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The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous potential to illuminate the origins of Roman legal institutions in response to changes in the economic activities that they regulated. These two volumes combine approaches from legal history and economic history with methods borrowed from economics to offer a new interdisciplinary approach.

The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous potential to illuminate the origins of Roman legal institutions in response to changes in the economic activities that they regulated. These two volumes combine approaches from legal history and economic history with methods borrowed from economics to offer a new interdisciplinary approach.

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics are able to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1000 years, in response to changes in the underlying economic activities that those institutions regulated. Volume I explores these legal institutions and organizations in detail, from the constitution of the Roman Republic to the management of business in the Empire, while Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among others. Throughout each volume, contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due deference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1246/thumbnail.jpg

Ancient Rome is the only society in the history of the western world whose legal profession evolved autonomously, distinct and separate from institutions of political and religious power. Roman legal thought has left behind an enduring legacy and exerted enormous influence on the shaping of modern legal frameworks and systems, but its own genesis and context pose their own explanatory problems. The economic analysis of Roman law has enormous untapped potential in this regard: by exploring the intersecting perspectives of legal history, economic history, and the economic analysis of law, the two volumes of Roman Law and Economics are able to offer a uniquely interdisciplinary examination of the origins of Roman legal institutions, their functions, and their evolution over a period of more than 1000 years, in response to changes in the underlying economic activities that those institutions regulated. Volume II covers the concepts of exchange, ownership, and disputes, analysing the detailed workings of credit, property, and slavery, among others, while Volume I explores Roman legal institutions and organizations in detail, from the constitution of the Republic to the management of business in the Empire. Throughout each volume, contributions from specialists in legal and economic history, law, and legal theory are underpinned by rigorous analysis drawing on modern empirical and theoretical techniques and methodologies borrowed from economics. In demonstrating how these can be fruitfully applied to the study of ancient societies, with due deference to the historical context, Roman Law and Economics opens up a host of new avenues of research for scholars and students in each of these fields and in the social sciences more broadly, offering new ways in which different modes of enquiry can connect with and inform each other. ; https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/1247/thumbnail.jpg

Introduction : ancient law and ancient society / Dennis P. Kehoe and Thomas J.J. McGinn -- Collective sanctions in classical Athens / Adriaan Lanni -- An economic perspective on marriage alliances in Ancient Greece / Michael Leese -- Assumption f risk in Athenian law / David D. Phillips -- Rivers, rights, and "Romanization" / Cythia J. Bannon -- Justice in Aelian's miscellaneous history / Lauren Caldwell -- Agency, Roman law, and Roman social values / Dennis P. Kehoe -- Cui Bono? The true beneficiaries of Roman private law / Thomas A. J. McGinn -- Libertas and "mixed marriages" in late antiquity : Law, Labor, and Politics in Justinianic reform legislationm / Charles Pazdermik -- Afterword / Clifford Ando

Introduction : transaction costs, ancient history, and the law / David Ratzan, Dennis Kehoe, and Uri Yiftach -- Transaction costs in Athenian law / Gerhard Thür -- Access, fairness, and transaction costs: Nikophon's law on silver coinage (Athens, 375-4 B.C.E.) / Josiah Ober -- Transaction costs and institutional change in Egypt, ca. 1070-525 B.C.E. / Brian Muhs -- Ptolemaic governance and transaction costs / J. G. Manning -- The cost of getting money in early Ptolemaic Egypt : the case of P.Cair.Zen. 1 59021 (258 B.C.E.) / Alain Bresson -- The Grammatikon : some considerations on the feeing policies of legal documents in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods / Uri Yiftach -- The Vivliothēkē enktēseōn and transaction costs in the credit market of Roman Egypt (30 B.C.E.- ca. 170 C.E.) / F. Lerouxel -- Transaction costs and contract in Roman Egypt : a case study in negotiating the right of repossession / David Ratzan -- Contracts, agency, and transaction costs in the Roman economy / Dennis Kehoe -- From free to fee? Judicial fees and other litigation costs during the high empire and late antiquity / R. Haensch -- The economic perspective : demand and supply in the reduction of transaction costs in the ancient world / Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

Index titulorum codicis iustiniani -- List of titles in the Ccodex of Jjustinian -- Justice Fred H. Blume and the translation of Justinian's Codex / Timothy Kearley -- Revising Justice Blume's translation of Justinian's Codex / Bruce W. Frier -- Note on the dating of constitutions / Noel Lenski -- The Codex of Justinian : the life of a text through 1500 years / Simon Corcoran -- The introductory constitutions / edited by John Noel Dillon and Bruce W. Frier -- First book / edited by John Noel Dillon -- Second book / edited by Bruce W. Frier -- Third book / edited by Serena Connolly -- Fourth book / edited by Dennis P. Kehoe -- Fifth book / edited by Thomas A. J. McGinn -- Sixth book / edited by Simon Corcoran, Michael Crawford, and Benet Salway; and by Bruce W. Frier, Dennis P. Kehoe, and Thomas A.J. McGinn -- Seventh book / edited by Noel Lenski -- Eighth book / edited by Bruce W. Frier -- Ninth book / edited by Thomas A. J. McGinn -- Tenth book / edited by Dennis P. Kehoe -- Eleventh book / edited by Dennis P. Kehoe -- Twelfth book / edited by Charles F. Pazdernik -- Glossary of Roman law terms -- Chronological list of the constitutions in Justinian's Codex.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Perspectives on Roman Legal Thought -- 2. Why Read the Jurists? Aulus Gellius on Reading Across Disciplines -- 3. Artes Urbanae: Roman Law and Rhetoric -- 4. The Senatus Consultum Silanianum: Court Decisions and Judicial Severity in the Early Roman Empire -- Part II Interactions between Legal Theory and Legal Practice -- 5. Law's Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice -- 6. The Concept of Conubium in the Roman Republic -- 7. Financial Transactions by Women in Puteoli -- 8. Tapia's Banquet Hall and Eulogios' Cell: Transfer of Ownership as a Security in Some Late Byzantine Papyri -- Part III Economic Realities and Law -- 9. Law, Agency and Growth in the Roman Economy -- 10. Dumtaxat de peculio: What's in a Peculium, or Establishing the Extent of the Principal's Liability -- 11. Pipes and Property in the Sale of Real Estate (D.19.1.38.2) -- Part IV Concluding Thoughts -- 12. The Standpoint Determines the View: Jacques Barzun's Theory of Aspect -- Index