Professor Ernest Metzger

  • Professor - Douglas Chair in Civil Law (School of Law)

telephone: 01413306380
email: Ernest.Metzger@glasgow.ac.uk

University of Glasgow, 8 The Square, Glasgow, G12 8qq

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816

Biography

[For further details, please visit Legal History at Glasgow.]

Professor Metzger joined the School of Law in the autumn of 2006. Formerly he was Professor of Civil and Comparative Law at the University of Aberdeen. His principal areas of research are Roman and civil law, and in particular the law of procedure.

In the United States he served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and the Texas Court of Appeals. He is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas.

He is the author of A New Outline of the Roman Civil Trial (1997) and Litigation in Roman Law (2005), both from the Oxford University Press, and editor of A Companion to Justinian's Institutes (Bristol U.P & Cornell U.P., 1998); Law for All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube (Roman Law Society of America, 2004); and David Daube: A Centenary Celebration (Traditio iuris romani, 2010). He also prepared a revised edition of Barry Nicholas' Introduction to Roman Law in 2008, and prepared, with Dr Karen Baston, a catalogue of The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, in 2012. His articles and reviews have appeared in Classical Review; Edinburgh Law Review; Irish Jurist; IVRA: Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Romano e Antico; Journal of Legal History; Journal of Roman Studies; Law and History Review; Loyola Law Review; Revue Internationale des Droits de l'Antiquité; Roman Legal Tradition; Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris; Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis; Zeitschrift für Papyrologik und Epigraphik; and Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte.

He is Editor-in-Chief of Roman Legal Tradition, a journal devoted to the civil law tradition in the ancient, medieval, and modern law. He is also creator and editor of IusCivile.com, an internet portal for Roman law. He serves on the council of the Scottish Universities Law Institute, representing the University of Glasgow, and on the council of the Stair Society, a charity dedicated to Scottish legal history. He manages the imprint Traditio Iuris Romani. He is preparing An Introduction to Roman Civil Procedure for the Oxford University Press.

Selected blog posts

  • Seminar in memory of Dieter Nörr, February 2019
  • Alan Watson (1933 - 2018)
  • Brett Kavanaugh and Sourdough Starter
  • The shooting in Santa Fe, Texas
  • The Alan Rodger Endowment
  • Vladimir Nabokov commits stillicide
  • Roman law congress in Naples

Research interests

Research Interests

Roman law.  Roman civil procedure. Scottish Enlightenment.

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Publications

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2024

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2024) Thomas Muir's Advocates' Thesis on Slavery. In: Godfrey, A. M. (ed.) Miscellany Nine. The Stair Society: Edinburgh, pp. 167-195. (doi: 10.36098/stairsoc/misc9.5)

2023

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2023) Formularprozess: Verfahrenseinleitung. In: Babusiaux, U., Baldus, C., Ernst, W., Meissel, F.-S., Platschek, J. and Rüfner, T. (eds.) Handbuch des römischen Privatrechts. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 350-371. ISBN 9783161523595

2021

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2021) Roman law. In: Kasai, Y. and Cazzato, V. (eds.) Koten no Chosen. Chisen Shokan: Tokyo. (Accepted for Publication)

2018

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2018) Edict ne quis eum qui in ius vocabitur vi eximat. Reference Entries on Roman Civil Procedure, (Unpublished)

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2018) Editio (actionis; instrumentorum; rationum). Reference Entries on Roman Civil Procedure, (Unpublished)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2018) Edict si neque potestatem. Reference Entries on Roman Civil Procedure, (Unpublished)

2017

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2017) Review: Cicero's Law. Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic. Roman Legal Tradition, 13, pp. 1-4. [Book Review]

2016

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2016) Republican civil procedure: sanctioning reluctant defendants. In: du Plessis, Paul J., Ando, Clifford and Tuori, Kaius (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 245-256. ISBN 9780198728689 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728689.013.19)

2015

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2015) Litigation. In: Johnston, David (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 272-298. ISBN 9780521895644 (doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139034401.018)

2014

Hallebeek, Jan, Schermaier, Martin, Fiori, Roberto, Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 and Coriat, Jean-Pierre (Eds.) (2014) Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Sirks. V&R Unipress: Goettingen. ISBN 9783847103028

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2014) Review of: Miriam Indra, 'Status quaestio. Studien zum Freiheitsprozess im klassischen römischen Recht'. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 131, [Book Review]

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2014) Cum servo agere. In: Hallebeek, J., Schermaier, M., Fiori, R., Metzger, E. and Coriat, J.-P. (eds.) Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Sirks. V&R Unipress: Goettingen, pp. 533-543. ISBN 9783847103028

2013

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2013) Agree to disagree: local jurisdiction in the lex irnitana. In: Burrows, A., Johnston, D. and Zimmermann, R. (eds.) Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 207-226. ISBN 9780199677344

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2013) An outline of Roman civil procedure. Roman Legal Tradition, 9, pp. 1-30.

2012

Baston, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Eds.) (2012) The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956642318

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Alan Ferguson Rodger (1944-2011). IVRA: Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Romano e Antico, 60, pp. 358-364.

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Alan Rodger's writings on Roman Law. In: Baston, K. and Metzger, E. (eds.) The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow, UK, pp. 189-198. ISBN 9780956642318

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Law and procedure, Rome: Civil procedure [additions and revisions to]. In: Hornblower, S., Spawforth, A. and Eidinow, E. (eds.) Oxford Classical Dictionary. 4th edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199567386

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Obligations in classical procedure. In: McGinn, T.A.J. (ed.) Obligations In Roman Law: Past, Present, And Future. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI., USA, pp. 158-173. ISBN 9780472118434

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Remedy of prohibition against Roman judges in civil trials. In: Brand, P. and Getzler, J. (eds.) Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law: From Antiquity to Modern Times. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 177-191. ISBN 9781107018976 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139093613.012)

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Review of: A.M. Riggsby, Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans. Journal of Roman Studies, 102, pp. 354-355. (doi: 10.1017/S0075435812000482)[Book Review]

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Vadimonium. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah13257)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Vindex. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah13258)

2010

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Ed.) (2010) David Daube: A Centenary Celebration. Traditio luris Romani: Glasgow, UK, p. 180. ISBN 9780956642301

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2010) Remarks on David Daube’s Lectures on Sale, with Special Attention to the liber homo and res extra commercium. In: Metzger, E (ed.) David Daube: A Centenary Celebration. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow, pp. 101-126. ISBN 9780956642301

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2010) Review of C. Anderson, Roman Law [2009]. Scots Law Times,

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2010) Adam Smith's historical jurisprudence and the 'method of the civilians'. Loyola Law Review, 56(1), pp. 1-31.

Metzger, E. (2010) Civil Procedure in Classical Rome: Having an audience with the magistrate. In: de Angelis, F. and Harris, W. (eds.) Spaces of Justice in the Roman World. Series: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition (35). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 27-41. ISBN 9789004189256

2009

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2009) Formula. In: Katz, S.N. (ed.) Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195134056

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2009) Lex Irnitana. In: Katz, Stanley N. (ed.) Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195134056

Metzger, E. (2009) Adam Smith’s historical jurisprudence and the "method of the civilians". In: Smith in Glasgow '09, Glasgow, UK, 31 March - 2 April 2009,

2008

Metzger, E. (2008) Obligations in classical procedure. In: The Future of Obligations, Rome, 12-14 March 2008,

Nicholas, B. and Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2008) Introduction to Roman Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 0198760639

2007

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2007) [Literatur: J. Platschek, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius, 2005]. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 124, pp. 669-671.

Metzger, E. (2007) Lawsuits in context. In: Cairns, J.W. and du Plessis, P. (eds.) Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 187-205. ISBN 9780748627936

Metzger, E. (2007) Remedy of prohibition against Roman judges in civil trials. In: Eighteenth British Legal History Conference, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 4-7 July 2007,

2006

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2006) Absent Parties and Bloody-Minded Judges. In: Burrows, A. and Rodger, A. (eds.) Mapping the Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 455-473. ISBN 978-0-19-920655-1

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2006) A Fragment of Ulpian on acceptilatio and intertium. Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris, 72,

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2006) Johannes Platschek, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius: Review. Roman Legal Tradition, 3, pp. 135-137.

Metzger, E. (2006) The buyer who wants to pay more. Roman Legal Tradition, 3, pp. 115-122.

2005

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2005) Litigation in Roman Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198298557

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2005) Review of: J. Powell and J. Paterson (eds.), Cicero the Advocate. Times Higher Education Supplement, 718, pp. 24-25.

Metzger, E. (2005) Clytaemnestra's watchman on the roof. Eranos, 103, pp. 38-47.

2004

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2004) A juristic festschrift: Review of: L. de Ligt, et al. (edd.), Viva Vox Iuris Romani. Classical Review, 54, pp. 526-527. (doi: 10.1093/cr/54.2.526)

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Ed.) (2004) Law for All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube. Series: Roman legal tradition. Roman Law Society of America: Lawrence, K.S., USA. ISBN 9780976414902

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2004) Entries on Roman and civil law. In: Garner, B.A. (ed.) Black's Law Dictionary. Thomson/West. ISBN 9780314151995

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2004) Review of: E. Meyer, Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World. Irish Jurist, 39, pp. 373-374.

Metzger, E. (2004) Acquisition of living things by specification. Edinburgh Law Review, 8(1), pp. 112-115. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2004.8.1.115)

Metzger, E. (2004) Adam Smith and Roman servitudes. Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis: Legal History Review, 72(3-4), pp. 327-357.

Metzger, E. (2004) Quare? Argument in David Daube, after Karl Popper. Roman Legal Tradition, 2, pp. 27-58.

Metzger, E. (2004) Postscript on nova species and Kinloch Dampf Ltd. v. Nordvic Salmon Farms Ltd. Roman Legal Tradition, 2, pp. 115-121.

Metzger, E. (2004) Roman judges, case law, and principles of procedure. Law and History Review, 22(2), pp. 243-275.

2003

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2003) Adam Smith, 'Theory of Moral Sentiments', K. Haakonssen (ed.): Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 7(2), pp. 260-262. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2003.7.2.260)[Book Review]

2002

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2002) Review of L. Fanizza, L'Amministrazione della giustizia nel principato. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 119(1), pp. 610-611. (doi: 10.7767/zrgra.2002.119.1.610)

2001

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2001) Review of G. Camodeca, Tabulae Pompeianae Sulpiciorum (TPSulp.): Edizione critica del archivio puteolano dei Sulpicii. Journal of Roman Studies, 91, pp. 234-236.

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2001) Gai Institutiones III 88-181. Die Kontraktsobligationen: Text und Kommentar: H.L.W. Nelson & U. Manthe: Book Review. Journal of Legal History, 22(3), pp. 89-90. [Book Review]

2000

Metzger, E. (2000) The case of Petronia Iusta. Revue Internationale des Droit de l'Antiquité (3rd series), 47, pp. 151-165.

Metzger, E. (2000) The current view of the extra-judicial vadimonium. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 117, pp. 133-178.

1998

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Ed.) (1998) A Companion to Justinian's Institutes. Duckworth: London, UK. ISBN 9780715627983

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1998) Review of M.H. Hoeflich, Roman and Civil Law and the Development of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century. Jurist Books-on-Law,

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1998) Interrupting proceedings in iure: vadimonium and intertium. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 120, pp. 215-225.

Metzger, E. (1998) Actions. In: Metzger, E. (ed.) A Companion to Justinian's Institutes. Duckworth/Cornell University Press, pp. 208-228. ISBN 0715627988

1997

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1997) A New Outline of the Roman Civil Trial. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198264743

1995

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1995) Review of: Lewis, A. and Ibbetson, D. (1994) 'The Roman Law Tradition'. Law Quarterly Review, 111, pp. 353-355. [Book Review]

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Articles

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2018) Edict ne quis eum qui in ius vocabitur vi eximat. Reference Entries on Roman Civil Procedure, (Unpublished)

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2018) Editio (actionis; instrumentorum; rationum). Reference Entries on Roman Civil Procedure, (Unpublished)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2018) Edict si neque potestatem. Reference Entries on Roman Civil Procedure, (Unpublished)

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2013) An outline of Roman civil procedure. Roman Legal Tradition, 9, pp. 1-30.

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Alan Ferguson Rodger (1944-2011). IVRA: Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Romano e Antico, 60, pp. 358-364.

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2010) Review of C. Anderson, Roman Law [2009]. Scots Law Times,

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2010) Adam Smith's historical jurisprudence and the 'method of the civilians'. Loyola Law Review, 56(1), pp. 1-31.

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2007) [Literatur: J. Platschek, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius, 2005]. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 124, pp. 669-671.

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2006) A Fragment of Ulpian on acceptilatio and intertium. Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris, 72,

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2006) Johannes Platschek, Studien zu Ciceros Rede für P. Quinctius: Review. Roman Legal Tradition, 3, pp. 135-137.

Metzger, E. (2006) The buyer who wants to pay more. Roman Legal Tradition, 3, pp. 115-122.

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2005) Review of: J. Powell and J. Paterson (eds.), Cicero the Advocate. Times Higher Education Supplement, 718, pp. 24-25.

Metzger, E. (2005) Clytaemnestra's watchman on the roof. Eranos, 103, pp. 38-47.

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2004) A juristic festschrift: Review of: L. de Ligt, et al. (edd.), Viva Vox Iuris Romani. Classical Review, 54, pp. 526-527. (doi: 10.1093/cr/54.2.526)

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2004) Review of: E. Meyer, Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World. Irish Jurist, 39, pp. 373-374.

Metzger, E. (2004) Acquisition of living things by specification. Edinburgh Law Review, 8(1), pp. 112-115. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2004.8.1.115)

Metzger, E. (2004) Adam Smith and Roman servitudes. Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis: Legal History Review, 72(3-4), pp. 327-357.

Metzger, E. (2004) Quare? Argument in David Daube, after Karl Popper. Roman Legal Tradition, 2, pp. 27-58.

Metzger, E. (2004) Postscript on nova species and Kinloch Dampf Ltd. v. Nordvic Salmon Farms Ltd. Roman Legal Tradition, 2, pp. 115-121.

Metzger, E. (2004) Roman judges, case law, and principles of procedure. Law and History Review, 22(2), pp. 243-275.

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2002) Review of L. Fanizza, L'Amministrazione della giustizia nel principato. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 119(1), pp. 610-611. (doi: 10.7767/zrgra.2002.119.1.610)

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2001) Review of G. Camodeca, Tabulae Pompeianae Sulpiciorum (TPSulp.): Edizione critica del archivio puteolano dei Sulpicii. Journal of Roman Studies, 91, pp. 234-236.

Metzger, E. (2000) The case of Petronia Iusta. Revue Internationale des Droit de l'Antiquité (3rd series), 47, pp. 151-165.

Metzger, E. (2000) The current view of the extra-judicial vadimonium. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 117, pp. 133-178.

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1998) Review of M.H. Hoeflich, Roman and Civil Law and the Development of Anglo-American Jurisprudence in the Nineteenth Century. Jurist Books-on-Law,

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1998) Interrupting proceedings in iure: vadimonium and intertium. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, 120, pp. 215-225.

Books

Nicholas, B. and Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2008) Introduction to Roman Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 0198760639

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2005) Litigation in Roman Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198298557

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1997) A New Outline of the Roman Civil Trial. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780198264743

Book Sections

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2024) Thomas Muir's Advocates' Thesis on Slavery. In: Godfrey, A. M. (ed.) Miscellany Nine. The Stair Society: Edinburgh, pp. 167-195. (doi: 10.36098/stairsoc/misc9.5)

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2023) Formularprozess: Verfahrenseinleitung. In: Babusiaux, U., Baldus, C., Ernst, W., Meissel, F.-S., Platschek, J. and Rüfner, T. (eds.) Handbuch des römischen Privatrechts. Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen, pp. 350-371. ISBN 9783161523595

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2021) Roman law. In: Kasai, Y. and Cazzato, V. (eds.) Koten no Chosen. Chisen Shokan: Tokyo. (Accepted for Publication)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2016) Republican civil procedure: sanctioning reluctant defendants. In: du Plessis, Paul J., Ando, Clifford and Tuori, Kaius (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society. Series: Oxford handbooks. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 245-256. ISBN 9780198728689 (doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198728689.013.19)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2015) Litigation. In: Johnston, David (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law. Series: Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 272-298. ISBN 9780521895644 (doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139034401.018)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2014) Cum servo agere. In: Hallebeek, J., Schermaier, M., Fiori, R., Metzger, E. and Coriat, J.-P. (eds.) Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Sirks. V&R Unipress: Goettingen, pp. 533-543. ISBN 9783847103028

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2013) Agree to disagree: local jurisdiction in the lex irnitana. In: Burrows, A., Johnston, D. and Zimmermann, R. (eds.) Judge and Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 207-226. ISBN 9780199677344

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Alan Rodger's writings on Roman Law. In: Baston, K. and Metzger, E. (eds.) The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow, UK, pp. 189-198. ISBN 9780956642318

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Law and procedure, Rome: Civil procedure [additions and revisions to]. In: Hornblower, S., Spawforth, A. and Eidinow, E. (eds.) Oxford Classical Dictionary. 4th edition. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199567386

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Obligations in classical procedure. In: McGinn, T.A.J. (ed.) Obligations In Roman Law: Past, Present, And Future. University of Michigan Press: Ann Arbor, MI., USA, pp. 158-173. ISBN 9780472118434

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Remedy of prohibition against Roman judges in civil trials. In: Brand, P. and Getzler, J. (eds.) Judges and Judging in the History of the Common Law: From Antiquity to Modern Times. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK, pp. 177-191. ISBN 9781107018976 (doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139093613.012)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Vadimonium. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah13257)

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Vindex. In: Bagnall, Roger S. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: Oxford. ISBN 9781405179355 (doi: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah13258)

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2010) Remarks on David Daube’s Lectures on Sale, with Special Attention to the liber homo and res extra commercium. In: Metzger, E (ed.) David Daube: A Centenary Celebration. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow, pp. 101-126. ISBN 9780956642301

Metzger, E. (2010) Civil Procedure in Classical Rome: Having an audience with the magistrate. In: de Angelis, F. and Harris, W. (eds.) Spaces of Justice in the Roman World. Series: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition (35). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 27-41. ISBN 9789004189256

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2009) Formula. In: Katz, S.N. (ed.) Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195134056

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2009) Lex Irnitana. In: Katz, Stanley N. (ed.) Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195134056

Metzger, E. (2007) Lawsuits in context. In: Cairns, J.W. and du Plessis, P. (eds.) Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 187-205. ISBN 9780748627936

Metzger, E ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2006) Absent Parties and Bloody-Minded Judges. In: Burrows, A. and Rodger, A. (eds.) Mapping the Law. Oxford University Press: Oxford, pp. 455-473. ISBN 978-0-19-920655-1

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2004) Entries on Roman and civil law. In: Garner, B.A. (ed.) Black's Law Dictionary. Thomson/West. ISBN 9780314151995

Metzger, E. (1998) Actions. In: Metzger, E. (ed.) A Companion to Justinian's Institutes. Duckworth/Cornell University Press, pp. 208-228. ISBN 0715627988

Book Reviews

Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2017) Review: Cicero's Law. Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic. Roman Legal Tradition, 13, pp. 1-4. [Book Review]

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2014) Review of: Miriam Indra, 'Status quaestio. Studien zum Freiheitsprozess im klassischen römischen Recht'. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte: Romanistische Abteilung, 131, [Book Review]

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2012) Review of: A.M. Riggsby, Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans. Journal of Roman Studies, 102, pp. 354-355. (doi: 10.1017/S0075435812000482)[Book Review]

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2003) Adam Smith, 'Theory of Moral Sentiments', K. Haakonssen (ed.): Review. Edinburgh Law Review, 7(2), pp. 260-262. (doi: 10.3366/elr.2003.7.2.260)[Book Review]

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (2001) Gai Institutiones III 88-181. Die Kontraktsobligationen: Text und Kommentar: H.L.W. Nelson & U. Manthe: Book Review. Journal of Legal History, 22(3), pp. 89-90. [Book Review]

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (1995) Review of: Lewis, A. and Ibbetson, D. (1994) 'The Roman Law Tradition'. Law Quarterly Review, 111, pp. 353-355. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Hallebeek, Jan, Schermaier, Martin, Fiori, Roberto, Metzger, Ernest ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 and Coriat, Jean-Pierre (Eds.) (2014) Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in Honour of Boudewijn Sirks. V&R Unipress: Goettingen. ISBN 9783847103028

Baston, K. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7116-5457 and Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Eds.) (2012) The Roman Law Library of Alan Ferguson Rodger, Lord Rodger of Earlsferry: With a Bibliography of his Works. Traditio Iuris Romani: Glasgow. ISBN 9780956642318

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Ed.) (2010) David Daube: A Centenary Celebration. Traditio luris Romani: Glasgow, UK, p. 180. ISBN 9780956642301

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Ed.) (2004) Law for All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube. Series: Roman legal tradition. Roman Law Society of America: Lawrence, K.S., USA. ISBN 9780976414902

Metzger, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8458-6816 (Ed.) (1998) A Companion to Justinian's Institutes. Duckworth: London, UK. ISBN 9780715627983

Conference Proceedings

Metzger, E. (2009) Adam Smith’s historical jurisprudence and the "method of the civilians". In: Smith in Glasgow '09, Glasgow, UK, 31 March - 2 April 2009,

Metzger, E. (2008) Obligations in classical procedure. In: The Future of Obligations, Rome, 12-14 March 2008,

Metzger, E. (2007) Remedy of prohibition against Roman judges in civil trials. In: Eighteenth British Legal History Conference, St Catherine's College, Oxford, 4-7 July 2007,

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Grants

2013

Law, Rhetoric and Science: Historical Narratives in Roman Law£3,000 was awarded to Prof Metzger by The Faculty of Advocates for a Conference on Legal History and Roman Law in Memory of Alan Rodger.

2012

£6,000 was awarded to Prof Metzger by The Clark Foundation for Legal Education for a Conference on Legal History and Roman Law in Memory of Alan Rodger.

£5,000 was awarded to Prof Metzger by The Chancellor's Fund for a Conference on Legal History and Roman Law in Memory of Alan Rodger.

£1,000 was awarded to Prof Metzger by The Scottish Universities Law Institute toward the cataloguing of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry's library.

£246 was awarded to Prof Metzger by The Stair Society towards the publication of a catalogue of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry's library.

£3,000 was awarded to Prof Metzger by The Faculty of Advocates for a Conference on Legal History and Roman Law in Memory of Alan Rodger.

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