An Introduction to Roman Law

By Barry Nicholas

Book Overview

This book sketches the history of Roman Private Law from the Twelve Tables to modern times, and sets out the elements of the system. It does not attempt to summarize the whole law, but explains and evaluates its most characteristic and influential features.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198760639
• ISBN13: 9780198760634
• Release Date: February 1976
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A great introduction to Roman law

A read this book as a student, and I found it an easy guide to the world of Roman law. Though today's legal systems share a common heritage from Roman law, the latter is still an alien system for lawyers today. It is thus not an easy task to present this exotic legal system and society as easy as Nicholas does in this book.

Nicholas - Roman Law

When I was a student at Oxford I specialised in Roman law. The tutorial system was very good at providing education in detail but bad at giving the wider picture. I survived on Nicholas to keep my sanity. Other writers deal with the subject in greater depth (von Lubtow, Daube, Jolovicz, Schulz etc) but he does a unique job, so far as I am aware, in producing a comprehensible overall map. I reccomend it highly to anyone interested in Roman law.