Product Description: English summary: The present study fills an important gap in our understanding of law in ancient Rome, exploring how the Romans thought their law and the place that the law occupied in the writings of Roman authors. French description: Ce livre est né d'un étonnement: la législation, les différentes lois, le concept de lex ont fait l'objet d'études importantes, surtout ces dernières années, mais les problèmes que pose la notion de la loi, la réflexion qu'elle fait naître, la conception de la loi à Rome n'ont pas suscité le même intérêt...read more

Product Description: The extent of Roman influence on English common law, long a keenly debated topic, was subjected to careful scrutiny during the establishment of modern English legal historiography in the late 1800s. Scrutton's revisionist essay, a path-breaking work that won Cambridge University's prestigious Yorke Prize, evaluates and mostly discredits the work of his predecessors, most notably Finlason, Coote and Seebohm...read more

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