Roman Law and Maritime Commerce

Peter Candy is an Assistant Professor in Civil Law at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. His research interests include Roman legal and economic history, with a focus on the relationship between economic development and legal change during the last centuries of the Roman Republic. Peter co-edited, with Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Roman Law and Maritime Commerce (EUP, 2022). Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is Maria Zambrano Fellow in the Law faculty at the University of the Basque Country (Euskal herriko Unibertsitatea), and a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster. She holds PhDs in both Roman law and archaeology from the Universities of Alicante and Palermo (2014) and Southampton and Lyon 2 (2018) respectively. Her research interests lie in the field of Roman law, with a particular focus upon its commercial and maritime aspects.

• 1. Introduction: Roman Law and Maritime CommercePeter Candy and Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz2. Aspects of the Origins of Roman Maritime TradeGabriele Cifani3. Contingent Seas: Seafaring, Contracts and LawPeter B. Campbell4. Pirates’ Captives in the Light of Roman LawAnna Tarwacka5. The Personal Infrastructure of Maritime TradeAnnalisa Marzano6. On Dressel 20 and Beyond. Management, Punishment and Protection in the context of Roman Imperial Oil DistributionEmilia Mataix Ferrándiz7. Roman Documentation Concerning Shipping in BulkGianfranco Purpura8. Loans and Securities: Tracing Maritime Trade in the Archive of the SulpiciiÉva Jakab9. Credit for Carriage: TPSulp. 78 and P. Oxy. XLV 3250Peter Candy10. The Allocation of Risk in Carriage-by-Sea ContractsRoberto Fiori