How and Why Would You Study Roman Law? [No. 86 LECTURE]

Is Roman Law still relevant? Do you need to know Latin to understand it? How could it possibly help us learn more about modern law? Professor Richard Epstein makes a compelling case for why lawyers and students ought to learn Roman Law and how it can illuminate the complexities in fundamental legal topics. Learn more at fedsoc.org/no86.
Professor Richard Epstein is the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, and Professor of Law Emeritus and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago.
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As always, the Federalist Society takes no position on particular legal or public policy issues; all expressions of opinion are those of the speaker.

[@GrubenM]

Some primary texts mentioned in the lecture:
The Institutes of Gaius
The Institutes of Justinian

[@johannessanmiguel]

WTF? I teach continental civil law and this insight on Roman law is really accurate and thorough!! Outstanding!!

[@TheBriRu]

just keep em coming.

[@alicebezerra6083]

2:35 - "Roman law was made by professors like me" - The ten tyrants of the Decemvirs laugh on hell. How can a statement be more problematic? Are you talking about the compilation of laws made at Justinian times or the real Roman Law, created by the political struggles at the Roman Republic? There is no way a fancy university professor can be compared of the old good statemen of Roman Republic facing wars and popular unrest. At best, University Scholars can do a good compilations, like they did by the end of Middle Ages at the Glosas, and it is all. But do not make the mistake to consider such compilations the roman law, It is like to assume Kant Phylosophy is the book contained the words written by Kant. But in certains sense, an univeristy professor really looks like the old Ulpiano and others who worked compiling the laws by decree of the Emperor: both survives from public stipend

[@sul141]

He's talking about the general principles of roman CIVIL law, that were created, developed and taught by "university" professors with ius publice respondendi, you peacock.

[@BecomeAWebDev]

Very good. But should you use the infinitive with the 'to', ie "to study" after why? (in the title to the video i mean)