Ancient Law in Context - “Law and Education”
Location:
Moot Court Room
Date/time
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21st April 2023 - 13:00
22nd April 2023 - 13:30
Ancient Law in Context is an interdisciplinary research network comprising scholars from different disciplines who are interested in the interplay between law and society in the ancient Mediterranean. The co-ordinators of this group are Professor Paul J. du Plessis in the School of Law and Dr Ulrike Roth in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. While Dr Roth is on Sabbatical leave, the co-ordinators from HCA are Dr Kimberley Czajkowski and Dr Benedikt Eckhardt.
We start from the belief that there are a number of fundamental problems to be addressed: how and how far Roman law and other legal systems provided a framework for, and even perhaps facilitated, economic development, social change and political evolution, and whether that development, change and evolution modified the content and procedures of Roman law and other ancient legal systems; and how the use of legal evidence may lead to a better understanding of ancient societies, and vice versa. While the expertise of the co-ordinators lies within the study of law and society in the Graeco-Roman world, the network aims to include discussion of legal systems also of other parts of the ancient world.
ALC also provides a forum for doctoral students to undertake research on aspects that fall within the remit of the network.
ALC aims to meet as a network once per term to discuss a specific issue within its remit. The topic of this meeting is “Law and Education”
This event is in-person only. Please register to attend.
Agenda of the day can be found below.
Friday 21st April
13.00 onwards – Gathering and Coffee (Moot Court Room - Edinburgh Law School)
13.20-14.10
Jill Harries
Education versus Text: the Adventures of Lucius Titius & Co
30 minutes WiP & Discussion (20 minutes)
Coffee (20 minutes)
14.30-15.20
Renske Janssen
Discussion surrounding legal Education in Tacitus’ Dialogus de Oratoribus
30 minutes WiP & Discussion (20 minutes)
Coffee (20 minutes)
15.40 – 16.30
Marzena Wojtczak
Learning by doing or doing by Learning? Legal devices in Dioskoros’ dossier
30 minutes WiP & Discussion (20 minutes)
16.30-17.20
Jakub Urbanik
Dioskoros’ Legal Latin
30 minutes WiP & Discussion (20 minutes)
Coffee (20 minutes)
17.40
José Luis Alonso
Corruption and Legal Skills: P. Oxy. 5209 reconsidered
15 Minutes (Source) & discussion
Saturday 22nd April
(Moot Court Room - Edinburgh Law School)
9.20-10.10
Benet Salway
Diocletian and colleagues on the Manichees (Collatio 15.3) revisited
30 minutes WiP & Discussion (20 minutes)
10.10-10.40
Maciej Jonca
“The Roman Law of Sale” by Francis de Zulueta as a universal textbook on Roman Law. Experiences of the students of the Polish Faculty of Law at Oxford (1944-1947)
15 minutes (short paper) & discussion (15 minutes)
Coffee (20 minutes)
11.00-11.50
Anna Dolganov
Imperial law beyond the edge of empire: Roman rules for the appointment of judges in Chersonesus Taurica
30 minutes WiP & Discussion (20 minutes)
Coffee (20 minutes)
12.10-13.00
Edward Harris
Ephebarchic Law from Amphipolis
30 minutes WiP & Discussion (20 minutes)
13.00-13.30
Lina Girdvainyte
τῶν νόμων ἐμπειρία
15 Minutes (Source) & discussion