Hausmaninger H., Gamauf R.. A Casebook on Roman Property Law. Oxford University Press,2013. — 371 p.. 2013

The term “Roman law” is commonly used in a variety of senses. Most literally, it refers simply to the law that regulated aspects of the lives of the citizens of ancient Rome. In this historical sense, Roman law was of course not something that remained always the same over time and place. It was an evolving tradition of substantive rules, legal procedure, and implicit or explicit policy goals. Two sets of events are commonly, even if somewhat arbitrarily, taken to mark the historical bookends of this tradition in antiquity. At the beginning of the tradition is the publication in written form of a body of customary rules and procedures that collectively constitute the “Law of the Twelve Tables” (“tables” being a translation of Latin tabulae, referring to large panels upon which the laws were said to have been inscribed originally). According to tradition, this publication (actually a two- step process involving first ten tables and then two more) took place in 450 bce, a time when Rome itself was scarcely more than a moderately sized town with a river port and surrounding agricultural land. Jumping ahead nearly 1,000 years, we come to the other bookend: the summative revision and restatement of Roman law that was promulgated between 529 and 534 ce in Constantinople at the command of the emperor Justinian. The intervening millennium witnessed the growth and decline of an empire that, at its apogee in the early second century ce, encompassed a territory of over 2 million square miles, within which there lived a population of perhaps 60 millions. In terms of legal development, the same millennium was marked by (1) the passage of thousands of legislative enactments—initially and quite sparingly by the assemblies of the Roman Republic, later and more frequently by a long line of Roman emperors; (2) the emergence and refinement of a body of procedural law within the competence of judicial magistrates—especially the Urban and Peregrine Praetors of the later Roman Republic and early Empire; and (3) the production of a professional legal literature in the forms of learned commentary to statutory and edictal law, responsa to particular cases (both actual and hypothetical), and pedagogical treatises. Notwithstanding this rich history, the essential unity of the Roman legal tradition can be documented by the fact that various provisions of the Twelve Tables could still be cited as valid law in the Justinianic restatement.

Books and textbooks on the discipline Roman law:

1. Anderson Craig. Roman Law for Scots Law Students. Edinburgh University Press,2021. — 496 p. - 2021 ãîä
2. Alessandri Sergio (ed.). Aemilius Macer: De officio praesidis. Ad legem XX hereditatium. De re militari. De appellationibus. Roma – Bristol: L'Erma di Bretschneider,2020. — 198 p. - 2020 ãîä
3. Anderson Craig. Roman Law Essentials. Edinburgh University Press,2018. — 144 p. - 2018 ãîä
4. Johnson David (ed). The Cambridge companion to Roman Law. Cambridge University Press,2015. — 554 p. - 2015 ãîä
5. Frier Bruce W., McGinn Thomas A.J.. A casebook on Roman family law. Oxford University Press,2004. — xxi+506 p. - 2004 ãîä
6. Johnston D.. Roman Law in Context. Cambridge University Press,2004. — 165 p. - 2004 ãîä
7. Grubbs J.E.. Women and the Law in the Roman Empire. Routledge,2002. — 374 p. - 2002 ãîä
8. Lewis A.D.E., Ibbetson D.J.. The Roman Law Tradition. Cambridge University Press,1994. — 234 p. - 1994 ãîä
9. Harries J., Wood I. (eds.). The Theodosian Code. Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity. Duckworth & Co. Ltd,1993. — 266 p. - 1993 ãîä
10. Linder A.. The Jews in Roman imperial legislation. Wayne State University Press,1987. — 437 p. - 1987 ãîä
11. Garnsey Peter. Social status and legal privilege in the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press,1970. — 335 p. - 1970 ãîä
12. Duff Patrick William. Personality in Roman Private Law. Augustus M. Kelley,1938. — 250 p. - 1938 ãîä