Beyond Dogmatics by John W Cairns

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Summary

Looks at specific areas – such as law and empire, codes and codification, death and economics, commerce and procedure – to contribute to the larger debate about Roman private law in Roman society.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free US shipping over $15
  • Buying preloved emits 41% less CO2 than new
  • Millions of affordable books
  • Give your books a new home - sell them back to us!

Beyond Dogmatics by John W Cairns

This book provides a survey of the debate about the relationship between law and society in the Roman world.
John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9780748627936
ISBN 10 0748627936
Title Beyond Dogmatics
Author John W Cairns
Series Edinburgh Studies In Law
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Year published 2007-05-25
Number of pages 208
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.