William Warwick Buckland
William Warwick Buckland, M.A., LL.D. was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945.Life
William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Caius College, Cambridge, in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos. Elected a Fellow of Caius, he remained a Cambridge academic for the remainder of his life. In 1920 he became a Fellow of the British Academy. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh, Harvard, Lyon, Louvain and Paris. Among his best-known works on Roman Law is A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian, which became a standard text.
He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.Works
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- Equity in Roman Law: Lectures Delivered in the University of London, at the Request of the Faculty of Laws
- Elementary Principles of Roman Private Law
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- A Manual of Roman Private Law
- The Main Institutions of Roman Private Law
- Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline
- Studies in the Glossators of the Roman Law: Newly Discovered Writings of the Twelfth Century
- Some Reflections on Jurisprudence''
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