“Law, Economics, and Society: Purchase and Sale in Ancient Law” Workshop update
A workshop sponsored by the CHS This past April, Charles Bartlett and James Townshend, members of the Department of the Classics at Harvard University, convened a workshop entitled “Law, Economics, and Society: Purchase and Sale in Ancient Law.” The event included scholars from numerous universities across the United States and Europe, and addressed topics such as the origins of the Roman law of sale, the question of symbolic sale, the… Read more