Roman Legal Science. Between the Creation and Interpretation of the Law

160pp, Jovene, 2023. Brossura. NUOVO -- TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . PREFACE by Paul du Plessis . PERIODISATIONS AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION . AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF ROMAN LAW CHAPTER 1 ARCHAIC ROMAN LAW FROM THE PONTIFICES TO THE SECULARISATION OF JURISPRUDENCE 1. From a primitive community to the first modern community 2. The political revolution of the Twelve Tables . 3. The secularisation of jurisprudence 4. Reflections on the role of jurisprudence in the archaic period . » 22 CHAPTER 2 THE ROLE OF THE NEW IUS CIVILE IN THE CREATION OF REPUBLICAN LAW 1. The evolution of Roman society and the legal order in the Republic 2. The influence of Hellenistic culture 3. The sources of law . 4. Top.5.28: Cicero’s partitio of ius civile. A new look at the law 5. Aequitas 6. Ius civile, ius honorarium, ius gentium VIII TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 3 THE SECULAR JURISTS: THE CREATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE IUS CIVILE 1. Secular jurisprudence 2. Quintus Mucius Scaevola vs. Servius Sulpicius Rufus: the Mucian method . 3. Servius Sulpicius Rufus vs. Quintus Mucius Scaevola: the Servian responsum 4. The causa Curiana: a significant example of the vitality of the ius civile CHAPTER 4 THE SOURCES OF LAW IN THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 1. A new political-legal order 2. The new sources of law 3. Innovations in jurisprudence’s activity 4. Classical jurisprudence: Sabinian and Proculian schools 5. The birth of scientific, legal literature 6. The casuistic method CHAPTER 5 LAW AND LEGAL PROCESS 1. The meaning of iurisdictio and the original concept of legal procedure 2. The process per concepta verba: the formulary system 3. Examples of actions 4. The circular relation between ius and actio CHAPTER 6 THE CASE LAW METHOD 1. The case law method 2. Ius controversum and legal Science 3. Regula iuris 4. Anglo-American case law. Comparing experiences 5. Case law, Common Law and Civil Law TABLE OF CONTENTS IX CHAPTER 7 IURA AND LEGES THE POST-CLASSICAL PERIOD IN THE LAW 1. A new dimension of the law 2. The problem of the sources of law 3. Solutions about leges 4. Regulation of the use of jurisprudential opinions CHAPTER 8 JUSTINIAN AND THE COMPILATION 1. Justinan’s Empire, a new legal order 2. Codices, Digesta, Institutiones 3. The history of Justinian’s compilation 4. The Digest as a complex lens through which to view classical Roman Law.…