Further Reading
There are many excellent introductions to Roman law. An accessible overview of the entire subject with chapters devoted to each of the various substantive areas of Roman law is Andrew Borkowski and Paul du Plessis, Textbook on Roman Law, 4th ed.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. The same text can serve as a sourcebook of representative texts and is accompanied by a website at http:// www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199276073. David Johnston’s Roman Law in Context, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, is a concise introduction to the social and economic setting of Roman law in the classical period. For the institutional and political history of Roman law in antiquity, see H. F. Jolowicz, Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law, 3rd ed. by B. Nicholas, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972. The sources of Roman law in three different senses—the legal, the historical, and the published—are helpfully identified and described by O. F. Robinson, The Sources of Roman Law: Problems and Methods for Ancient Historians. London: Routledge, 1997. For the subsequent history of the Roman legal tradition, see R. C. van Caenegem, An Historical Introduction to Private Law, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992; P. Stein, Roman Law in European History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Corrections to the English translation of The Digest of Justinian, ed. A. Watson, rev. English- language edition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998, continue to be posted on the ius civile website maintained by Professor Ernest Metzger at http:// iuscivile.com/materials/digest. A useful translation of Justinian’s Institutes is P. Birks and G. McLeod, Justinian’s Institutes, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987.
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