Section of Roman Law

No tomorrow without yesterday - 1400 years of ancient foundations and 1400 years of further education to date

Portrait photo of Evelyn Höbenreich, Head of the Roman Law Department, in the inner courtyard of the main building ©Uni Graz/Radlinger — Evelyn Höbenreich persistently cultivates resistant research from antiquity to the modern age. Her networks connect Europe and the Americas, her project experience ranges from the Maghreb to Iraq. Photo: Uni Graz/Radlinger

Head of Section Evelyn Höbenreich

The origin of our idea of law lies in Rome. The development and spread of Roman legal culture was a centuries-long process with a global impact. As lawyers know, its instruments are a legacy from antiquity in terms of terminology, structure and content. Without the Corpus Iuris Civilis, compiled under Emperor Justinian and so named since humanism, there would be no private law systems as we take them for granted today. More generally, there would also be no legal discourse of the kind that characterizes our scholarship and practice. The members of the section stand for this proven tradition, but also continue the school of "Ancient Legal History" founded in Graz, which not only brings public-institutional law or the criminal law of the Romans into the focus of research. Publications from the Leda series.

MMag.a Dr.in Marlene Peinhopf

Mag. iur. Peter Jahn

Priv.-Doz.in Agnieszka Kacprzak