Roman Law
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Williamson, Callie. The Laws of the Roman People: Public Law in the Expansion and Decline of the Roman Republic. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. xxviii + 508. Paper, $44.95. ISBN 978-0-472-03661-5. Reviewed by Molly Jones-Lewis, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County When writing an academic book, the hope is that the finished work will be, above all, useful. In that, Callie…
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From a Universitat Jaume I press release: Some women in ancient Rome already implemented the concept of microcredit as a loan of small amounts of money that enables people without resources to develop work projects on their own. The study conducted by the professor of Roman Law at the Universitat Jaume I Carmen Lázaro shows…
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For someone whose MA and never-completed PhD was dependent on this sort of thing, this is pretty big news from Science Daily: Part of an ancient Roman law code previously thought to have been lost forever has been discovered by researchers at University College London’s Department of History. Simon Corcoran and Benet Salway made the…