John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh

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• PrefacePart I: Debates and ContextsIntroduction: Themes and LiteratureJ. Cairns and P. J. du Plessis1. Law and SocietyA. WatsonPart II: Law and Empire2. Legal Pluralism and the Roman EmpiresK. Tuori3. Diplomatics, Law and Romanization in the Documents from the Judaean DesertE. A. MeyerPart III: Law Codes and Codification4. Roman Law Codes and the Roman Legal TraditionJ. Harries5. Diocletian and the Efficacy of Public LawR. ReesPart IV: Death, Economics and Succession6. The Dutiful Legatee: Pliny, Letters V.1A. D. E. Lewis7. The Hereditability of Locatio ConductioP. J. du PlessisPart V: Commerce and Law8. Dealing with the Abyss: the Nature and Purpose of the Rhodian Sea-Law on Jettison (Lex Rhodia de Iactu, D. 14.2) and the Making of Justinian's DigestJ-J Aubert9. Suing the Paterfamilias: Theory and PracticeD. JohnstonPart VI: Procedure10. Lawsuits in ContextE. Metzger11. The Role of DelatorsO. F. RobinsonIndex

John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh

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• PrefacePart I: Debates and ContextsIntroduction: Themes and LiteratureJ. Cairns and P. J. du Plessis1. Law and SocietyA. WatsonPart II: Law and Empire2. Legal Pluralism and the Roman EmpiresK. Tuori3. Diplomatics, Law and Romanization in the Documents from the Judaean DesertE. A. MeyerPart III: Law Codes and Codification4. Roman Law Codes and the Roman Legal TraditionJ. Harries5. Diocletian and the Efficacy of Public LawR. ReesPart IV: Death, Economics and Succession6. The Dutiful Legatee: Pliny, Letters V.1A. D. E. Lewis7. The Hereditability of Locatio ConductioP. J. du PlessisPart V: Commerce and Law8. Dealing with the Abyss: the Nature and Purpose of the Rhodian Sea-Law on Jettison (Lex Rhodia de Iactu, D. 14.2) and the Making of Justinian's DigestJ-J Aubert9. Suing the Paterfamilias: Theory and PracticeD. JohnstonPart VI: Procedure10. Lawsuits in ContextE. Metzger11. The Role of DelatorsO. F. RobinsonIndex

John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh

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• PrefacePart I: Debates and ContextsIntroduction: Themes and LiteratureJ. Cairns and P. J. du Plessis1. Law and SocietyA. WatsonPart II: Law and Empire2. Legal Pluralism and the Roman EmpiresK. Tuori3. Diplomatics, Law and Romanization in the Documents from the Judaean DesertE. A. MeyerPart III: Law Codes and Codification4. Roman Law Codes and the Roman Legal TraditionJ. Harries5. Diocletian and the Efficacy of Public LawR. ReesPart IV: Death, Economics and Succession6. The Dutiful Legatee: Pliny, Letters V.1A. D. E. Lewis7. The Hereditability of Locatio ConductioP. J. du PlessisPart V: Commerce and Law8. Dealing with the Abyss: the Nature and Purpose of the Rhodian Sea-Law on Jettison (Lex Rhodia de Iactu, D. 14.2) and the Making of Justinian's DigestJ-J Aubert9. Suing the Paterfamilias: Theory and PracticeD. JohnstonPart VI: Procedure10. Lawsuits in ContextE. Metzger11. The Role of DelatorsO. F. RobinsonIndex