 | Ernest Philip Metzger AB (University of Illinois) JD (Southern Methodist University) DPhil (University of Oxford)
The School of Law Tel: (0141) 330 3583 |
| Post | Douglas Professor of Civil Law, School of Law, University of Glasgow |
| Formerly | Professor of Civil and Comparative Law, School of Law, University of Aberdeen; Tutor, Faculty of Laws, University College London; Judicial Clerk, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; Judicial Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas; Judicial Clerk, Texas Court of Appeals. |
| Editorial | Editor, Roman Law Resources Co-Editor, Roman Legal Tradition |
| Professional | Member, State Bar of Texas (admitted November 1986) Member, Louisiana State Bar Association (admitted April 1989) | Some recent publications |
'Lawsuits in Context', in P. du Plessis, Studies in Roman Law and Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. Forthcoming.
'Absent Parties and Bloody-Minded Judges', in A. Burrows and A. Rodger (eds), Mapping the Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006. Forthcoming. Litigation in Roman Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005. ISBN 0-19-829855-2. Review of J. Powell and J. Paterson (edd.), Cicero the Advocate, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (2005) (forthcoming). Review of E. Meyer, Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World, in The Irish Jurist (2005) (forthcoming). 'A Fragment of Ulpian on acceptilatio and intertium'. Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris (forthcoming). Review of L de Ligt, et al. (edd.), Viva vox iuris Romani, in: The Classical Review, 54 (2004), 526–27. [Available for downloading, to subscribing institutions, in .PDF]. 'Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes', Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57 [Preprint available for downloading in .PDF]. 'Acquisition of Living Things by Specification', Edinburgh Law Review, 8 (2004), 115–18. [Available for downloading in .PDF or Microsoft® Reader]. (ed), Law For All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube. Lawrence, KS: Roman Law Society of America. 2004. ISBN 0-97-641490-2. 'Roman Judges, Case Law, and Principles of Procedure', Law and History Review, 22 (2004), 243-75. [Preprint available for downloading in .PDF]. Academic Contributor: Roman Law, for Black's Law Dictionary, 8th ed. (St. Paul: West, 2004). 'Clytemnestra’s Watchman on the Roof', Eranos (forthcoming). 'Postscript on nova species and Kinloch Damph Ltd. v. Nordvik Salmon Farms Ltd.', in E. Metzger (ed.), Law For All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube. Lawrence, KS: Roman Law Society of America. 2004. Pp. 115-21. 'Quare? Argument in David Daube, after Karl Popper', in: E. Metzger (ed.), Law For All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube. Lawrence, KS: Roman Law Society of America. 2004. Pp. 27-58. [Available for downloading in .PDF]. Review of K. Haakonssen (ed.), Adam Smith: Theory of Moral Sentiments, in the Edinburgh Law Review 7 (2003), 260-62. Review of L. Fanizza, L'Amministrazione della giustizia nel principato, in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (rom. Abt.) 119 (2002), 610-11. Review of H.L.W. Nelson & U. Manthe, Gai Institutiones III 88-181. Die Kontraktsobligationen: Text und Kommentar, in The Journal of Legal History 22:3 (2001), 89-90. Review of G. Camodeca, Tabulae Pompeianae Sulpiciorum (TPSulp.): Edizione critica del archivio puteolano dei Sulpicii, in the Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001), 234-36. 'The case of Petronia Iusta', Revue Internationale des Droits de l'Antiquité 47 (2000), 151-65. [Available for reading in HTML or for downloading in .PDF or Microsoft® Reader] 'The current view of the extra-judicial uadimonium', Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (rom. Abt.) 117 (2000), 133-78. [Available for reading in HTML or for downloading in .PDF] 'Interrupting proceedings in iure: uadimonium and intertium', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 120 (1998), 215-25. [Available for reading in HTML or for downloading in .PDF] Review of M.H. Hoeflich, Roman and Civil Law and the Development of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century, in Jurist: Books-on-Law (1998). (ed), A companion to Justinian's Institutes. London: Duckworth, and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1998. ISBN 0-7156-2798-8 (Duckworth Hbk); 0-7156-2830-5 (Duckworth Pbk); 0-8014-8584-3 (Cornell Pbk). 'Actions', in E. Metzger (ed), A companion to Justinian's Institutes. London: Duckworth, and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1998. Pp. 208-28. A new outline of the Roman civil trial. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. ISBN 0-19-826474-7. Review of A. Lewis & D. Ibbetson, The Roman Law Tradition, in Law Quarterly Review 111 (1995), 352-355. |
| Some recent papers |
'Roman and Civil Law Resources'. American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 14 November 2003.
'Precedent in Roman Law'. 57th Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 17 September 2003. 'Roman Municipal Charters in Spanish Baetica'. American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 11 November 2001. 'Suing in Classical Rome-Old Theories and New'. Oldfather Lecture, University of Illinois, 9 November 2001. 'Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes'. Civil Law Workshop, University of Aberdeen, 3 November 2001. 'Dealing with the crush of business in iure'. Conference in honour of Alan Watson, University of Glasgow, 19 May 2001. 'The Woman Who Calls Herself Petronia Iusta'. 54th Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Antalya, Turkey, 27 September 2000. 'Bringing a Suit in Rome'. Meeting of the Roman Law Society of America, Lawrence, Kansas, 26 August 2000. 'Voluntary and Compulsory Bail'. Cicero Symposium, St Andrews, 12 June 2000. 'Bail in the pro Quinctio'. St. Andrews Classics Research Seminars, St. Andrews, 25 February 2000. 'Ladungsuadimonium in the Republic'. 53rd Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Exeter, 22 September 1999. 'Evidence for Ladungsuadimonium'. 52nd Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Madrid, 29 September 1998. 'New Considerations on the uadimonium for Summons and for Postponement'. Lex Irnitana Symposium, St John's College, Cambridge, 7 April 1998. 'Roman Civil Trials from Start to Finish'. Edinburgh Roman Law Group, Edinburgh, 28 November 1997. 'Scholarship in the Sunshine'. 50th Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Brussels, 17 September 1996. 'Excusing the Judge'. London Roman Law Group, London, 5 May 1995. 'Appointing unus iudex'. 49th Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, New Orleans, Louisiana, 19 September 1995. 'The One-Day Trial'. 47th Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Oxford, 22 September 1993. |