Just remember—when you make fun of Ulpian’s self-aggrandizing notion of jurists as ‘sacerdotes’ at D.1.1, THIS is who you’re making fun of. #romanlaw#guilttrip

tfw you’ve made yourself regent to the child ruler Severus Alexander, but end up being killed on a military coup sometime between 223 and 228 C.E. #romanlaw#awkward

Hadrian’s Edictum Perpetuum IS brat #romanlaw#digest#bookxcx

New book on the Roman law of succession. #RomanLawedinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-rom...

The Roman Law of Inheritance

The Roman Law of Inheritance

My former PhD student, Peter Candy (Cambridge), is about to publish his first book on #RomanLaw. Out in 2025 through Michigan University Press. I could not be more proud. I don’t think he’s on this platform yet, so it falls to me to sing his praises.

Another Roman law “bucket list” item. The Temple of Apollo at Didyma. It was the oracle residing here that Diocletian visited in 302 to ask whether to persecute the Christians. #RomanLaw

This week I finally managed to tick off an item from my Roman law “bucket list”! These are remains of the building in Afrodisias, where Diocletian’s edict on maximal prices was inscribed. #RomanLaw

Writing teaching observation reports this morning. Turns out it’s hard to observe a class if you start screaming whenever you meet a new person. #romanlaw#relatable

This afternoon at 5.30. Hybrid. www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...#RomanLaw

“What was the actio oneris aversi?”

Here we were talking about the project almost 3 years ago in a Cambridge conference on "Decolonising Archives": www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhg_...#ancientlaw#legalhistory#romanlaw#hindulaw