Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History

John W. Cairns is Professor of Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. Olivia Robinson teaches at Glasgow University.

Roman law: was acceptilatio an informal act in classical Roman law?, Hans Ankum; solutio and traditio, J. L. Barton; actor and defendant in negatoria servitutis, L. Capogross Colognesi; some reflections on history and dogma as jurists' tools, Guiliano Crifo; D.33.1.20.1 (scaevola 18 dig.) revisited, Robert Feenstra; death, taxes and status in Pliny's "Panegyricus", Jane F. Gardner; translation and interpretation, William M. Gordon; the case of the deliberate wine spill, Herbert Hausmaninger; de jurisprudentia, Neil MacCormick; pigs, boars and livestock under the lex aquilia, Grant McLeod; "galba negabat", A.D. Manfredini; partes iuris, Theo Mayer-Maly; unus testis nullus testis, Antonino Metro; unpardonable crimes - fourth century attitudes, O.F. Robinson; the praetor hoist with his own petard - the palingenesia of Digest 2.1.10, Alan Rodger; maiestas in the late republic - some observations, Robin Seager. Other ancient laws: oral establishment of dowry in Jewish and Roman law - d'varim haniknim ba'amira and dotis dictio, Ranon Katzoff; cause, status and fault in the traditional Chinese law of homicide, Geoffrey MacCormack; the septuagint as nomos - how the Torah became a "civic law" for the Jews of Egypt, Joseph Meleze Modrzejewski; basics of Roman and Jewish intestacy, Reuven Yaron. Transplants, receptions and comparisons: the education and qualification of civil lawyers in historical perspective - from jurists and orators to advocates, procurators and notaries, Hans W. Baade; the moveable text of MacKenzie - bibliographical problems for the Scottish concept of institutional writing, John W. Cairns; restitution, repetition, recompense and unjustified enrichment in Scots law, Robin Evans-Jones; John Adams and the whale, Andrew Lewis; Leibniz's "Elementa Iuris Civilis" and the private law of his time, Klaus Luig; classifying crimes, R.A.A. McCall Smith; the shifting focus of adoption, Joseph W. McKnight; girth - society and the law of sanctuary in Scotland, Hector L. MacQueen; descendit ad inferos - and Belial sued Jesus Christ for trespass, Eltjo Schrage; saving souls through adoption - legal adaptation in the Dutch East Indies, A. J.B. Sirks; legal chance and Scots private law, Joe Thomson; quod raro fit, non observant legislatores - a classical maxim of legislation, Andreas Wacke; Kasper Manz, a German jurist in the seventeenth century - a man of theory and practice, Gunter Wesener; a note on regulae luris in Roman law and on Dworkin's distinction between rules and principles, Laurens Winkel.