William Warwick Buckland, M.A.

Master of Arts (postgraduate)

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, LL.D. (11 June 1859 - 16 January 1946) was a Roman Law

Roman law

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 scholar, Regius Professor of Civil Law

Regius Professor of Civil Law (Cambridge)

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 in the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 from 1914 to 1945.

Life

William Warwick Buckland was educated in France

France

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, at Hurstpierpoint College

Hurstpierpoint College

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 and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Caius College, Cambridge in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos. 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

British Academy

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. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, Edinburgh

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 (1922), Harvard

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 (1929), Lyon

University of Lyon

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, Louvain

Catholic University of Leuven

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 and Paris

University of Paris

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. Among his most famous works on Roman Law is A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian, the most important and valuable treatise on the subject yet published in Britain, and a standard text ever since.

Works

• 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
  Arnold McNair, 1st Baron McNair
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  )
• 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
  Hermann Kantorowicz
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  with the collaboration of W.W. Buckland)
• Some Reflections on Jurisprudence (Cambridge: University Press, 1945)

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