Professor Alan Watson died this week at the age of 85. Nobody comes to Roman law without reading his work, or goes away without its effects. And as a scholar you simply don’t commit yourself to anything without first seeing what Alan had to say. He was a rare figure in the field: the dissentient who makes a good case. His older contemporaries got to know him as a meticulous opponent of accepted opinion on the law of the republic. His contemporaries (and their descendants) will always know him as a defender of the uniqueness of the Roman law tradition.... continued

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First published: 11 November 2018

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