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Reading
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Other References
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1.Mon. August 28, Wed. 30 Aug.
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Review of syllabus, procedures, assignments and
evalution. World legal systems &
Roman Civil Law. Overview of Roman
historical periods: Regnum, Republic, Principate,
Dominate.
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Riggsby: Introduction & Chapter 2; S. Riccobono,
“Outlines of the Evolution of Roman Law”
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Du Plessis:
Chapter 1,
Riggsby:
Chapters 3-5
Justinian,
General Introduction.
Rèsumé 1
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Di Pietro et
al. Spezzatura,
“The Roman Roman Legacy of Law”
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2. Mon. Sept 4, Wed. Sept. 6
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Review of Riggsby and Riccobono.
Roman Law vocabulary, Ius & Lex
Review of Justinian & Du Plessis
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Du Plessis, Chapter 1:
“Sources & Methods”
Riggsby, Chapters 3,4
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Résumé 2
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3. Mon. Sept. 11,
Wed. Sept. 13
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Review of Du Plessis & Riggsby
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Cicero, De Legibus/On the Laws (selections)
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Résumé 3
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4. Mon. Sept 18,-Wed. Sept. 20
Frid. Sept. 22 (Make up day)
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Review of Cicero, De Legibus; Pontifices Maximi and Augurs. Origins of the law in
Roman religion.
Roman Law in context:
the monarchy and early Republic – social and
constitutional background. Case study
no. 1: “Black Magic, F. Cresimus
Defends Himself”
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Riggsby:
Chapters 5 -8
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Résumé 4
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Riggsby, Chap. 9
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5. Mon. Sept. 25, Wed. Sept. 27
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Review of Riggsby
Sources of Roman Law: Statutes, Edicts of the
Magistrates, Juristic Interpretations
Case study no. 2 “Killing a Sister”
Xii Tables; the Law of the Praetor
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Nichols & Metzger,
Chap. VII, “Is Naturalis, Ius Civilis, Ius Gentium” p.
54, sec. 1,2, pp 64-76;
Riggsby: Chapter 10
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Midterm Topics, Criteria and Guidelines. Suggested topics.
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6. Mon. Oct. 2, -Wed. Oct. 4
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Review of Nichols & Metzger; Riggsby
Gaius, The Institutes, Four Commentaries
Status: Free,
Slave, Citizen, Peregrinus,
women, children
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Résumé 5
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Claudius, The
Lyon Tablet
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7. Mon. October, 9, Wed. ,October 11
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The Law of Persons:
status of citizens (Latin citizens), non-citizens, peregrini
The Roman family, slaves.
Case study no. 3:
Tacitus murder case (Bk 5
Annales)
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Riggsby: Chapter
17,
Du Plessis, Chapter 2
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“Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage”
--Cicero
“To some extent I liken slavery to death”--Cicero
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8. Mon. Oct. 16 – Wed. Oct. 18
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Marriage, Guardianship, Capitiis dominutio
Status of women – inscriptions
Status of slaves – inscriptions
Case study no. 4 “A Dowery Hunter Loses Out”
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Riggsby: Chapter
12 – 16
Du Plessis, Chapter 3
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Résumé 6
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9. Mon. October 23, – Wed. Oct. 25, Friday, Oct. 27 (make-up day)
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Review of Riggsby & Du Plessis
Contracts: Form
and Formula, historical development, informal contracts, discharge of
obligations, privity of contract, surety.
Property and Obligations. Possession.
Modes of acquisition of material things.
Derivative modes and conveyances
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Midterm papers due with
oral presentations
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10. Oct. 30 Wed. Nov. 1 (Holiday)
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Civil modes, prescriptions, original natural modes,
servitudes, other iure in re aliena ownership
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Du Plessis, Chap 4
Riggsby, Chapter 18,19
Justinian, “The Roman Law of Delicts” pp. 64 - 68
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Résumé 7
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11, Mon. Nov. 6, – Wed. Nov. 8
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Review of Du Plessis & Riggsby.
Delicts
Case Study no. 5
Pliny to the Emperor Trajan.
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Justinian, “Concerning the Lex Aqulia” pp. 71 – 102, Riggsby, Chapter 19
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Final Paper assignment:
Criteria & Guidelines,
Suggested topics.
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Bruce A. Frier, A
Casebook of the Roman Law of Delict.
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12. Mon. Nov. 13, Wed. Nov.15
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Delicts
& quasi delict: Furtum, inuria, damnum iniuria datum. Noxal liability.
Review of Ruiggsby
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Justinian,
Concerning Theft, Robbery with Violence and Riotous Assembly,
Insulting Behavior and Scandalous libel, pp 103 - 158
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Résumé 8
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13. Mon. Nov. 20,
Wed. Nov. 22
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Case Study no. 6:
Cicero thwarts the Intrigue of a powerful man.
The Roman Jurists, Ulpian
Equity
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Rather leave the crime of the guilty unpunished than
condemn the innocent”—Cicero
“Laws should be interpreted
In a liberal sense so that their intention may be
preserved.”—Cicero
“Maxima Lex…Pessima Lex” –
Ulpian
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12. Mon. Nov. 27,– Wed. Nov. 29 (Last class)
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Public Law: Law
Bestowing Power on
the Principate (Vespasian).
The Constituto
Antoniana.
The heritage of Roman Civil Law
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“Corruptissima
Republica….
Plurimae Leges--Tacitus
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Final Exam
Session: TBA
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Oral Presentation of Final
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Papers.
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Quid faciant leges,ubi sola percunia regnat?
Aut ubi paupertas vincere nulla potest?
Ipsi qu Cynica traducunt tempora pera, non
numquam nummis vendere vera solet. Ergo, iudicum nihil est nisi
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Publica merces, atque eques in causa sedet,
empta probat…..
Petronius
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