William Warwick Buckland
William Warwick Buckland, M.A., LL.D. (11 June 1859 - 16 January 1946) was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945.
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Life[edit]
William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Caius College, Cambridge, in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos.[1] Elected a Fellow of Caius, he remained a Cambridge academic for the remainder of his life. In 1920 he became a Fellow of the British Academy. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh (1922),[2] Harvard (1929),[3] Lyon, Louvain and Paris. Among his best-known works on Roman Law is A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian, which became a standard text.[4]
He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
Works[edit]
- The Roman Law of Slavery: The Conditions of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian (Cambridge: University Press, 1908)
- Equity in Roman Law: Lectures Delivered in the University of London, at the Request of the Faculty of Laws (London: University of London Press, 1911)
- Elementary Principles of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1912)
- A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian (Cambridge: University Press, 1921)
- A Manual of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1925)
- The Main Institutions of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1931)
- Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline (Cambridge: University Press, 1936) (with the collaboration of Arnold D. McNair)[5]
- Studies in the Glossators of the Roman Law: Newly Discovered Writings of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge: University Press, 1938) (edited and explained by Hermann F. Kantorowicz with the collaboration of W.W. Buckland)
- Some Reflections on Jurisprudence (Cambridge: University Press, 1945)
Footnotes[edit]
- ^ "Buckland, William Warwick (BKLT881WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Cf. The University of Edinburgh, Registry, Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh: 1900-1949
- ^ Cf. Harvard University Gazette, This month in Harvard history (Sept. 25, 1929)
- ^ Cf. David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 156.
- ^ Buckland, W.W., McNair, A.D., Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline, 2d ed., revised by Lawson, F.H., Cambridge: University Press, 1965 (portions)
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