The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society

Rupert Jackson, Classics for All a treasure trove for anyone with a serious interest in Roman history or Roman law.

Phillip Taylor MBE and Elizabeth Taylor of Richmond Green Chambers Legions, you might say, of fascinating insights are contained in this book

Paul du Plessis is a legal historian whose research interests include Roman law, medieval interpretations of Roman law, Roman-Dutch law, the historical development of the civilian tradition in mixed jurisdictions, the relationship between law and history as well as between law and society in a historical context. He is a member of various organizations dedicated to the study of legal history, sometime webmaster of the Centre for Legal History at Edinburgh University and convener of the Edinburgh Roman Law Group. He is co-author of the Edinburgh Legal History Blog. He is the general editor (with Thomas McGinn) of the monograph series Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law. Clifford Ando is an historian of government, law, and religion specializing in the ancient Mediterranean between the late Hellenistic and late Roman periods. He has particular interests in contemporary social and political theory, public law, practices of legal interpretation, and metaphor and cognition. Dr. Kaius Tuori is currently an Academy of Finland Research Fellow. His research interests include legal history, Roman law, legal anthropology, classical archaeology, and their intellectual history. In addition to four books, his work has been published in Law, Culture and the Humanities, The Journal of Legal History, the Journal of Legal Pluralism, Revue internationale des droits de l'Antiquite and the Legal History Review. He holds a doctorate in Law and a M.A. in History from his studies at the universities of Helsinki, Finland, and La Sapienza in Rome, Italy.

PART I: INTRODUCTION ; PART II: READING ROMAN LAW ; PART III: THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE OF THE ROMAN STATE ; PART IV: LEGAL PROFESSIONALS AND LEGAL CULTURE ; PART V: SETTLING DISPUTES ; CIVIL ACTIONS AND CIVIL PROCEDURE ; CRIMINAL LAW AND SOCIAL ORDER ; PART VI PERSONS BEFORE THE LAW ; STATUS ; GENDER ; PART VII LEGAL RELATIONS ; PERSONS AND FAMILY ; PROPERTY ; OBLIGATIONS ; ECONOMICS