William Warwick Buckland

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William Warwick Buckland, M.A., LL.D. (1859 - 1946) was a Roman Law scholar, Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Cambridge (1914-1945), Fellow of the British Academy (1920). He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh (1922),[1] Harvard (1929),[2] Lyon, Louvain and Paris. Among his most famous works on Roman Law is A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian, the most important and valuable treatise on the subject yet published in Britain, and a standard text ever since.[3]


[edit] Works

The Roman Law of Slavery: The Conditions of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian (Cambridge: University Press, 1908)

Equity in Roman Law: Lectures Delivered in the University of London, at the Request of the Faculty of Laws (London: University of London Press, 1911)

Elementary Principles of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1912)

A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian (Cambridge: University Press, 1921)

A Manual of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1925)

The Main Institutions of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1931)

Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline (Cambridge: University Press, 1936) (with the collaboration of Arnold D. McNair)[4]

Studies in the Glossators of the Roman Law: Newly Discovered Writings of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge: University Press, 1938) (edited and explained by Hermann F. Kantorowicz with the collaboration of W.W. Buckland)

Some Reflections on Jurisprudence (Cambridge: University Press, 1945)


[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Cf. The University of Edinburgh, Registry, Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh: 1900-1949
  2. ^ Cf. Harvard University Gazette, This month in Harvard history (Sept. 25, 1929)
  3. ^ Cf. David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 156.
  4. ^ Buckland, W.W., McNair, A.D., Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline, 2d ed., revised by Lawson, F.H., Cambridge: University Press, 1965 (portions)


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