Synopsis
Analysis Of M. Ortolan's Institutes Of Justinian: Including The History And Generalization Of Roman Law by Thomas Lambert Mears. A scholarly three-part history of Roman law organized around three eras—the kings, the republic, and the emperors—tracing the evolution of public, sacred, and private law from early custom to codified rules and showing how political change shaped legal practice. The English edition condenses Ortolan's French text for students, presenting Rome's constitutional and legal institutions: the patricians and plebeians, the comitia, the Senate, priestly colleges, and the king's judicial and religious roles; and noting reforms that redefined political power and laid groundwork for civil law. It then surveys the Republic's development of private and public law, the rise of the praetorship, the formularian system, and the expansion of citizenship to Italy and the provinces, with jurists such as Gaius, Papinian, and Ulpian shaping jurisprudence. In the imperial era, Augustus's centralization, imperial constitutions and rescripts, the Christian influence, and the codifications (Gregorian, Hermogenian, Theodosian) culminate in Justinian's Institutes and Digest, closing with the late antique order leading to medieval jurisprudence.
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