Bruce W. Frier is Professor of Classics and Roman Law at the University of Michigan. Thomas A.J. McGinn is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Vanderbilt University.
<br> The great merit of this casebook, like its predecessor, is not only that it makes accessible to a non-specialist audience a collection of sources that are forbidding and largely unknown even to most classicists, but also that it presents avenues for exploring ways in which the discourse of law reacts to, engages with, and problematically reflects and refracts social attitudes and experience. Those who elect to construct a course in Roman law along the lines suggested by F/M have been richly equipped to do so. There are many others who will want to own this book (and its predecessor on delict) and to include it on their syllabi as a resource for legal and social history. --Bryn Mawr Classical Review<br>