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The Edinburgh Roman Law Group was founded in the early 1980s by the late Professor Peter Birks, then holder of the Chair of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh, later Regius Professor of Civil Law at All Souls, Oxford. It is an interdisciplinary forum devoted to the study of Roman law in its broadest sense. The Group consists of specialists, students and members of the public with a general interest in Roman law.
The group meets on two or three occasions during the course of the academic year, usually on a Friday afternoon at 5.30. Unless otherwise indicated, meetings generally take place in the Lorimer Room, Old College, School of Law, Edinburgh University, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL. All meetings are open to the public.
Professor William Gordon (Professor Emeritus of Civil Law, Glasgow University), 'Roman Law and All That' (30 Nov 2007)
Professor Laurent Waelkens (Catholic University of Leuven), 'Causa Obligationis: Classical Roman Law from the 16th Century'  (22 Feb 2008)
Workshop, 'The use of Roman law in recent Scottish court cases' (18 Apr 2008)
Professor Michael Crawford (University College London), 'The development of law in the late Roman Republic' (2 May 2008)
Professor Jose Luis Alonso (University of San Sebastian),'Hypallagma or Law without Lawyers' (21 Nov 2008)
Joint meeting of the Edinburgh Roman Law Group and the Edinburgh Legal Theory Reading Group. Dr James Lee (University of Birmingham), 'Confusio: Developing English Private law through Reference to Roman law' (26 Nov 2008)
Dr Simon Corcoran (University College London), 'Justinian and his two codes: revisiting P. Oxy. 1814' (27 Mar 2009)
Dr Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck College, University of London), 'The late Roman episcopalis audientia: how (not) to make sense of the legal evidence' (poster ) (1 May 2009)
Professor Wocjciech Dajczak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), 'Res Incorporales: Debate about the Materiality of Property in light of the Roman law tradition'
(Winter 2009)
Dr Eric Descheemaeker (University of Bristol), 'Dividing Wongs: The Civilian Experience' (poster ) (29 Jan 2010)
Professor Martin Avenarius (University of Cologne), 'Benignior Interpretatio: Genesis and Change of an Interception Principle in the Law of Wills' (14 May 2010)
Professor Dr. Filippo Ranieri (Saarland University), 'An encounter with the common law at the University of Göttingen in the mid-eighteenth century: On the Commentatio iuris exotici historica de iure communi Angliae of Christian Hartmann Samuel Gatzert' (Poster) (4 Mar 2011)
Dr. Jakub Urbanik (Warsaw University), 'Marriage and Divorce: a Study in Legal Pluralism in Roman Egypt' (Poster) (1 Apr 2011)
Roberto Fiori, Professor of Roman law, University of Rome (Tor Vergata): 'The rise and fall of the specificity of contracts' and Maria Floriana Cursi, Professor of Roman law, Dean of the Faculty of Law (University of Teramo): 'What did occidere iniuria in the Lex Aquilia actually mean?' (Poster) (12 Aug 2011)
Professor Thomas Rufner (Trier), 'Labour Law and the Ius Commune: Locatio conductio operarum in the writings of 17th and 18th century jurists' (7 Oct 2011)
Professor Timothy Barnes, FBA, FRSC (Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Toronto and Honorary Professorial Fellow School of Divinity & School of History, Classics and Archaeology University of Edinburgh) will speak on 'The Lex Dei on Male Homosexuality: A Reinterpretation of Leviticus and its Implications' (17 Feb 2012).
Professor Dr. Andreas Thier (Professor of Legal History, Canon Law, Legal Theory and Private Law at the University of Zurich), 'The Prince's Power over Money and Medieval Canon Law' (16 March 2012).
Other past speakers include:
Professor Ernest Metzger, Professor Dr. Thomas Finkenauer,Professor Pascal Pichonnaz, Professor Andrew Lintott, Professor Michael Crawford, Professor Robert Feenstra, Professor Jan Lokin, Professor Jan Hallebeek, Dr Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Professor Martin Schermaier, Professor Michael Rainer, Professor Boudewijn Sirks, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, Dr Johanna Filip-Fröschl, Professor Olivia Robinson, Professor Andrew Lewis, Dr Tammo Wallinga, Professor Jean-François Gerkens, Mag. Marguerite Duynstee, Professor Hans Ankum, Professor Eric Pool
In 2004/05, the Edinburgh Roman Law Group organised a mini-conference on the topic 'Law and Society in the Roman World'. Legal historians and ancient historians from Europe and the United States of America were invited to address specific topics within this larger theme. The proceedings of this conference have been edited as a volume in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series as Cairns, JW and Du Plessis, PJ (eds) Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh 2007).
All enquiries about the Edinburgh Roman Law Group may be directed to the convener, Dr PJ du Plessis, School of Law, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh EH8 9YL, alternatively p.duplessis@ed.ac.uk
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