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Pro Calatoria Themide. Iusta Case and the Living Conditions of Freed Slaves. The Iusta Case has always been understood as a dispute in which Iusta was claiming her freeborn status (ingenua). Under this conception, however, some unsolved mysteries remain. The author tries to reconstruct the case from the perspective that Iusta was claiming to be a beneficiary of the fideicommissio of Stephanus as one of his freed slaves, by drawing a parallel with D. 34,16,1. Based on this understanding, the documents found in Casa del Bicentenario are, in accordance with Themis' defence strategy, all in support of Stephanus' widow who refused to pay the maintenance of the young Iusta for the rest of her life.

Observing current social issues in Japan from the perspective of Roman law: part 3
Professor Mariko Igimi, Kyushu University, writes her third part argument on why we still have much to learn from Antiquity and Roman Law in relation to the current issues of an aging society in Japan. Professor Mariko argues that for former slaves who have always acted under order and supervision of their owners until they were freed, it might be difficult to start their lives independently. However, it was a very common practice that slaves owned slaves, hence there was a special word for a slave's slave, i.e., vicarius. For such slaves, it would not be an issue to run businesses on their own and earn their living independently after the manumission. While there is diversity in treatments of freed slaves, most attached to patronus would be the libertus in case who acts as a place of deposit of the former owner, where the freed slave was fully integrated into the business of the former owner. In some cases, freed slaves were independently running a business in which deposit was involved. From the wide range of relationships between former owners and freed slaves, we might be able to observe how the Romans delicately balanced the protection and the independence based on the personal bonds, competence and experiences of individual freed slaves etc. Looking at the ageing population of Japan, she argues that humans are not "equal" in their competence and weakness, hardship, social and family relationships etc., which is causing some of the major issues we are facing today, particularly in an aging society like Japan.

Im März 2013 fand in Fukuoka, Japan, ein internationales Kolloquium »Interpretation und Umfeld historischer Quellen des römischen Rechts« statt, an dem Wissenschaftler aus Ostasien und Mitteleuropa teilnahmen. Die in diesem Buch publizierten Vorträge (in deutscher oder englischer Sprache) beleuchten die Quellen unter rechtshistorischen und rechtsdogmatischen, aber auch unter archäologischen und kulturgeschichtlichen Gesichtspunkten; sie schlagen Brücken zwischen den europäischen und den ostasiatischen Ländern, deren Mutterrecht das römische Recht ist, und zugleich zwischen dem Altertum und den gegenwärtigen Zivilrechtsordnungen. Die Autoren hoffen, mit diesem Band einen Beitrag zur Erkenntnis der Bedeutung der Wissenschaft vom römischen Recht als Grundlage jeder Rechtswissenschaft in Ost und West geleistet zu haben