How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For Professor Anna di Robilant, it’s been a daily pastime over the past eight years. Her new book, The Making of Modern Property: Reinventing Roman Law ...

The Roman Empire once stretched across much of Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, leaving behind enough history that we're still talking about it thousands of years later. In fact, "my Roman ...

Roman law outlived the empire and became the foundation for legal systems across Europe and much of the modern world. Its influence reached places as different as Scotland and Sri Lanka through ...

The origins of Europe’s first university can be traced to the late eleventh century, when the teaching of Roman law began at Bologna. The university that formed there was the site of a birth in Roman ...

The Spirit of Roman Law is not about the rules or concepts of Roman law, according to Alan Watson, Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair at UGA’s School of Law, but about the ...

Part of an ancient Roman law code previously thought to have been lost forever has been discovered. The breakthrough was made after piecing together 17 fragments of previously incomprehensible ...

A Roman law expert at the University of Cincinnati edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years ...