--- title: Roman Law description: Roman law covers the legal systems, statutes, and jurisprudence of ancient Rome from the Twelve Tables to Justinian's code. Learners will understand how Roman legal principles developed and how they continue to influence modern civil law systems globally. category: humanities subcategory: classics difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/roman-law --- # Roman Law Roman law covers the legal systems, statutes, and jurisprudence of ancient Rome from the Twelve Tables to Justinian's code. Learners will understand how Roman legal principles developed and how they continue to influence modern civil law systems globally. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 2 Courses • 2 Websites ## Websites ### 1. Droit Romain Bilingual French-English library of Roman legal sources maintained by historians Yves Lassard and Alexandr Koptev: the Twelve Tables, Gaius's Institutes, Justinian's Digest, Code, Institutes and Novels, and the Theodosian Code. Lets a learner read and search the primary texts directly. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://droitromain.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/ **Tags:** corpus-iuris-civilis, digest, primary-sources, justinian, latin-legal-texts ### 2. Perseus Digital Library Tufts University's Perseus Digital Library, a long-running collection of Greek and Latin texts with translations, plus catalogued images of ancient art, coins, sculpture, and archaeological sites. Learners can study classical artworks alongside the primary sources describing them. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/ **Tags:** classical-art, ancient-greece, ancient-rome, archaeology, primary-sources ## Podcasts ### 1. Lit Century **Author:** Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols Host Catherine Nichols and guests choose one book for each year of the twentieth century (Nella Larsen's Passing, 1936, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, 1966; Mohandas Gandhi's Indian Home Rule, 1909) and talk about it in its historical and literary context. Tune in to find out what the 20th century was all about. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.lithub.com **Tags:** 20th-century-literature, book-discussion, literary-history, author-interviews ### 2. Poetry Off the Shelf **Author:** Poetry Foundation Producer Helena de Groot talks to poets about language, dreams, love and loss, identity, connection, anger, discomfort, the creative process, the state of the world and the world of the soul. Hard conversations are welcomed—laughter is, too. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-us | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.poetryfoundation.org/ **Tags:** poetry, poet-interviews, creative-process, contemporary-poetry ## Books ### 1. Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans **Author:** Andrew M. Riggsby Cambridge introduction to Roman law written for students of Roman history rather than lawyers. Covers persons, property, obligations, procedure and crime, and shows how legal rules shaped everyday Roman social and economic life, with guidance on reading the ancient sources. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/052168711X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics ### 2. Roman Law in Context **Author:** David Johnston Short Cambridge study of how Roman law worked in practice: family and inheritance, property, contracts, commerce, and litigation, set against the evidence from papyri, inscriptions and legal texts. Readers come away understanding the gap between juristic doctrine and ordinary Romans' legal experience. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521639611?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, humanities-social-sciences, classics ## Courses ### 1. Roman Law Spanish-language course from Universidades Anáhuac in seven modules: sources and institutions, persons and family, civil procedure, property, obligations, contracts, and delicts. Gives a systematic grounding in the private-law categories that civil-law systems still inherit from Rome. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.coursera.org/learn/derecho-romano **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, classics ### 2. Roman Law and Economy Explore Roman Law, its History, its Juridical Science and Codes, and see how relevant it could be for international legal culture today! **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.edx.org/learn/history/universita-degli-studi-di-napoli-federico-ii-history-of-roman-law **Tags:** courses, humanities-social-sciences, classics --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/roman-law