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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...