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Pacta successoria in Roman and contemporary law: observations in the margin of M.F. Merotto’s recent book. – The work I patti successori dispositivi nel diritto romano is the most recent publication tackling the problem of contractual succession according to Roman law. In the book’s introduction, Maria Federica Merotto responds to the voices calling for a more nuanced study of this phenomenon. Despite numerous exciting thoughts, the study displays shortcommings. The vast discrepancy between the declared methodological attitude and the actual course of the textual exegesis serves as a starting point for a more profound reflection on the shadow that modern legal concepts cast onto the ancient texts and the narrowness of traditional corpus of sources in conventional Roman law research.
"Warschauer Schriften zu römischem Recht und europäischer Rechtstradition" (WSRR) is the series of publications of the Chair of European Legal Tradition of the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University with the cooperation of an international scientific advisory board. The series includes contributions on issues of Roman law and its history in antiquity, as well as its impact on the European legal tradition. It is open to all methods, approaches and issues of these disciplines. In order to include the most important centers of the Roman and European legal tradition, publications in French, Italian, and Spanish are permitted in addition to German and English. The series aims to contribute to a pan-European conversation about the discipline.