- Roman Law: Delict/Torts

Catalog description

This course examines Roman law and society through the Roman law of delict (wrongful harm to persons and property punished through private law, roughly equivalent to torts in Anglo-American common law). Through the careful discussion of cases (case-study method), we will learn about the nature of law and legal thinking, how it worked (or didn’t), and how legal practice reflected and shaped ethical, economic, and social ideas.