In this episode, we explore the project “The Making of Local Legal Cultures under Rome,” featuring an interview with Professor's Yair Furstenberg, from the Hebrew university in Jerusalem. The project examines how communities in the Greek East negotiated their legal identities amid Roman imperial authority, revealing that law was not a vacuum but a contested space where local customs and Roman practice interested. By integrating early rabbinic literature as a key source, the project sheds light on Jewish jurisprudence and its role in provincial law-making. Through a multi-dimensional analysis of various legal traditions, including legal papyrology and Roman law, the project aims to uncover how these local legal cultures expressed agency and self-determination, ultimately contributing to a richer understanding of cultural and political distinctions under Roman rule. Join us for an enlightening discussion on the complexities of law, identity, and power in antiquity.

In this episode, I interview Prof. McSweeney about his book, Priests of the Law.

Part of a two-part series on French legal history.

We talk about the classical basis for the administrative state generally and the U.S. administrative state specifically.The Many and the Few: On the American Lex Regia by Vermeule:https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4321671Marbury and the Administrative State by Monaghan: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1154&context=faculty_scholarshipJudicial Deference to Administrative Interpretations of Law by Scalia:https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol38/iss3/1/

The Formation of the Common Law with Professor John G.H. Hudson of St. Andrew's, Scotland

Professor Sellers and I dive into the Roman republican system with some comparisons to the American Republic and other modern legal systems. This is the first in a two-part series on Roman constitutionalism.

We discuss the specifics of Roman contract law. We also discuss how the Roman Jurists influenced Roman contract law.