Roman Law

Primary Sources

• The Roman Law Library
  • This website has items in the original language (Latin or Greek) but it also has things organized by category so you can find sources then look them up in English.
• Avalon Project
  • Collection of Ancient Legal texts and inscriptions translated into English.
• Digest of Justinian
  • Scott’s mediocre translation of the Emperor Justinian’s opus. It will be better to get your hands on a hardcopy of Alan Watson’s translation.
• Institutes of Gaius
  • Gaius wrote this textbook on Roman law in the middle of the second century C.E. And another copy of Gaius’ Institutes can be found here.
• Fontes Iuris Romani Anteiustiniani
  • A collection in Greek and Latin of Roman laws, edicts, senatus consulta, etc. known in 1893.

What are scholars of Roman law up to?

• Roman Law Resources
  • This website has some good collections of primary source material – again, not in English, but might lead you to something of import you can then find in English.