Ernest Metzger AB JD DPhil

Douglas Professor of Civil Law

The School of Law
Stair Building
5 - 8 The Square
University of Glasgow
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Scotland

Tel: (0141) 330 6380
Fax: (0141) 330 4900
E-Mail: ernest.metzger@glasgow.ac.uk

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Post

Douglas Professor of Civil Law, School of Law, University of Glasgow, 2006—

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
Editor, Roman Legal Tradition
General Editor, Traditio Iuris Romani

Qualifications

D.Phil., University of Oxford, 1995.
J.D., Southern Methodist University School of Law, 1986.
A.B. with Honours, University of Illinois, 1983.

Louisiana State Bar Association, 1989.
State Bar of Texas, 1986.

Books

[with K. Baston], The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, with a Bibliography of His Works. Glasgow: Traditio Iuris Romani. 2012.

ed., David Daube: A Centenary Celebration. Glasgow: Traditio iuris romani. 2010.

rev., Barry Nicholas, Introduction to Roman Law. Oxford: Oxford university Press. 2008

Litigation in Roman Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2005). ISBN 0-19-829855-2.

ed., Law For All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube. Lawrence, KS: Roman Law Society of America. 2004. ISBN 0-97-641490-2.

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).

A New Outline of the Roman Civil Trial. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1997. ISBN 0-19-826474-7.

Selected articles and reviews

'Litigation'. In: D. Johnston, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Review: Miriam Indra, Status quaestio. Studien zum Freiheitsprozess im klassischen römischen Recht [2011]. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, rom. Abt., vol. 130 (forthcoming).

'An Outline of Roman Civil Procedure'. Roman Legal Tradition, 9 (2013), 1-30. [link]

'Agree to Disagree: Local Jurisdiction in the lex Irnitana'. In: Burrows, A., Johnston, D. and Zimmermann, R., eds., Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013.

'Alan Rodger's Writings on Roman Law'. In: Baston, K. and Metzger, E., eds., The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works. Glasgow: Traditio Iuris Romani. 2012. Pp. 189-198.

'Alan Ferguson Rodger (1944-2011)'. IVRA: Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Romano e Antico, 60 (2012), 358-364.

'Law and procedure, Rome: Civil procedure [additions and revisions to]'. In: Hornblower, S., Spawforth, A. and Eidinow, E., eds., Oxford Classical Dictionary. 4th edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012.

'Obligations in Classical Procedure. In: McGinn, T.A.J., ed., Obligations In Roman Law: Past, Present, and Future. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2012. Pp. 158-173.

Amendments to Law and Procedure, Rome: Civil Procedure, in: S. Hornblower & A. Spawforth, edd., Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012.

Review: A. M. Riggsby, Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans. Journal of Roman Studies, 102 (2012), 354-55.

'Remedy of Prohibition in Roman Civil Trials'. In: P. Brand & J. Getzler, eds., Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law and Civil Law: From Antituity to Modern Times. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012. [preprint via SSRN]

'Vindex'; 'Vadimonium'. In: R. Bagnall, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2012.

'Adam Smith's Historical Jurisprudence and the "Method of the Civilians"'. Loyola Law Review, 56 (2010), 1-31.

'Remarks on Daube’s Lectures on Sale, with Special Attention to the liber homo and res extra commercium. In: E. Metzger, ed., David Daube: A Centenary Celebration. Glasgow: Traditio iuris romani. 2010. Pp. 101-26.

'Civil Procedure in Classical Rome: Having an Audience with the Magistrate'. In: de Angelis, F., and harris, W., eds., Spaces of Justice in the Roman World. Leiden: Brill. 2010. Pp. 27-41. [preprint via SSRN]

Review of C. Anderson, Roman Law [2009]. Scots Law Times, 29 (10 Sept 2010). P. 164.

'Adam Smith's Historical Jurisprudence and the "Method of the Civilians"'. Loyola Law Review, 56 (2010), 1-31. [preprint via SSRN]

'Lex Irnitana', In: The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009.

'Formula'. In: The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. New York: Oxford University Press. 2009.

Review (German) of J. Platschek, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius (2005), in Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (rom. Abt.), 124 (2007), pp. 669–71.

Review (English) of J. Platschek, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius (2005), in Roman Legal Tradition, 3 (2006), pp. 135–37.

'Lawsuits in Context', in P. du Plessis, Studies in Roman Law and Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2006. [via SSRN]

'Absent Parties and Bloody-Minded Judges', in A. Burrows and A. Rodger, eds., Mapping the Law. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2006.

'A Fragment of Ulpian on acceptilatio and intertium'. Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris, 72 (2006).

Review of J. Powell and J. Paterson (edd.), Cicero the Advocate, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (2005).

Review of E. Meyer, Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World, in The Irish Jurist (2005).

'Clytemnestra’s Watchman on the Roof', Eranos, 103 (2005), 38-57. [postprint via SSRN]

Review of L de Ligt, et al. (edd.), Viva vox iuris Romani, in: The Classical Review, 54 (2004), 526–27.

'Adam Smith and Roman Servitudes', Tijdschrift voor Rechstsgeschiedenis, 72 (2004), 327–57. [via SSRN].

'Acquisition of Living Things by Specification', Edinburgh Law Review, 8 (2004), 115–18. [via SSRN]

'Roman Judges, Case Law, and Principles of Procedure', Law and History Review, 22 (2004), 243-75. [preprint via SSRN].

'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. [via SSRN]

'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. [via SSRN].

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 vadimonium', Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte (rom. Abt.) 117 (2000), 133-78. [via SSRN]

'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).

'Actions', in E. Metzger (ed), A companion to Justinian's Institutes. London: Duckworth, and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1998. Pp. 208-28. [via SSRN]

Selected papers

'Suing slaves and sons- and daughters-in-power in Irni'. Ancient law in context, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. 17 January 2014.

'Slave litigant?'. Symposium amicorum in honour of Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Tilburg, Netherlands. 12 December 2013.

'Adam Smith's Roman law: abandoning the map'. Roman law and the civilian tradition: Japan and Scotland, Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, United Kingdom. 26 August 2013.

'William Forbes: rediscovery of a lecture on Justinian's Institutes'. British Legal History Conference, Glasgow, United Kingdom. 11 July 2013.

'Roman civil procedure: shaping the substantive law'. A legal culture for Europe, Pavia, Italy. 24-25 September 2012.

'Lord Rodger's library'. 66th Session of the Société Internationale pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Oxford. September 2012.

'Local Jurisdiction in the lex Irnitana: palingenesia'. London Roman Law Group, University College London, United Kingdom. 24 February 2012.

'Jurisdiction in Baetica: reading a misassembled inscription'. Classics and ancient history research seminar, University of Manchester. 8 December 2011.

'Municipal jurisdiction and the Julian law on private trials'. 65th Session of the Société Internationale pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Université de Liège, Belgium. 21 September 2011.

'How early is the cognitio?'. Die alltägliche Realität der Rechtsprechung in der hohen Kaiserzeit, Menaggio, Italy. 8-11 September 2010.

'The Evolution of Adam Smith’s Historical Jurisprudence'. Research Seminar, University of Aberdeen. 26 November 2009.

'Accommodating Roman Private Law to the Four Ages of Civilisation'. Smith in Glasgow ’09, University of Glasgow. 1 April 2009.

'Daube on Sale'. David Daube Centenary Celebration Meeting, University of Aberdeen, 27 February 2009.

'Administering Justice and Avoiding Further Litigation: Obligations in Classical Procedure'. American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Ottawa, Canada. 14 November 2008.

'Obligations in Classical Procedure'.A Conference on Roman Law: The Future of Obligations, American Academy in Rome. 12-14 March 2008.

'Having an Audience with the Magistrate'. Spaces of Justice in the Roman World. The Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University, New York, 16 November 2007.

'Remedy of Prohibition against Roman Judges in Civil Trials'. The 18th British Legal History Conference, St Catherine’s College, Oxford. 4 July 2007.

'Roman Law as Comparative Law'. Edinburgh Roman Law Group, Edinburgh, 1 December 2006.

'Forcing Judges to Judge'. 60th Session of the Société Internationale 'Fernand De Visscher' pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Université Démocrite de Thrace, Komotini. 27 September 2006.

'How the Romans Got Someone to Court'. American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, 12 November 2005.

'Pressure to Publish'. Law and Society Conference, University of Edinburgh, 1 October 2005.

'The Praetor is Out to Lunch'. 59th Session of the Société Internationale ‘Fernand De Visscher’ pour l'Histoire des Droits de l'Antiquité, Bochum, Germany, 22 September 2005.

'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.

'Ladungsvadimonium 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 Ladungsvadimonium'. 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 vadimonium 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.