William Warwick Buckland

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), [Cf. [http://www.registry.ed.ac.uk/graduations/Honorary_Grads/Hons_1900_1949.htm The University of Edinburgh, Registry, "Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh: 1900-1949"] ] Harvard (1929), [Cf. [http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/09.26/02-history.html Harvard University Gazette, "This month in Harvard history (Sept. 25, 1929)"] ] 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. [Cf. David M. Walker, "The Oxford Companion to Law", Oxford: "Clarendon Press", 1980, p. 156.]

Works

[http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/buckland/RomanLawSlavery.pdf "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) [ [http://www.stephankinsella.com/texts/buckland_roman.pdf 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)]

"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)

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