Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans

Further Reading

General introduction to Roman law from a modern lawyer’s point of view. Nippel , Wilfried (1995). Public Order in Ancient Rome. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Policing and other means to maintain public order. Riggsby , Andrew M. (1999). Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press. The procedures and offenses covered by the criminal courts of the late Republic. Robinson , O. F. (1997). The Sources of Roman Law: Problems and Methods for Ancient Historians. London and New York: Routledge. Detailed but readable account of both the sources for and sources of Roman law treated in Chapters 4 and 5 of this book. Saller , Richard P. (1994). Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Sets out the legal rules for paternal authority in cultural and demo graphic context. Tellegen-Couperus , O. E. (1993). A Short History of Roman Law. London and New York: Routledge. A history not so much of the law as of legal (and related political) institutions. Watson , Alan (1995). The Spirit of Roman Law. Athens: University of Georgia Press. Watson has written an enormous quantity of very technical works on all areas of the law, but this is a very basic account of his theo ries on the general production and interpretation of the law.

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