This is a study of the laws of the late Roman Empire (379-455 AD). The book attempts to compile a list assigning each law to the likely quaestor who drafted it and explores why the eastern Theodosian Code came too late to save the West.
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Against the backdrop of the recent changes in the selection mechanisms to the Court of Justice of the EU and the European Court of Human Rights, this book provides not only unique insights into how the new systems operate, but also their critical and comparative evaluation.
This volume explores Roman law and canon law to chart the various responses to the turbulent years of the Iconoclast era, c.680-850, which saw the rise of Islam and the emergence of medieval Byzantium from the wreckage of ancient Rome.
This history of the discipline of public law in Germany covers three dramatic decades of the twentieth century. It opens with the First World War, analyzes the highly creative years of the Weimar Republic, and recounts the decline of German public law that began in 1933 and exte…
This reference covers the legal frameworks of mining of forty European countries, especially those in the southeast, which possess a large wealth of deposits. It discusses relevant legislation and offers an overview of approaches to mineral resources policy.
Cicero's courtroom speeches are the most significant examples we have of the art of the ancient Roman advocate. This book takes the speeches seriously as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, aiming to set them in context of the Roman legal system, and to compare th…
In many respects the consumer is supposed to be the ultimate beneficiary of the process of market integration in Europe, but the EC Treaty has never included an elaborate recognition of how the EU serves the consumer interest. This highly esteemed book, now in its second edition…
