Speaker: Dr Peter Candy (Cambridge)
Please note change of speaker/title for this event.
The lex Aquilia was a Roman statute of the third century BC that established the legal framework in Roman law for dealing with cases of damage to property. The first chapter of the statute provided that if a person wrongfully killed a slave or beast of burden of a certain kind they were liable to pay a penalty to the owner. In Digest title 9.2 (on the lex Aquilia) there is a cluster of texts concerned with the interpretation of ‘killing’, where the victim died after being assaulted by multiple attackers. Since the scenarios are in some cases the same as those that throw up issues of causation in the modern law, the texts have attracted sustained scholarly attention. In this paper I re-examine the texts from the perspective of classical logic, to show that the Roman jurists, especially Julian, approached these cases through the prism of Aristotelian dialectic.
Sandwiches served in the Lower Ground Atrium between 12.30pm and 1pm; seminar to commence in S19 at 1pm.
Open to Faculty members, visitors, invitees and LLM/MCL/PhD students.
We hope that you can make it to these exciting events: Peter Candy, Poorna Mysoor, Eugene Shevchuk, Fleur Stolker (Convenors)
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