![handle is hein.journals/rltrad2 and id is 1 raw text is: Dedication: David Daube
This book of essays is dedicated to the memory of David Daube
(1909-1999), a scholar of Roman and biblical law. Three happy
events brought this book to life. The first was a lecture by Lord
Rodger of Earlsferry on Daube's life and work. The international
law firm of CMS Cameron McKenna had generously offered to
sponsor a series of annual law lectures at the University of Ab-
erdeen, each lecture dedicated to a jurist associated with the Uni-
versity. Lord Rodger's was the first to be given in the series, and
is presented in this book in the manner it was delivered.
The jurists who gathered for Lord Rodger's lecture parti-
cipated in a civil law colloquium on the following day: this was the
second happy event. Articles based on some of the papers given at
the colloquium are presented in this book.
The third happy event, simultaneous with the lecture and col-
loquium, was the announcement by Daube's family that they
wished his papers and books to go to the University of Aberdeen.
This gift means a great deal to the University and the community
of scholars who will use it. With this book we honor the Daube
family.
Daube was born in Freiburg-im-Breisgau in 1909. He com-
pleted a doctoral thesis at G6ttingen in 1932, but because he was
a Jew the degree was withheld from him. In 1933 he emigrated to
Britain and studied in Cambridge, which awarded him a PhD in
1935. He remained there as a lecturer. In 1951 he took up the
Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Aberdeen. In 1955 he
took up the Regius Chair of Civil Law at the University of Oxford.
In 1970 he emigrated to the United States and became a professor
of law at the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California
at Berkeley, where he taught until 1994. He died in 1999.
Bibliographies of Daube's work have appeared in various
sources. The most complete bibliography to date is titled David
Daube Bibliography, and was prepared for the meeting of the Bi-
blical Law Section of the Society for Biblical Literature in Denver,
Colorado, in November 2001. Other bibliographies may be found
in these works:
C. M. Carmichael (ed.), Essays on Law and Religion [The
Berkeley and Oxford Symposia in Honour of David
Daube] (Berkeley, 1993).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/rltrad2&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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