Anderson Craig. Roman Law for Scots Law Students. Edinburgh University Press,2021. — 496 p.. 2021

This book is aimed primarily at students of law in Scottish universities, who are either studying Roman law for its own sake, or who are exploring the con­nections between Roman and modern law. The experienced reader may ask why such a book is necessary. After all, there exist already student textbooks on Roman law that are of undoubted excellence. It must be said, though, that the existing textbooks that are available in English tend not to have much to say about Scotland. Where they talk about modern law, this is much more likely to be English law than Scots law. However, the much greater importance of Roman law in the development of the Scottish legal tradition, compared with that south of the border, means that students of Scots law have special needs in this regard. While we are fortunate to live in a time when there is a growing body of first-class scholarly literature on Scots law and its history — a greater body than at any previous time — most of this is at an advanced level. There is very little for the beginner or for the non-expert. It has seemed to me since I was an undergraduate law student that there has been an urgent need for a textbook on Roman law written with the Scots law student in mind. When Edinburgh University Press expressed a willingness to consider publishing such a book, I was therefore delighted to take up this task. I have been very grateful for their patient support through the whole process of writing the book.

Books and textbooks on the discipline Roman law:

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2. Anderson Craig. Roman Law Essentials. Edinburgh University Press,2018. — 144 p. - 2018 ãîä
3. Johnson David (ed). The Cambridge companion to Roman Law. Cambridge University Press,2015. — 554 p. - 2015 ãîä
4. Hausmaninger H., Gamauf R.. A Casebook on Roman Property Law. Oxford University Press,2013. — 371 p. - 2013 ãîä
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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