The Regula as a Rhetorical Device in Roman Law

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71101-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 71, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 238 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Legal History Library

In this book, it is argued that twenty regulae in title D. 50.17 of Justinian’s Digest are not the legal rules that scholarly wisdom has long held them to be, but are instead rhetorical arguments. As arguments, these regulae do not comfortably fit the modern perception of Roman law as a system and sometimes even appear to have no connection with law whatsoever. By explaining them in the context of rhetoric, and of Cicero’s Topica especially, the authors identify and reconstruct the original tenor of these twenty regulae as well as that of the famous regula Catoniana, stating their case for a paradigm shift in the study of Roman law in the process.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tellegen-Couperus, Olga

Tellegen, Jan Willem

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Ph.D. (1982), University of Amsterdam, is Associate Professor Emerita of Legal History at Tilburg Law School. She has published extensively on Roman law and rhetoric as found in the works of Cicero, Quintilian, and the classical Roman jurists.

Jan Willem Tellegen, Ph.D. (1982), University of Amsterdam, is Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Legal History at Utrecht Law School. He has published extensively on Roman law and rhetoric as found in the works of Cicero, Pliny the Younger, and the classical Roman jurists.