Educational resources
Roman Law
Romal Legal Tradition and the Compilation of Justinian
Future modules forthcoming in 2007–2008.
News and Events
August 2007: A new teaching module on Roman Law developed by the Robbins Collection is now up on our website and available as an educational resource for teachers and students. This is the first in a planned series of modules on diverse areas of law and legal history, developed with K-12 secondary teachers and students in mind but accessible to anyone in search of introductory material on law and legal traditions. Available both online and as a downloadable PDF, the unit offers an introduction to the history and concepts of Roman law as well as a glossary, selected bibliography, and examples of primary source material from our collection.
January 2005: The Robbins Collection co-sponsored a working group for K–12 teachers with UC's Office of Resources for International and Area Studies (ORIAS), the Bay Area Global Education Program (BAGEP) at the World Affairs Council of Northern California. This year's ORIAS working group series was entitled Constructing Identities: Comparative Short Fiction From the Arab World, East Asia and Western Europe, and as part of this series, Julianne Gilland (Robbins Collection) and Michele Delattre (ORIAS) organized a one-day workshop at Boalt Hall in January. The workshop focused on the Martin Guerre trial, a 16th-century case of identity theft in France that has inspired plays, fiction, films and legal commentaries for over 500 years. In a special session at the Robbins Collection, Bay Area K-12 teachers participated in a one-day meeting to discuss the case and the issues of law, identity, and community that it brought together, using Natalie Zemon Davis's historical reconstruction, The Return of Martin Guerre. During the session, the group also had an opportunity to see an original edition of Judge Jean de Coras's legal commentary on the trial and examine other relevant 17th-century legal texts from the Robbins Collection's holdings. The event was a great opportunity for the teachers to get some hands-on experience with using archival documents in a classroom setting and to think in new ways about how we and our students consider the role of law in our society.
