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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.

Life

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

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Buckland, William Warwick (BKLT881WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  2. ^ Cf. The University of Edinburgh, Registry, Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh: 1900-1949
  3. ^ Cf. Harvard University Gazette, This month in Harvard history (Sept. 25, 1929)
  4. ^ Cf. David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 156.
  5. ^ 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)