William Warwick Buckland

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William Warwick Buckland, FBA (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.[1]

Life[edit]

William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos.[2] 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),[3] Harvard (1929),[4] 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.[5]

He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.

Works[edit]

  • 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 – via Internet Archive.
  • 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)[6]
  • 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 with the collaboration of W.W. Buckland)
  • Some Reflections on Jurisprudence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1945. ISBN 9780208014078.

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ Duff, P. W.; Wilfrid E. Rumble (23 September 2004). "Buckland, William Warwick ((1859–1946)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32156. Retrieved 12 December 2023. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Buckland, William Warwick (BKLT881WW)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Cf. The University of Edinburgh, Registry, Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh: 1900-1949
  4. ^ Cf. Harvard University Gazette, This month in Harvard history (Sept. 25, 1929)
  5. ^ Cf. David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 156.
  6. ^ 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)

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