Table of Contents

Principle and Pragmatism Benjamin Spagnolo and Joe Sampson 2. Modes of Roman Legal Reasoning in Context: A Brief Survey Paul J du Plessis 3. The Case of the Careless Purchaser, or ‘Bonitary Ownership’ and Ownership Mike Macnair 4. Explaining D. 41.1.36 Joe Sampson 5. The Place of Rhetoric in Late Republican Law: Some Thoughts on Pietas and the Querela Inofficiosi Testamenti Graeme Cunningham 6. Writing, Speaking and the Roman Stipulatio David Ibbetson 7. Principle and Practice in the Pacta Adiecta Boudewijn Sirks 8. Plato, Principle and Pragmatism: Market Regulation in D. 50.11.2 Constantin Willems 9. Limits of Juristic Argument in the Exercitorian Edict Peter Candy 10. Insulam Exurere: Reading Collatio 12.7.1–3 Closely Wolfgang Ernst 11. Quasi and (Cor)ruptio Benjamin Spagnolo

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The essays in this ground-breaking collection examine the interplay between principle and pragmatism in juristic arguments across a range of topics in Roman private law.

About the Author

Benjamin Spagnolo is Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Trinity College, Cambridge. Joe Sampson is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Law at Magdalen College, Oxford.