William Warwick Buckland
{{Short description|British scholar of Roman law (1859–1946)}}
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William Warwick Buckland, FBA (11 June 1859 – 16 January 1946) was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945.{{cite ODNB |author1= Duff, P. W. |author2= Wilfrid E. Rumble |author1-link = P. W. Duff |title=Buckland, William Warwick ((1859–1946) |publisher= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url= https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/32156 |date= 23 September 2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/32156|accessdate= 12 December 2023}}
Life
William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos.{{acad|id=BKLT881WW|name=Buckland, William Warwick}} 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 (1922),Cf. [http://www.registry.ed.ac.uk/graduations/Honorary_Grads/Hons_1900_1949.htm The University of Edinburgh, Registry, Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh: 1900-1949] Harvard (1929),Cf. [http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/09.26/02-history.html Harvard University Gazette, This month in Harvard history (Sept. 25, 1929)] 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.David M. Walker, The Oxford Companion to Law, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980, p. 156.
He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
Works
- [http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/buckland/RomanLawSlavery.pdf The Roman Law of Slavery: The Conditions of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian] (Cambridge: University Press, 1908)
- Equity in Roman Law: Lectures Delivered in the University of London, at the Request of the Faculty of Laws (London: University of London Press, 1911)
- Elementary Principles of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1912)
- {{ cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/textbookofromanl00buckuoft |title= A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian |place= Cambridge |publisher= University Press |year= 1921 | via =Internet Archive}}
- A Manual of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1925)
- The Main Institutions of Roman Private Law (Cambridge: University Press, 1931)
- Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline (Cambridge: University Press, 1936) (with the collaboration of Arnold D. McNair)[http://www.stephankinsella.com/texts/buckland_roman.pdf Buckland, W.W., McNair, A.D., Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline, 2d ed., revised by Lawson, F.H., Cambridge: University Press, 1965] (portions)
- Studies in the Glossators of the Roman Law: Newly Discovered Writings of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge: University Press'', 1938) (edited and explained by Hermann F. Kantorowicz with the collaboration of W.W. Buckland)
- {{cite book |title= Some Reflections on Jurisprudence |place= Cambridge |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year= 1945 |isbn= 9780208014078 |url= https://archive.org/details/somereflectionso0000buck/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access=registration}}
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External links
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