Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Ph.D. (1982), University of Amsterdam, is Associate Professor Emerita of Legal History at Tilburg Law School. She has published extensively on Roman law and rhetoric as found in the works of Cicero, Quintilian, and the classical Roman jurists.Jan Willem Tellegen, Ph.D. (1982), University of Amsterdam, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Legal History at Utrecht Law School. He has published extensively on Roman law and rhetoric as found in the works of Cicero, Pliny the Younger, and the classical Roman jurists.

• Preface1 Introduction1 The Research Topic: The Use of topoi and theseis in Legal Argumentation2 Roman Law and Legal Science3 The Two Histories of Roman Law4 Romanist Research5 Our Research2 Cicero’s Topica and Trebatius Testa1 Topos and Thesis2 Cicero’s Topica3 Cicero’s Topica and Aristotle’s Topike and Rhetorike4 Cicero’s Topica and Roman Law5 Cicero’s Topica and Trebatius Testa3 Quintus Mucius Scaevola pontifex: Jurist and Orator1 Scaevola’s Advocacy in the causa Curiana2 The topos in maiore minus inest in D. 32.29.14 D. 50.17 De diversis regulis iuris antiqui – Introduction5 The status coniectura: The topos causa1 Ulpianus D. 50.17.132 Ulpianus D. 50.17.313 Ulpianus D. 50.17.354 Paulus D. 50.17.167.15 Paulus D. 50.17.1806 The status definitio: The topos e contraria1 Pomponius D. 50.17.72 Paulus D. 50.17.103 Paulus D. 50.17.294 Modestinus D. 50.17.1957 The status definitio: The topos e consequentibus – Scaevola D. 50.17.888 The status definitio: The topos a repugnantibus1 Ulpianus D. 50.17.42 Papinianus D. 50.17.743 Papinianus D. 50.17.759 The status qualitas: The topos comparatio1 Ulpianus D. 50.17.92 Ulpianus D. 50.17.213 Gaius D. 50.17.1134 Ulpianus D. 50.17.156.110 The status qualitas: ambiguitas1 Pomponius D. 50.17.202 Iulianus D. 50.17.643 Marcellus D. 50.17.192.111 Paulus D. 50.17.1 and the regula Catoniana1 Paulus D. 50.17.1.2 The regula Catoniana3 Primary Sources on the regula Catoniana3.1 The Five Texts in Title D. 34.7 De regula Catoniana3.2 The regula Catoniana Outside Title D. 34.73.3 Texts Whose Wording Recalls the regula Catoniana4 The regula Catoniana as a Dubious thesis5 The regula Catoniana and D. 50.17.112 Conclusion1 Cicero’s Topica and Trebatius Testa (Chapter 2)2 Quintus Mucius Scaevola pontifex: Jurist and orator (Chapter 3)3 The regulae in D. 50.17 (Chapter 4)4 Coniectura (Chapter 5)5 Definitio (Chapters 6–8)6 Qualitas (Chapter 9)7 Ambiguitas (Chapter 10)8 D. 50.17.1 and the regula Catoniana (Chapter 11)9 So Long to a Paradigm?BibliographyIndex