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I am very grateful to Professor Bernard Hibbitts, Associate Dean For Communications and Information Technology, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, on whose work--by permission--these bibliographies are based. Professor Hibbitts maintains updated versions of definitive ancient law bibliographies at Ancient Law Readings. See also Professor Hibbitts' valuable Ancient Law Connections

General/Comparative

/Anthropology of Law

Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Israel

Greek Law

Roman Law


A. General/Comparative/Anthropology of Law

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Baruch, B. and D. Halpern, eds., Law, Politics, and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World. 1993

Buckland, W.W. and A. McNair, Roman Law and Common Law. A Comparison in Outline. 1936

Droits de l'Antiquité et Sociologie Juridique. Mélanges Henri Lévy-Bruhl. Paris, 1959

Kunkel, W., "Legal Thought in Greece and Rome", Juridical Review 1 (1953)

Levmore, S., "Rethinking Comparative Law: Variety and Uniformity in Ancient and Modern Tort Law", Tulane Law Review, 61 (1986) 235

Levmore, S., "Rethinking Group Responsibility and Strategic Threats in Biblical Texts and Modern Law", Chicago-Kent Law Review , 71 (1995) 85

Maine, H., Ancient Law. repr. London, 1972

Moore, S.F., Law as Process. An Anthropological Approach. London, 1978

Nader L. and H.F. Todd, eds., The Disputing Process--Law in Ten Societies. N.Y., 1978

Pound, R., "What is a profession? The Rise of the Legal Profession in Antiquity," Notre Dame Lawyer 19 (1944) 203-28

Rosen, L., The Anthropology of Justice. Law as Culture in Islamic Society. 1989

Tobin, V., "Ma'at and Dike: Some Comparative Considerations of Egyptian and Greek Thought", Journal of the American Research Center of Egypt 24 (1987) 113

Watson, A., The Evolution of Law. 189

Watson, A., Roman Law and Comparative Law. 1991

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B. Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Anatolia, Israel

See also Professor Hibbitts: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ancient Israel, Hittite Law.

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1. Edited Collections, Handbooks

Beckman, G. Hittite Diplomatic Texts. 1996

Breasted, J.H., Ancient Records of Egypt . 1935

Driver G.R. and J.C. Miles, The Babylonian Laws . 1952

Goetze, A. trans., "The Hittite Laws", in J. B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts. 1950, 1955.

Lewis, N., ed., Judaean Desert Studies: The Documents from the Bar Kokhba Period in the Cave of Letters, Greek Papyri. 1989

Neufeld, E., The Hittite Laws. 1951

Patrick, D., Old Testament Law. 1985

Pirenne, J. and A. Theodorides, Droit Egyptien. 1966

Pirenne, J., Histoire des institutions et du droit privé de l'ancienne Egypte. 1932-5

Pritchard, J. B. ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 1950, 1955. (Incl. the 'Code of Hammurapi' and others)

Pritchard, J. B. ed., The Ancient Near East. An Anthology of Texts and Pictures. 2 vols. 1958. (Incl. the 'Code of Hammurapi' and others)

Roth M. ed., Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor . 1995

 

2. Studies

Aldred, C. , "More Light on the Ramesside Tomb Robberies", in J. Ruffle et al., eds., Glimpses of Ancient Egypt. 1979

Ali, F. A., "Blowing the Horn for Official Announcement", Sumer 20 (1964) 66

Allam, S. , "Legal Aspects in the Contendings of Horus and Seth'", in Alan B. Lloyd, ed., Studies in Pharaonic Religion and Society in Honour of J. Gwyn Griffiths. 1992

Anthes, R., "The Legal Aspect of the Instruction of Amenemhet", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 16 (1957) 176

Baines, J. "Literacy in Ancient Egyptian Society", Man 18 (1983) 572

Blackman, A. M. , "Oracles in Ancient Egypt", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 11 (1925) 249

Boecker, H. J., Law and the Administration of Justice in the Old Testament and Ancient East. 1980

Boorn, G.P.F. van den, "Wd-ryt and Justice at the Gate", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 44 (1985) 1

Boorn, G.P.F. van den, The Duties of the Vizier: Civil Adminstration in the Early New Kingdom. 1988

Bottero, J., "The Code' of Hammurabi", in Mesopotamia, Writing, Reasoning and the Gods. 1993. Pp. 156-184

Buchholz, T., "Biblical Laws and the Economic Growth of Ancient Israel", Journal of Law and Religion 6 (1988) 389

Buck, A. de , "The Judicial Papyrus of Turin", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 23 (1937) 152

Capart, J., A.H. Gardiner and B. van de Walle, "New Light on the Ramesside Tomb-Robberies", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 22 (1936) 169

Carmichael, C. M., Law and Narrative in the Bible. 1985

Cerny, J. , "The Will of Naunakhte and the Related Documents", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 31 (1945) 29

Daube, D. , Ancient Jewish Law.1981

Daube, D. , Studies in Biblical Law.1947

Donbaz, V., "A Middle Babylonian Legal Document Raising Problems in Kassite Chronology", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 41 (1982) 207

Dorff, E. N. and Arthur Rosett, A Living Tree: The Roots and Growth of Jewish Law. 1988

Eichler, B.L., "Literary Structure in the Laws of Eshnunna", in Language, Literature and History.1987

Ellickson, R. C. and Charles DiA Thorland, "Ancient Land Law: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel", Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1995) 321

Eyre, C.J. , "Crime and Adultery in Ancient Egypt", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 70 (1984) 92

Falk, Z.W., Hebrew Law in Biblical Times. 1964

Finkelstein, J.J., "An Old Babylonian Herding Contract and Genesis 31:38f", Journal of the American Oriental Society 88 (1968) 30

Finkelstein, J.J., "On Some Recent Studies in Cuneiform Law", Journal of the American Oriental Society 90 (1970) 243

Finkelstein, J.J., "Sex Offenses in Sumerian Laws", Journal of the American Oriental Society 86 (1966) 355

Finkelstein, J.J., "Some New Misharum Material and Its Implications", in Studies in Honor of Benno Landsberger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday.1965

Finkelstein, J.J., "The Laws of Ur-Nammu", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 22 (1969) 66

Finkelstein, J.J., "Ammisaduqa' Edict and the Babylonian Law Codes'", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 15 (1961) 91

Finkelstein, J.J., "Law in the Ancient Near East", Encyclopedia Biblica 5 (1968), reprinted in A. M. Schreiber, ed., Jewish Law and Decision-Making: A Study Through Time. 1979

Gamoran, H., "The Biblical Law Against Loans on Interest", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 30 (1971) 127

Gardiner, A. H. , "A Lawsuit Arising from the Purchase of Two Slaves", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 21 (1935) 140

Gardiner, A. H. , The Inscription of Mes: A Contribution to the Study of Egyptian Judicial Procedure. 1905

Goetze, A., "Mesopotamian Laws and the Historian", Journal of the American Oriental Society 69 (1949) 115

Good, E. M., "Capital Punishment and its Alternatives in Ancient Near Eastern Law", Stanford Law Review 19 (1967) 947

Gordon, C., Hammurapi's Code: Quaint or Forward Looking? 1957

Greenberg, M. , "Some Postulates of Biblical Criminal Law", in Essential Papers on Israel and the Ancient Near East (1991) 33

Greengus, S., "Some Issues Relating to the Comparability of Laws and the Coherence of the Legal Tradition", in Bernard M. Levinson ed., Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law. 1994

Greengus, S., "The Old Babylonian Marriage Contract", Journal of the American Oriental Society 89 (1969) 505

Griffiths, J. Gwyn , "Isis as Maat, Dikaiosune, and Justitia", in Catherine Berger et al. eds., Hommages a Jean Leclant. 1994. Vol. 3

Gurney, O.R. , "Laws and Institutions", in The Hittites. 1981

Gurney, O.R. and S.N. Kramer, "Two Fragments of Sumerian Laws", Assyriological Studies 16 (1965) 13

Guterbock, H.G. , "Authority and Law in the Hittite Kingdom", Journal of the American Oriental Society 40 (1954) 16

Halvini, D. W., Midrash, Mishnah and Gemara: The Jewish Predeliction for Justified Law. 1986

Harris, R., "On the Process of Secularization Under Hammurapi", Journal of Cuneiform Studies 14 (1961) 117

Harris, R., "The Case of Three Babylonian Marriage Contracts", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 33 (1974) 363

Hiers, R. H., "Transfer of Property by Inheritance and Bequest in Biblical Law and Tradition", Journal of Law and Religion 10 (1993) 121

Hillers, D. R., "Rite: Ceremonies of Law and Treaty in the Ancient Near East", in Religion and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives. 1990

Jackson, B. S., "Ideas of Law and Legal Administration: A Semiotic Approach", in R.E. Clements ed., The World of Ancient Israel: Sociological, Anthropological and Political Perspectives. 1989

Jackson, B. S., "Legalism and Spirituality", in Religion and Law: Biblical-Judaic and Islamic Perspectives. 1990

Jackson, B. S., "Modelling Biblical Law: The Covenant Code", Chicago-Kent Law Review 70 (1995) 1745

Jackson, B. S., "Practical Wisdom and Literary Artifice in the Covenant Code", Jewish Law Association Studies 6 (1992) 65

Jackson, B.S. , "Principles and Cases: The Theft Laws of Hammurabi", Irish Jurist 7 (1972) 161

Jacobsen, T. , "An Ancient Mesopotamian Trial for Homicide", in A. M. Schreiber ed., Jewish Law and Decision-Making: A Study Through Time. 1979

James, T.G.H., Pharoah's People: Scenes from Life in Imperial Egypt. 1984. Chs. 2,3

Lemche, N. P. , "Justice in Western Asia in Antiquity, or Why No Laws Were Needed!", Chicago-Kent Law Review 70 (1995) 1695

Lieberman, S. J. , "Nippur: City of Decisions", in Maria deJong Ellis ed., Nippur at the Centennial. 1992

Liebesny, H. , "Evidence in Nuzi Legal Procedure", Journal of the American Oriental Society 61 (1941) 130

Loewenstraum, S.E. , "Law", in Benjamin Mazar, ed., World History of the Jewish People: Ancient Times. 1971

Lorton, D. "The Treatment of Criminals in Ancient Egypt", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 20 (1977) 2

Mackenzie, R.A.F. , "The Formal Aspect of Ancient Near Eastern Law", in W.S. McCullough, ed., The Seed of Wisdom: Essays in Honour of T.J. Meek. 1964

Magnetti, D. L. , "'Oath-Functions' and the 'Oath Process' in the Civil and Criminal Law of the Ancient Near East", Brooklyn Journal of International Law 5 (1979) 1

Michalowski, P. , "Writing and Literacy in Early States: A Mesopotamianist Perspective", in Literacy: Interdisciplinary Conversations. 1994

Milgrom, J., "The Legal Terms Slm and Brsw in the Bible", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 35 (1976) 271

Miller, G. P., "Contracts of Genesis", Journal of Legal Studies 22 (1993) 15

Muffs, Y., Love & Joy: Law, Language and Religion in Ancient Israel. 1992

Otto, E., "Aspects of Legal reforms and Reformulations in Ancient Cuneiform and Israelite Law", in Bernard M. Levinson ed., Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law. 1994

Parker, R. A., A Saite Oracle Papyrus from Thebes. 1962

Peet, T. Eric, The Great Tomb-Robberies of the Twentieth Egyptian Dynasty. 1930

Pestman, P.W., "The Law of Succession in Ancient Egypt", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 20 (1977) 2

Pestman, P.W., Marriage and Matrimonial Property in Ancient Egypt. 1961

Pfluger, K., "The Edict of King Haremhab", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 5 (1946) 260

Phillips, A. , Ancient Israel's Criminal Law.1970

Postgate, J.N., "Laws and the Law", in Early Mesopotamia: Society and Economy at the Dawn of History (1992) 275-291

Renger, J. M. "Institutional, Communal and Individual Ownership or Possession of Arable Land in Ancient Mesopotamia from the End of the Fourth to the End of the First Millenium BC", Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1995) 269

Riemschneider, K. K. , "Prison and Punishment in Early Anatolia", Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 20 (1977) 114

Robins, G., "The Economic and Legal Position of Women", in Women in Ancient Egypt. 1993

Roth, M. , "Mesopotamian Legal Traditions and the Laws of Hammurabi", Chicago-Kent Law Review 71 (1995) 13

Sarna, N.M. , "The Laws", in Understanding Exodus: The Heritage of Biblical Israel. 1969

Schreiber, A. M., ed., Jewish Law and Decision-Making: A Study Through Time. 1979

Shupak, N., "A New Source for the Study of the Judiciary and Law of Ancient Egypt: 'The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant'", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 51 (1992) 1

Silving, H. , "The Jurisprudence of the Old Testament", New York University Law Review 28 (1953) 1129

Speiser, E.A. , "Cuneiform Law and the History of Civilization", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 107 (1963) 536

Speiser, E.A. , "I Know Not the Day of My Death", Journal of Biblical Literature 74 (1955) 252

Speiser, E.A. , "Of Shoes and Shekels", Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research 77 (1940) 15

Speiser, E.A., "Early Law and Civilization", in Collected Writings. 1971

Steele, F. R., "The Code of Lipit-Ishtar", American Journal of Archaeology 50 (Supplement ) (1948) 425

Szubin H.A. and Bezalel Porten, "Royal Grants in Egypt: A New Interpretation of Driver 2", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 46 (1994) 15

Teubel, S. J. , "Women, the Law and the Ancient Near East", in Fields of Offerings: Studies in Honor of Raphael Patai. 1983

Theodorides, A., "The Concept of Law in Ancient Egypt", in John Richard Harris, ed., 2nd ed., The Legacy of Egypt. 1971

Thompson, S.E. , "The Anointing of Officials in Ancient Egypt", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 53 (1994) 15

Veenhof, K. R. , " In Accordance with the Words of the Stele': Evidence for Old Assyrian Legislation", Chicago-Kent Law Review 70 (1995) 1717

Ventura, R., "More Chronological Evidence from the Turin Papyrus", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 42 (1983) 271

Vleeming, S.P. , "The Days on Which the Knbt Used to Gather", in R.J. Demaree and J.J. Janssen eds., Gleanings from Deir el-Medina. 1982

Walzer, M. , "The Legal Codes of Ancient Israel", Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities 4 (1992) 335

Weinfeld, M. , "The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and the Ancient Near East", in Essential Papers on Israel and the Ancient Near East. 1991

Westbrook, R. , "What is the Covenant Code?", in Bernard M. Levinson ed., Theory and Method in Biblical and Cuneiform Law. 1994

Westbrook, R., "Biblical and Cuneiform Law Codes", reprinted in Alison Dundes Renteln and Alan Dundes, eds., Folk Law. 1994

Westbrook, R., "Old Babylonian Marriage Law", Orientalia 60 (1991) 3

Westbrook, R., "Slave and Master in Ancient Near Eastern Law", Chicago-Kent Law Review 70 (1995) 1631

Whitley, C.F. , "Covenant and Commandment in Israel", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 22 (1963) 37

Wilson, J. A., "Authority and Law in Ancient Egypt", Journal of the American Oriental Society (1959)

Wilson, J. A., "The Oath in Ancient Egypt", Journal of Near Eastern Studies 7 (1948) 129

Wilson, R.R. , "The Role of Law in Early Israelite Society", in Baruch and Halpern, eds., Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World. 1993

Wiseman, D.J. "The Laws of Hammurabi, Again", Journal of Semetic Studies 7 (1962) 161

Wright, D. P. , "The Gesture of Hand Placement in the Hebrew Bible and in Hittite Literature", Journal of the American Oriental Society 106 (1986) 433

Yaron, R. , "The Goring Ox in Near Eastern Laws", in Haim Cohen, ed., Jewish Law in Ancient and Modern Israel. 1971

Yaron, R. , The Laws of Eshnunna.1969

Yoffee, N., "Aspects of Mesopotamian Land Sales", American Anthropologist 90 (1988) 119

Yoffee, N.,, "Context and Authority in Early Mesopotamian Law", in State Formation and Political Legitimacy (19??)

Zaccagnini, C., "Sacred and Human Components in Ancient Near Eastern Law", History of Religions 33 (1994) 265

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C. Greek Law

See also Professor Hibbitts: Greek Law.

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1. Edited Collections, Handbooks

Fornara, C. W. ed., Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War. 2nd ed., 1983.

Freeman, K., The Murder of Herodes and Other Trials from the Athenian Law Courts. 1963, reprint 1994.

Meiggs, R. and D. Lewis, A Selection of Greek Historical Inscriptions to the End of the 5th Century BC. 1969

2. Studies

Bonner, R.J., Lawyers and Litigants in Ancient Athens: The Genesis of the Legal Profession

Bonner, R.J., The Administration of Justice from Homer to Aristotle. 1938

Botsford, G.W. and E.G. Sihler, eds., "Private and Criminal Law", in Hellenic Civilization. 1965

Calhoun, G. M., The Growth of Criminal Law in Ancient Greece. 1927

Cartledge, P. et al. eds., Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society. 1990

Chroust, A.-H., "Estate Planning in Hellenic Antiquity: Aristotle's Last Will and Testament", Notre Dame Lawyer 45 (1970) 629

Cohen, D., "Law, Society and Homosexuality in Classical Athens", Past & Present 117 (1987) 3

Cohen, D., Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens. 1995

Cohen, D., Theft in Athenian Law. 1983

Davies, J. K., "Deconstructing Gortyn: When is a Code a Code?", in L. Foxhall and A.D. E. Lewis eds., Greek Law in its Political Setting. 1996

Duxbury, N., "Foundations of Legal Tradition: The Case of Ancient Greece", Legal Studies 9 (1989) 241

Finlay, M. I., Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens, 500-200 B.C.: The Horos Inscriptions (1985)

Foxhall L., "The Law and the Lady: Women and Legal Proceedings in Classical Athens", in L. Foxhall and A.D. E. Lewis eds., Greek Law in its Political Setting. 1996

Foxhall L., and A.D. E. Lewis eds., Greek Law in its Political Setting. 1996

Freeman, K., The Murder of Herodes, and Other Trials from the Athenian Law Courts. 1946

Gagarin, M., Drakon and Early Athenian Homicide Law. 1981

Gagarin, M., Early Greek Law. 1986

Gernet, L., "Law and Prelaw in Ancient Greece", in The Anthropology of Ancient Greece. 1981

Hall, M. D., "Even Dogs Have Erinyes: Sanctions in Athenian Practice and Thinking", in L. Foxhall and A.D. E. Lewis eds., Greek Law in its Political Setting. 1996

Harris, E. M., "Law and Oratory", in Ian Worthington, ed., Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action. 1993

Havelock, E.A., The Greek Concept of Justice. 1978

Humphreys, S.C., "Social Relations on Stage: Witnesses in Classical Athens", History and Anthropology 1 (1985) 313

Humphreys, S.C., "The Evolution of Legal Process in Ancient Attica", in E. Gabba, ed., Tria Corda: Scritti in onore di Arnaldo Momigliano. 1983

Humphreys, S.C., "The Discourse of Law in Archaic and Classical Greece", Law & History Review 6 (1988) 465

Hunter, V.J., Policing Athens: Social Control in the Attic Lawsuits, 420-320 BC. 1994

Jones, J. W., The Law and Legal Theory of the Greeks. 1956

Just, R., Women in Athenian Law and Life. 1989

King, H.T. and M. A. LeForestier, "Arbitration in Ancient Greece", Dispute Resolution Journal 49 (1994) 38

Kunkel, W., "Legal Thought in Greece and Rome", Juridical Review 65 (1953) 1

Lentz, T., "A Question of Credibility: Spoken versus Written Inartistic Proof in Athenian Court", in Orality and Literacy in Hellenic Greece. 1989

Lloyd-Jones, H., The Justice of Zeus.1971

MacDowell, D. M., Athenian Homicide Law in the Age of the Orators. 1963

MacDowell, D. M., Spartan Law. 1986

MacDowell, D. M., The Law in Classical Athens. 1978

Maio, D. P., "Politeia and Adjudication in Fourth-Century B.C. Athens", American Journal of Jurisprudence 28 (1983) 16

Mirhady, D. C., "The Oath-Challenge in Athens", Classical Quarterly 41 (1991) 78

Ogden, D., Greek Bastardy in the Classical and Hellenic Periods. 1996

Ostwald, M., From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens. 1986

Patterson, C.B., "Marriage and the Married Woman in Athenian Law", in Sarah B. Pomeroy, ed., Women's History and Ancient History. 1991

Rhodes, P.J., "The Athenian Code of Laws, 410-399 BC", Journal of Hellenic Studies 111 (1991) 87

Robb, K., Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece. 1994. Chs. 3, 4 and 5

Robb, K., "The Witness in Heraclitus and Early Greek Law", The Monist 74 (1991) 638

Sealey, R., The Athenian Republic: Democracy or Rule of Law? 1987

Sealey, R., Women and Law in Classical Greece. 1990

Sealy, R., The Justice of the Greeks. 1994

Stone, I.F., The Trial of Socrates. 1989

Stratton, J., "Writing and the Concept of Law in Ancient Greece", Visible Language 14 (1980) 99

Stroud, R., The Axones and Kyrbeis of Drakon and Solon . 1979

Szegedy-Maszak, A., "Legends of the Greek Lawgivers", 20 Arethusa (1987)

Thomas, R., "Written in Stone? Equality, Orality and the Codification of Law", in L. Foxhall and A.D. E. Lewis eds., Greek Law in its Political Setting. 1996

Thur, G., "Oaths and Dispute Settlement in Ancient Greek Law", in L. Foxhall and A.D. E. Lewis eds., Greek Law in its Political Setting. 1996

Todd, S. , "The Purpose of Evidence in Athenian Courts", in Paul Cartledge et al. eds., Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society. 1990

Todd, S., The Shape of Athenian Law. 1993

Wolff, H. J., "Greek Legal History: Its Functions and Potentialities", Washington University Law Quarterly ( ) 395

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D. Roman Law

See also Professor Hibbitts: Roman Law.

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1. Textbooks, Handbooks, Reference and Bibliographies

Alexander, M. C., Trials in the Late Roman Republic, 149 B.C. to 50 B.C. Toronto, 1990

Berger, A., An Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Roman Law . Philadelphia, 1953

Buckland, W.W., Roman Law of Slavery

Buckland, W.W., A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian (3rd ed., Peter Stein, ed.). 1964

Caes, L., Collectio bibliographica operum ad ius romanum pertinentium. Brussells, 1949-. (Ongoing bibliography)

Cambridge Ancient History. Vol.9. 2nd ed., 1994. Pp.849-861 (Bibliography to ca. 1985 on Roman criminal law and private law in the Republic)

Gradenwitz, O., B. Kübler et al., eds., Vocabularium Iurisprudentiae Romanae. 1894-

Heumann-E. Seckel, ed. Handlexikon zu den Quellen des römischen Rechts. 9th ed., 1907, repr. 1958

Jolowicz, H. and B. Nicholas, A Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law. 3rd ed. Cambridge, 1972

Kaser, M., Das Römische Zivilprozessrecht. Munich, 1966

Kaser, M., Roman Private Law

Kaser, M., Das Römische Privatrecht. 2nd ed., Munich, 1971-5

Kunkel, W. , An Introduction to Roman Legal and Constitutional History. 2nd ed. Oxford, 1966

Mommsen, T., Römisches Strafrecht. Berlin, 1905-7

Nicholas, B. , An Introduction to Roman Law. 1976

Rotondi, G., Leges Publicae Populi Romani. repr. Hildesheim, 1966

Schiller, A.A., Roman Law: Mechanisms of Development. The Hague, Paris, New York, 1978 (Essential. Chs. 2 and 3, cover the source materials, bibliographies and research tools in Roman law.)

Thomas, J.A.C., Textbook of Roman Law. 1976

Tellegen-Couperus, O., A Short History of Roman Law. 1993

Wenger, L., Die Quellen des Römischen Rechts. Vienna, 1953

 

2. Edited Collections and Texts

Birks, P. and G. McLoed, eds, Justinian's Institutes. 1987

Bruns, C.G., Fontes Iuris Romani Antiqui.7 ed. O. Gradenwitz, 1909, repr. 1956

Crawford, M.H. , ed. Roman Stautes. London, 1996. 2 vols (New edition of statutes previously edited in Bruns and Riccobono etc.)

Giuffré, V., ed., Les lois des romaines. Naples, 1977. (7th ed. of Textes de Droit Romain, P. Girard and F. Senn, eds. v.2)

Grenfell, B.P. , A.S. Hunt et al., The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. 1898-

Harries J., and I. Wood, eds, The Theodosian Code .1993

Johnson, A.C., P.R. Coleman-Norton, F.C. Bourne, Ancient Roman Statutes. Austin, 1961

Kolbert, C.F., trans., Justinian: The Digest of Roman Law. 1979

Lenel, O., Das Edictum Perpetuum.3 Leipzig, 1927; repr. Graz, 1960

Mommsen, T., P. Krüger, eds. Corpus Iuris Civilis

Oliver, J. H., Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri. 1989

Pharr, C., The Theodosian Code

Reinhold M., and N. Lewis, Roman Civilization. A Sourcebook. 2 Vols. 3rd ed., 1990 (Includes many legal documents)

Riccobono, S., ed., Fontes Iuris Romani Anteiustiniani. 3 Vols. 1940-69.

Watson, A., P. Krüger, T. Mommsen, eds. The Digest of Justinian . 1985

Zulueta, F. de, The Institutes of Gaius.1946

 

3. Studies

Bagnall R., and W.V. Harris, eds., Studies in Roman Law. In Memory of A. Arthur Schiller, Leiden, 1986

Barnard, L., "The Criminalisation of Heresy in the Later Roman Empire: A Sociopolitical Device?", Journal of Legal History 16 (1995) 121

Baumann, R., Lawyers in Roman Transitional Politics. A Study of the Roman Jurists in their Political Setting in the Late Republic and Triumvirate. Munich, 1985

Baumann, R., Lawyers in Roman Republican Politics: A Study of the Roman Jurists in Their Political Setting, 316-82 BC. Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschungen und Antike Rechtsgeschichte 75. Munich, 1983

Bleicken, J., Lex Publica. Gesetz und Recht in der Römischen Republik. Berlin, 1975

Bleicken, J., Senatsgericht und Kaisergericht. Göttingen, 1962

Bretone, M., Tecniche e Ideologie dei Giuristi Romani. Naples, 1971

Buckland, W.W., "Ritual Acts and Words in Roman Law", in Festschrift Paul Koschaker (1939) 16

Chroust, A.-H. , "Legal Education in Ancient Rome", Journal of Legal Education 7 (1955) 509

Cloud, D., "The Constitution and Public Criminal Law," in CAH Vol. 9. 2nd ed., 1994. Pp. 491- 530

Corbett, P. E., The Roman Law of Marriage. Oxford, 1930

Crook, J., Legal Advocacy in the Roman World. Duckworth, 1995

Crook, J., "The Development of Roman Private Law," in CAH Vol. 9. 2nd ed., 1994. Pp. 531-563

Crook, J., Law and Life of Rome. 1967

Daube, D., Roman Law. Linguistic, Social and Philosophical Aspects. Edinburgh, 1969

Daube, D., Forms of Roman Legislation. Oxford, 1956

Enos, R. L., The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric. 1988

Evans Grubbs, J., Law and Family in Late Antiquity. Oxford, 1995

Ferguson, M. Carr, "A Day in Court in Justinian's Rome: Some Problems of Evidence, Proof and Justice in Roman Law", Iowa Law Review 46 (1961) 732

Frier, B., Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome. Princeton, 1980

Frier, B., The Rise of the Roman Jurists. Studies in Cicero's pro Caecina . Princeton, N.J., 1985

Gardner, J. , Women in Roman Law and Society. 1985

Gardner, J., Being a Roman Citizen. 1993

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