In this episode, we explore the project “The Making of Local Legal Cultures under Rome,” featuring an interview with Professor's Yair Furstenberg, from the Hebrew university in Jerusalem. The project examines how communities in the Greek East negotiated their legal identities amid Roman imperial authority, revealing that law was not a vacuum but a contested space where local customs and Roman practice interested. By integrating early rabbinic literature as a key source, the project sheds...

In this episode, I interview Prof. McSweeney about his book, Priests of the Law.

If you are interested in joining the project, email me: [email protected] or DM me on Twitter: @iuscommunepod

Part of a two-part series on French legal history.

We talk about the classical basis for the administrative state generally and the U.S. administrative state specifically.The Many and the Few: On the American Lex Regia by Vermeule:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4321671Marbury and the Administrative State by Monaghan: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1154&context=faculty_scholarshipJudicial Deference to Administrative Interpretations of Law by...

The Formation of the Common Law with Professor John G.H. Hudson of St. Andrew's, Scotland

Professor Sellers and I dive into the Roman republican system with some comparisons to the American Republic and other modern legal systems. This is the first in a two-part series on Roman constitutionalism.

We discuss the specifics of Roman contract law. We also discuss how the Roman Jurists influenced Roman contract law.

An overview of the Republican system of litigation. Bruce Frier's "The Rise of the Roman Jurists": https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691639567/the-rise-of-the-roman-jurists Thomas & McGinn's "Ancient Law, Ancient Society": https://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Law-Society-Dennis-Kehoe/dp/0472130439 Ernest Metzger's "Litigation in Roman Law": https://global.oup.com/academic/product/litigation-in-roman-law-9780198298557?cc=us&lang=en& Andrew Lintott's "The Constitution of...