Roman law left a profound legacy, serving as the foundation for legal systems across Europe and beyond. This video explores how principles developed in the Roman courts became the backbone of medieval ...

In new book, CU Boulder classics Professor Zach Herz focuses on the law, the bureaucrat and the Roman Empire When Zach Herz talks about Roman law, he says things like, “Maybe the biggest misconception ...

Having grown up in the years after Nostra Aetate – the Vatican document rejecting the traditional accusation that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus – I assumed it was a settled issue.

Why is Roman law so boring? In this book, Zachary Herz argues that the bureaucratic, positivistic world of Roman law is not a distraction from the violent autocracy of the Roman empire, but an ...

Part of an ancient Roman law code previously thought to have been lost forever has been discovered by researchers at UCL's Department of History. Simon Corcoran and Benet Salway made the breakthrough ...

Pope Paul called the Second Vatican Council “the beginning not the end” of renewal in the Roman Catholic Church, but apart from the vernacular liturgy, change has come slowly. To get on with reform, a ...