roman citizens in their day-to-day activities, see John A. Crook, Law and Life of Rome (90 BC-AD 212) (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984).

The popular Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law has been edited by Paul du Plessis, 5th ed. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015). Recent textbooks include David Johnston, Roman Law in Context (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999); Andrew M. Riggsby, Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); George Mousourakis, Fundamentals of Roman Private Law (Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2012); and Laurent Waelkens, Amne Adverso: Roman Legal Heritage in European Culture, trans­lated by Line Leys (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2015).

Brief entries on Roman law concepts and terminology can be found in Adolf Berger, Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law (Philadelphia, PA: America Philosophical Society, 1953; reimpr., Clark, NJ: The Law Exchange, Ltd., 2004).

Solid and clear Spanish textbooks on Roman law include the following: Alvaro d’Ors, Derecho privado romano, 10th ed., edited by Xavier d’Ors (Pamplona: Eunsa, 2004); Juan Iglesias, Derecho romano, 17th ed., edited by Juan Iglesias Redondo (Barcelona: Ariel 2008); Alejandro Guzman, Derecho privado romano, 2 vols. (Santiago de Chile: Editorial Juridica de Chile, 1996); Manuel J. Garcia Garrido, Derecho privado romano (Madrid: Ediciones Academicas, 2010); Amelia Castresana, Derecho romano. El arte de lo bueno y de lo justo (Madrid: Tecnos, 2015); Alejandrino Fernandez Barreiro y Javier Paricio, Fundamentos de Derecho privado Romano, 2nd ed. (Madrid and Barcelona: Marcial Pons, 2016). On Roman public law, see: Antonio Fernandez de Bujan, Derecho publico romano 19th ed. (Madrid: Thomson Civitas, 2016). On obligations, see: Javier Paricio Serrano, ed. Derecho romano de obliga- ciones. Homenaje al profesor Jose Luis Murga Gener (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Ramon Areces, 1994). For a selection and commentary of more than a thousand legal maxims and aphorisms, see Rafael Domingo, Javier Ortega, Beatriz Rodriguez Antolin, and Nicolas Zambrana, Principios de Derecho Global. 1000 reglas y aforismos juridicos comentados, 3rd ed. (Cizur Menor: Thomson Aranzadi, 2006).

Classical and recent Italian accounts on Roman law abound. See, among others: Pietro Bonfante, Corso di diritto romano, 5 vols. (Roma: Sampaolesi, 1925-33); Vincenzo Arangio Ruiz, Istituzioni di diritto romano, 14th ed. (Naples: Jovene, 1960); Giovanni Pugliesse, in collaboration with Francesco Sitzia and Letizia Vacca, Istituzioni di diritto romano (Padova: Piccin, 1986); Mario Talamanca, Istituzioni di diritto romano (Milan: Giufrè, 1990); Alberto Burdese, Manuale di diritto privato romano, 4th ed.

In French, see: Edouard Cuq, Les institutions juridiques des romains, 2 vols. (Paris: Libraire Plon, Libraire Marescq Aine, 1902); Jean Gaudemet, Droit prive romain (Paris: Montchrestien, 2000); Paul Freederic Girard, Manuel elementaire de droit romain, 8th ed. (Paris: Dalloz 2003); Michel Villey, Le droit romain (Paris: Presses Universitaires de la France, 2012); Bruno Schmidlin, Droit prive romain I, 2nd ed. (Basel: Helbing Lichtenhanh Verlag, 2012); Jean-Philippe Dunand, Bruno Schmidlin, and Benedict Winiger, Droit prive romain II, Obligations, 2nd ed. (Basel: Helbing Lichtenhanh Verlag, 2012); and Rene Robaye, Le droit romain, 5th ed. (Leuven: Academia, 2016).

In German, along with the textbook by Max Kaser mentioned above, the following accounts are very helpful: Paul Jors, Wolfgang Kunkel, and Leopold Wenger, Romisches Recht, 4th ed., edited by Heinrich Honsell, Theo Mayer- Maly, and Walter Selb (Berlin, Heidelberg, and Vienna: Springer, 1987); Theo Mayer-Maly, Romisches Recht, 2nd ed. (Berlin and Vienna: Springer, 1999); Alfons Bürge, Romisches Recht (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchge­sellschaft, 1999); Detlef Liebs, Romisches Recht, 6th ed. (Gottingen: Vanderhoek & Ruprecht, 2004); Max Kaser and Rolf Knütel, Romisches Privatrecht. Ein Studienbuch, 20th ed. (Munich: Beck Verlag, 2013); Heinrich Honsell, Romisches Recht, 8th ed. (Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer, 2013); Peter Apathy, Georg Klingenberg, and Martin Pennitz, Einführung in das romische Recht, 6th ed. (Vienna: Bohlau, 2016).

Casebooks on Roman law include: Bruce W Frier, A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict (Atlanta, GA: Scholars Press, 1989); Bruce W Frier and Thomas A. J. McGinn, A Casebook on Roman Family Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); Herbert Hausmaninger and Richard Gamauf, A Casebook on Roman Property Law, translated by George A. Sheets (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

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