The Invention of Law in the West
Everyone recognizes that during the early Roman Empire law emerged as a professionalized and vital part of statecraft, but few understand the wrenching intellectual controversy that accompanied the transformation.  Aldo Schiavone's terrific book brings this historic debate into dazzling focus. (Bruce Frier, University Michigan)The wide sweep and deeply humanistic approach ofThe Invention of Law in theWest--with its emphasis on the primary sources and concise critical synthesis of much previous scholarship--make this ambitious volume perhaps the best attempt yet by any scholar to animate the venerable yet highly complex, technically demanding and intellectually isolated field of Roman law for a wider readership...It indisputably marks a new and welcome opening in its field. (T. Corey BrennanTime Literary Supplement2012-12-21)