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ROMAN LAW &SOCIETY
Texts: J. A. Crook, Law and Life of Rome, 90 B. C. -A.D. 212 (Ithaca 1967).
H. F. Jolowicz and B. Nicholas Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law ,3rd ed. (Cambridge 1972) (selections).
The Twelve Tables.
The Institutes of Gaius (selections).
The Institutes of Justinian (selections).
Week 1: Introduction
Outline of the course.
Role of law in society and ancient cultures.
Social basis of law at Rome.
Role of oratory and iuris consultii in Roman life.
Landmarks of Roman law.
Roman legal science and its transmission to the modern world.
The Law of the Twelves Tables -law in archaic Rome.
Readings: The Law of the Twelve Tables
Week 2: Survey of Legal History of Rome /Sources of Law
Sources for the development of law: Regal, Republican law.
Development of Public Law during the Republic.
Role of magistrates, assemblies and senate.
Lex and Plebiscitum ,Interpretatio, Ius honorarium ,Edicta magistratuum
Custom
Public Law: Republic, Principate, Dominate.
Private Law: Persons, Family, Property, Obligations, Procedure.
Criminal Law: Regal, Republican, Imperial.
Sources of Law in the Principate: the Classical Age of Roman Law
The Dominate and the Age of Codification.
Survey of Roman procedure and litigation.
Procedure in Early Rome:
Summons (in ius vocatio ).
Trial (in iure and apud iudicem ).
Execution (in rem and in personam ).
Procedure in the Late-Republic:
Leges actiones.
Development of per condictionem, per sponsionem ,etc.
Centumviral and Decemviral courts.
Development of the Formulary System (Praetorian Edict).
Procedure in the Empire:
Cognitio extraordinaria.
Appeal and execution.
Provincial developments.
Week 3: The Republican Constitution
Struggle of the Orders.
Assemblies of the People.
Senate.
Magistracies.
Italy and the provinces.
The Revolutionary Period.
Week 4: The Imperial Constitution
Status and powers of the Princeps.