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14 Roman Legal Trad. 1 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/rltrad14 and id is 1 raw text is: The Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America: The Lost Years Timothy Kearley* Abstract - The Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America was the preeminent source of intellectual support for Romanists in the United States during the middle of the twentieth century (1930-1956). It was named in honor of the great Italian Romanist Salvatore Riccobono, who was a visiting professor at the Catholic University of America (CUA) in 1929. His lectures at the CUA inspired American Romanists to create an organization that would foster the study and teaching of Roman law in the United States following his departure. In the course of the Seminar's existence, many of the era's greatest Roman law scholars, both foreign and domestic, gave presentations at the Riccobono Seminar. The history of the Seminar after it came under the aegis of the CUA in 1935 has been readily available, but that is not the case for the years 1930-1935, when it moved among several law schools in the District of Columbia. This paper uses archival information and newspaper sources to describe the Seminar's activities in those lost years. I. Introduction Many readers of this journal are aware of the Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in America due to Salvo Randazzo's extensive description of that organization in Roman Legal Tradition's first issue.' As Randazzo indicated in that article, by 1937-1938 the Riccobono Seminar was known all over the world.2 Among the Roman law luminaries who gave papers before this Roman law research and discussion body during the two-and-a-half decades of its existence (1930-1956) were: H. F. Jolowicz, Stephen Kuttner, Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Wyoming. 1 S. Randazzo, Roman Legal Tradition and American Law. The Riccobono Seminar of Roman Law in Washington, RLT, 1 (2002), 123. 2 Id., 137. Roman Legal Tradition, 14 (2018), 1-13. ISSN 1943-6483. Published by the Ames Foundation at the Harvard Law School and the Alan Rodger Endowment at the University of Glasgow. This work may be reproduced and distributed for all non-commercial purposes. Copyright © 2018 by Timothy Kearley. All rights reserved apart from those granted above. ROMANLEGALTRADITION.ORG

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