• Hans Julius Wolff, "The Historical and Constitutional Background of Roman Law", in Roman Law: An Historical Introduction (1951)
• Alan Watson, Roman Law and Comparative Law 1-26 (1991)
• Peter M. Tiersma, "Rites of Passage: Legal Ritual in Roman Law and Anthropological Analogues", 9 Journal of Legal History 3 (1988)
• Barry Nicholas, An Introduction to Roman Law 38-45 (1962) [on Justinian's codification]
• M. Carr Ferguson, "A Day in Court in Justinian's Rome: Some Problems of Evidence, Proof and Justice in Roman Law", 46 Iowa Law Review 732 (1961)

Recommended Reading

• Laurette Barnard, "The Criminalisation of Heresy in the Later Roman Empire: A Sociopolitical Device?", 16 Journal of Legal History 121 (1995)
• W.W. Buckland, "Ritual Acts and Words in Roman Law", in Festschrift Paul Koschaker 16 (1939)
• W.W. Buckland, A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian (Peter Stein, ed., 3rd ed., 1963)
• Anton-Hermann Chroust, "Legal Education in Ancient Rome", 7 Journal of Legal Education, 509 (1955)
• John Crook, Law and Life of Rome (1967)
• J.A. Crook, Legal Advocacy in the Roman World (1995)
• Richard Leo Enos, The Literate Mode of Cicero's Legal Rhetoric (1988)
• Bruce Frier, The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's Pro Caecina (1985)
• Jane F. Gardner, Women in Roman Law and Society (1986)
• Daniel J. Gargola, Lands, Law and Gods: Magistrates and Ceremony in the Regulation of Public Lands in Republican Rome (1995)
• Erich S. Gruen, Roman Politics and the Criminal Courts, 149-78 B.C. (1968)
• Herbert Hausmaniger, "'Benevolent' and 'Humane' Opinions of Classical Roman Jurists", 61 Boston University Law Review 1138 (1981)
• A.M. Honore, "The Background to Justinian's Codification", 48 Tulane Law Review 859 (1974)
• A.M. Honore, "Legal Reasoning in Rome and Today", 4 Cambrian Law Review 58 (1973)
• Tony Honore, Emperors and Lawyers (1994)
• Patrick Hutton, "Decoding the Legends of Roman Law" in History and the Art of Memory 39-43 (1993) [on orality, literacy and the Twelve Tables]
• David Johnston, "Limiting Liability: Roman Law and the Civil Law Tradition", 70 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1515 (1995)
• H.F. Jolowicz and Barry Nicholas, Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law (3rd ed., 1972)
• A.H.M. Jones, The Criminal Courts of the Roman Republic and Principate (1972)
• C.F. Kolbert, trans., Justinian: The Digest of Roman Law (1979)
• Wolfgang Kunkel, An Introduction to Roman Legal and Constitutional History (2nd ed., 1972)
• Law and Society in Byzantium (Angeliki E. Laiou and Diter Simon eds., 1994)
• Ernst Levy, West Roman Vulgar Law: The Law of Property (1951)
• Andrew Lintott, Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic (1992)
• Geoffrey MacCormack, "Formalism, Symbolism and Magic in Early Roman law", 37 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 439 (1969)
• Geoffrey MacCormack, "Roman and African Litigation", 39 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 221 (1971)
• Geoffrey MacCormack, "Anthropology and Early Roman Law", Irish Jurist 173 (1979)
• Elizabeth Anne Meyer, Literacy, Literate Practice and the Law in the Roman Empire, A.D. 100-600 Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1990
• O.F. Robinson, "The Role of the Senate in Roman Criminal Law During the Principate", 17 Journal of Legal History (1996)
• Robert Rogers, Criminal Trials and Criminal Legislation Under Tiberius (1935)
• Fritz Schulz, History of Roman Legal Science (1951)
• William Seagle, "Gaius" in Men of Law (1947)
• George Sellett et al., "Archaic Methods of Validating a Contract: The 'Blow' and the 'Libation'", 21 Michigan Law Review 79 (1922)
• A.N. Sherwin-White, Roman Society and Roman Law in the New Testament (1963)
• Peter Stein, "Interpretation and Legal Reasoning in Roman Law", 70 Chicago-Kent Law Review 1539 (1995)
• Paul R. Swarney, "Social Status and Social Behaviour as Criteria in Judicial Proceedings in the Late Republic", in Law, Politics, and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Baruch Halpen, ed., 1993)
• The Theodosian Code (Jill Harris & Ian Woods eds., 1993)
• Alan Watson, Law Making in the Later Roman Republic (1974)
• Alan Watson, Roman Private Law Around 200 BC (1971)
• Alan Watson, Roman Slave Law (1987)
• Alan Watson, Rome of the XII Tables: Persons and Property (1975)
• Alan Watson, The Spirit of Roman Law (1995)
• Callie Williamson, "Monuments of Bronze: Roman Legal Documents on Bronze Tablets", 6 Classical Antiquity 160 (1987)
• Francis de Zulueta, The Institutes of Gaius (1946)

Suggestions for new Readings are always appreciated.