Bonitary Ownership and Ownership
Tony Thomas Seminars in Roman Law Series: 2018-19
JAC (Tony) Thomas was Professor of Roman Law at UCL from 1965 to 1981. His famously inspiring lectures and influential research established a tradition of Roman law scholarship in the Faculty of Laws, which the Tony Thomas Seminars in Roman Law both continue and celebrate.
Bonitary Ownership and Ownership
22 Feb 2019, 17:00 – 19:00
Speaker:
Professor Mike McNair, University of Oxford
Abstract
This paper explores the idea that Gaius’s pedagogic choice about which example of ‘bonitary ownership’ to use in G.2.40-41 supports a medieval and modern conception of ownership as a right rather than a status with both rights and liabilities attached.
About the Speaker
Mike Macnair is Associate Professor of Law in the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow in Law at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. His research interests are in legal history and Roman law.