Lost in translations : Roman law scholarship and translation in early twentieth-century America / Timothy G. Kearley.
2018
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Author
Title
Lost in translations : Roman law scholarship and translation in early twentieth-century America / Timothy G. Kearley.
Published
Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, 2018.
Call Number
KF358 .K43 2018
ISBN
9781531007225 (alk. paper)
1531007228 (alk. paper)
1531007228 (alk. paper)
Description
xxi, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1022977708
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
xiii
Foreword
xv
Preface
xvii
Acknowledgments
xxi
ch. One
Classics and Roman Law in the Colonial and Early National Eras
A.
Education
4
Primary and Secondary Education
4
Higher Education
6
B.
Books and Libraries
9
Law Books and Law Libraries
11
C.
Influence of the Classics and the Roman Republic on the Founders
12
Classics and Ancient History Generally
12
Roman and Civil Law
14
Possible Adoption of the Civil Law in the United States
17
ch. Two
Samuel Parsons Scott, the Classics, and Roman Law in the Antebellum Era
A.
Samuel Parsons Scott (1846-1929)
19
B.
Education in Antebellum America
23
Primary and Secondary Education
23
Higher Education
26
Legal Education
27
C.
Books and Libraries
28
Law Books and Law Libraries
30
D.
Roman and Civil Law
32
Roman and Civil Law Connection to Codification
33
"Domestication" of Roman Law
34
E.
Classics
35
ch. Three
Fred H. Blume, Fellow-Romanists, the Classics, and Roman Law in the Gilded Age
Introduction
37
A.
Fred H. Blume (1875-1971)
37
B.
Charles Sumner Lobingier, Charles Phineas Sherman, and Clyde Pharr
40
Charles Sumner Lobingier (1866-1956)
40
Charles Phineas Sherman (1874-1962)
43
Clyde Pharr (1883-1972)
45
C.
Education
48
Primary and Secondary Education
48
Higher Education
49
Legal Education
52
D.
Roman Law and the Classics
55
Roman Law
55
Law Books
56
Classics
56
ch. Four
Roman Law in Early Twentieth-Century America
Introduction
61
A.
Condition of Legal Profession and Legal Education
61
B.
Classics in Secondary and Higher Education and in the Elite Bar
64
Secondary and Higher Education
64
Elite Bar
65
C.
Restatements and Roman Law
68
D.
Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America
72
Classics and Roman Law in the Elite Bar
78
ch. Five
Charles Sumner Lobingier and Charles Phineas Sherman: Careers, Scholarship, and Translations
Introduction
81
A.
Charles Sumner Lobingier
81
Judicial Career
81
Second Career: Academic and Attorney
86
Lobingier's Roman Law Legacy
91
B.
Charles Phineas Sherman
93
Law Practice
93
Teaching at Yale
94
Reception of his Magnum Opus; Itinerate Teaching
96
Back to Boston
103
Reception of Epitome and Roman Law in the Modern World 3rd Edition
103
Remaining Career
105
Sherman's Roman Law Legacy
106
ch. Six
Samuel P. Scott, Fred H. Blume, and Clyde Pharr: Careers, Scholarship, and Translations
Introduction
109
A.
Samuel Parsons Scott
109
Early Career and Change of Course
109
Scott's Writing Career
114
Scott's Translations and Their Receptions
117
1.
Visigothic Code
117
2.
Las Siete Partidas
121
3.
Civil Law and Other Translations
124
Scott's Roman Law Legacy
132
B.
Fred H. Blume
132
Early Career and Change of Course
132
Corpus Juris Civilis
137
Start and First Draft of the Justinian Code Translation
140
Revisions and Notes
144
Involvement with Clyde Pharr and the Project for a Variorum Translation into English of the Entire Body of Roman Law (Corpus Juris Romani)
147
"Completion" of the Translation and Collaboration on the Theodosian Code
152
Blume's Roman Law Legacy
155
C.
Clyde Pharr
155
Graduate School, Fellowships, and Early Career
155
Pharr's Change of Course and the Project for a Variorum Translation into English of the Entire Body of Roman Law {Corpus Juris Romani)
157
Publication of the Codex Theodosianus Translation
160
Reception of the Theodosian Code
162
Codex Justinianus
164
Pharr's Roman Law Legacy
167
ch. Seven
Denouement: Justinian's Code in Twenty-First-Century America
Introduction
169
A.
Blume's Manuscript
171
B.
Nature of Blume's Translation
172
C.
Rediscovery of Blume's Manuscript
178
D.
Fred Blume's Roman Law Legacy
180
E.
Justinian's Code in the Twenty-First Century
181
Selective Bibliography
183
Appendix
Appendix 1
Samuel Parsons Scott: Writings and Reviews of His Work
191
Appendix 2
Charles Sumner Lobingier: Writings and Reviews of His Work
195
Appendix 3
Charles Phineas Sherman: Writings and Reviews of His Work
201
Appendix 4
Justice Fred H. Blume: Writings and Reviews of His Work
205
Appendix 5
Clyde Pharr: Writings and Reviews of His Work
207
Index
211