Justinian's Digest

Tony Honoré is the Emeritus Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University. An Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Professor Honoré has been teaching at Oxford for over sixty years. He is the author over twenty books on legal philosophy, trust law, and Roman legal history, including (with H.L.A. Hart) Causation in the Law, two editions of Ulpian, Law in the Crisis of Empire, the edited volumes Making Law Bind and Responsibility and Fault, and About Law.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. How Tribonian Organized the Compilation of Justinian's Digest ; 3. The Distribution of Authors and Works to the Committees ; 4. Editing the Digest ; 5. Late Arrivals. The Appendix Reconsidered ; 6. Some Digest Texts of Ulpian Attributed to Paul ; Addendum A: Bluhme-Kruger Ordo (updated) ; Addendum B: Analysis of Displaced Texts ; Bibliography ; Index of Texts

Anyone who wants to do further research into the compilation of the Digest may find this book useful, to the extent that it presents Honoré's own ideas in a slightly revised form and gives references to other relevant literature, and of course Honoré's observations provide plenty of food for thought.