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14 - Litigation
from Part IV - Private Law in Roman Society
- By Ernest Metzger
Edited by David Johnston
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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law

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05 February 2015

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16 February 2015, pp 272-298
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- By Jean-Jacques Aubert, R. H. Helmholz, Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, David Johnston, Wolfgang Kaiser, Andrew Lewis, Andrew Lintott, Laurent Mayali, Ernest Metzger, Elizabeth A. Meyer, Paul du Plessis, John Richardson, Magnus Ryan, A. J. B. Sirks, Bernard H. Stolte, Laurens Winkel, Joseph Georg Wolf, Reinhard Zimmermann
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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law

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A. M. RIGGSBY, ROMAN LAW AND THE LEGAL WORLD OF THE ROMANS. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.2010. Pp. viii + 283. isbn9780521867511 (bound); 9780521687119 (paper). £55.00/US$85.00 (bound); £16.99/US$27.99 (paper).
Ernest Metzger
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The Journal of Roman Studies / Volume 102 / November 2012

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02 November 2012, pp. 354-355

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9 - Remedy of prohibition against Roman judges incivil trials
from II - Continental law
- By Ernest Metzger*
Edited by Paul Brand, University of Oxford, Joshua Getzler, University of Oxford
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Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law

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12 January 2012, pp 177-191
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- By Paul Brand, Paul D. Halliday, Phil Handler, Dirk Heirbaut, John H. Langbein, Michael Lobban, Ernest Metzger, Ulrike Muessig, Susan Priest, Rebecca Probert, David J. Seipp, A. J. B. Sirks, Chantal Stebbings, Martin J. Wiener, David V. Williams, Ian Williams
Edited by Paul Brand, University of Oxford, Joshua Getzler, University of Oxford
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Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law

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A JURISTIC FESTSCHRIFT
Ernest Metzger
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The Classical Review / Volume 54 / Issue 2 / October 2004

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12 April 2006, pp. 526-527

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Roman Judges, Case Law, and Principles of Procedure
Ernest Metzger
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Law and History Review / Volume 22 / Issue 2 / Summer 2004

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28 October 2011, pp. 243-275

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Summer 2004
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Most who study Roman law today do so as historians, not lawyers. History includes doctrine, but Roman legal doctrine is rarely used to solve modern problems. There are exceptions: Roman law helps to solve modern problems in certain jurisdictions and academic writing sometimes gives a Roman solution to a modern problem. But the time is past when Roman sources were routinely put to work in the world of affairs, and most would say codification is the main reason.

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