Bruce W. Frier

John and Tessa D'Arms Distinguished University Professor of
Classics and Roman Law
Member of University of Michigan Law School Faculty 1986-

Forthcoming

• Review of Law, Language, and Empire in the Roman Tradition, by C. Ando. Classical J. (Forthcoming).
• "Delict." In Cambridge Companion to Roman Law, edited by D. Johnston. Forthcoming.
• Review of A Casebook on Roman Property Law, by H. Hausmaninger and R. Gamauf, co-authors. J. Roman Archaeology (Forthcoming).

Books

• Co-author. The Modern Law of Contracts. 3rd ed. J. J. White, co-author. St. Paul: West, 2012.
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• Co-author. The Modern Law of Contracts. 2d ed. J. White, co-author. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn.: Thomson/West, 2008.
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• Co-author. The Modern Law of Contracts. J. J. White, co-author. American Casebook Series. St. Paul, Minn: Thomson/West, 2005.
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• Co-author. A Casebook on Roman Family Law. T. A. J. McGinn, co-author. Classical Resources Series, 5. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004.
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• Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition. Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, 27. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1999.
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• Co-author. The Census Register P.Oxy. 984: The Reverse of Pindar's Paeans. R. S. Bagnall and I. C. Rutherford, co-authors. Papyrologica Bruxellensia, 29. Brussels: Fondation Egyptologique Reine Elisabeth, 1997.
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• Co-author. The Demography of Roman Egypt. R. S. Bagnall, co-author. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1994.
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• A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1989.
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• The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's pro Caecina. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1985. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome. New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Press, 1980. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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Book Chapters

• "Finding a Place for Law in the High Roman Empire: Tacitus, Dialogus 39.1-4." In Spaces of Justice in the Roman World, edited by F. de Angelis, 67-87. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, vol. 35. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2010.
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• "Law, Roman." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, vol. 1: 223-32. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
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• "Law and Economic Institutions." In The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, edited by W. Scheidel, I. Morris, and R. Saller, 113-43. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007.
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• "Tenants and Tenancy." In The Cambridge Guide to Classical Civilization, edited by G. Shipley et al., 868. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
• "Marriage and Motherhood in Roman Egypt." In Ten Years of the Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Lectures at Bryn Mawr College, edited by S. B. Farris and L. E. Lundeen, 1-31. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr Commentaries, 2006.
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• "Law: Roman Law." In The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, edited by G. Shipley et al., 504-6. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.
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• "John D'Arms the Scholar." In Ostia, Cicero, Gamala, Feasts, & the Economy: Papers in Memory of John H. D'Arms, edited by A. Gallina Zevi and J. H. Humphrey, 8. Journal of Roman Archaeology. Supplementary Series, 57. Portsmouth, R.I.: 2004.
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• "More Is Worse: Some Observations on the Population of the Roman Empire." In Debating Roman Demography, edited by W. Scheidel, 139-59. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2001.
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• "Demography." In The Cambridge Ancient History. 2nd ed., edited by A.K.Bowman et al., vol. 11, 787-816. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2000.
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• "Roman Demography." In Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire, edited by D. S. Potter and D. J. Mattingly, 85-109. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1999.
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• "Status, Legal and Social: Roman." In The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, edited by S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, 688-9. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998.
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• "Status, Legal and Social: Roman." In Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed., edited by S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, 1441-2. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996.
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• "Law, Roman, Sociology of." In The Oxford Classical Dictionary. 3rd ed., edited by S. Hornblower and A. Spawforth, 823-5. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1996.
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• "Interest and Usury in the Greco-Roman Period." In The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 3. New York: Doubleday, 1992.
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• "Tenant Remedies for Unsuitable Conditions Arising After Entry: A Roman Law Perspective on Modern American Common Law." In Studies in Roman Law in Memory of A. Arthur Schiller, edited by R. S. Bagnall and W. V. Harris, 65-80. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1986.
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• Co-author. "Roman Coins From the River Liri." A.Parker, co-author. In The Numismatic Chronicle, by The Royal Numismatic Society, London; edited by R.A.G.Carson, 89-109. Seventh Series, Volume X. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1970. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)

Journal Articles

• "Linking the Visions." Law Quad. Notes 43, no. 3 (2000): 8-9.
• "Frier on Reiner on Frier on Reiner." Bryn Mawr Classical Rev. 2000.12.11 (2000).
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• "Natural Fertility and Family Limitation in Roman Marriage." Classical Philology 89, no. 4 (1994): 318-33.
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• "Subsistence Annuities and Per Capita Income in the Early Roman Empire." Classical Philology 88 (1993): 222-30.
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• "Law, Economics, and Disasters Down on the Farm: Remissio Mercedis Revisited." Bullettino dell'Istituto di diritto romano 31/32 (1993): 237-70.
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• "Interpreting Codes." Mich. L. Rev. 89 (1991): 2201-14.
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• "Autonomy of Law and the Origins of the Legal Profession." Cardozo L. Rev. 11 (1989): 259-86.
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• "Prototypical Causation in Roman Law." Loy. L. Rev. 34 (1988): 485-516.
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Reviews

• Review of Adoption in the Roman World, by H. Lindsay. Bryn Mawr Classical Rev. (2010).
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• Co-author. "Mentalités and Private Economic Decision-Making." A. Conison, co-author. Review of Mentalités et Choix Économiques des Romains, by J.Andreau et al., co-authors. J. Roman Archaeology 22, no. 2 (2009): 511-14.
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• Review of Demography and Roman Society, by T. G. Parkin. Bryn Mawr Classical Rev. (2003).
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• Review of Prolegomena: Corpus der Römischen Rechtsquellen zur Antiken Sklaverei (CRRS), by J. M. Rainer, and Teil I (CRRS): Die Begründung des Sklavenstatus nach Ius Gentium und Ius Civile, by H. Wieling. Bryn Mawr Classical Rev. (2000).
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• Review of Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity, by C. A. Williams. Bryn Mawr Classical Rev. (1999).
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• Review of Le patronat judiciaire au dernier siècle de la république romaine, by J. M. David. Classical Philology 89, no. 3 (1994): 290-3.
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• Review of Judicial Reform and Land Reform in the Roman Republic: A New Edition, with Translation and Commentary, of the Laws from Urbino, by A. W. Lintott. J. Roman Stud. 84 (1994): 211-2.
• Review of Trials in the Late Roman Republic, by M. C. Alexander. Phoenix 47 (1993): 79-81.
• Review of Roman Marriage, by S. Treggiari. Classical Philology 88, no. 1 (1993): 94-8.
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• Review of Bau- und nachbarrechtliche Bestimmungen im klassischen römischen Recht, by J. M. Rainer. Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 61 (1993): 124-5.
• Review of Structure and Scale in the Roman Economy, by R. Duncan-Jones. J. Roman Archaeology 5 (1992): 286-90.
• Review of Römishe Rechtsgeschichte Quellenkunde, Rechtsbildung, Jurisprudenz und Rechtsliteratur, vol. 1, by F. Wieacker. J. Roman Stud. 82 (1992): 231-2.
• Review of Nomos: Essays in Athenian Law, Politics and Society, by P. Cartledge et al., editors. Am. J. Legal Hist. 36 (1992): 388-90.
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• Review of Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome, by B. Rawson, editor. Choice (1992): 516.
• Review of Food for Rome: The Legal Structure of the Transportation and Processing of Supplies for the Imperial Distributions in Rome and Constantinople, by B. Sirks. Am. Hist. Rev. 97 (1992): 1496.
• Review of Anthropology and Roman Culture, by M. Bettini. Choice (1992): 497.
• Review of The Human Measure: Social Thought in the Western Legal Tradition, by D. R. Kelley. Am. Hist. Rev. 96 (1991): 1503-4.
• Review of The Economy and Society of Pompeii, by W. Jongman. J. Roman Archaeology 4 (1991): 243-8.
• Review of Patricians and Plebians: The Origin of the Roman State, by R. E. Mitchell. Choice 28 (1991): 1547.
• Review of Caligula: Emperor of Rome, by A. Ferrill. Choice 29 (1991): 502.
• Review of Rhetoric in Classical Historiography, by A. J. Woodman. Am. Hist. Rev. 95 (1990): 461-2.
• Review of Le vin de l'Italie romaine, by A. Tchernia, and The Archaeology of the Roman Eocnomy, by K. Greene. Am. J. Archaeology 93, no. 1 (1989): 153-4.
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• Review of The Institutes of Gaius, by W. M. Gordon and O. F. Robinson. Choice 26 (1988): 306.
• Review of Roman Slave Law, by A. Watson. Am. Hist. Rev. 93 (1988): 1026-7.
• Review of Lawyers in Roman Transitional Politics: A Study of the Roman Jurists in Their Political Setting in the Late Republic and Triumvirate, by R. A. Bauman. Classical Philology 83, no. 1 (1988): 76-9.
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• Review of Giuristi e sapienti in Roma arcaica, by F. D'Ippolito. Gnomon 60 (1988): 1026-7.
• Review of Causa Mortis: Auf den Spuren einer Redewendung, by D. Nörr. Am. J. Philology 109, no. 4 (1988): 618-21.
• Review of Rome in the Late Republic, by M. Beard and M. Crawford. Am. Hist. Rev. 92 (1987): 109-10.
• "Why Law Changes." Review of The Evolution of Law, by A. Watson. Colum. L. Rev. 86 (1986): 888-900.
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• Review of Lawyers in Roman Republican Politics, a Study of the Roman Jurists in Their Political Setting, 316–82 B.C, by R. A. Bauman. Classical Philology 81, no. 3 (1986): 257-62.
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• "Law on the Installment Plan." Review of Ulpian, by T.Honoré. Mich. L. Rev. 82 (1984): 856-62. (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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Other Publications

• "Law (Ius)." In The Virgil Encyclopedia, edited by R. Thomas and J. M. Ziolkowski. Chicester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
• "Making History Personal: Constantine Cavafy and the Rise of Rome." C. P. Cavafy Forum (2010).
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• "Law, Roman." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by M. Gagarin, vol. 4 (Hiipocratic Corpus - Mosaics): 223-32. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.
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• Preface to The Rise of the Roman Jurists: Studies in Cicero's pro Caecina, by B.W.Frier, xi-xvii. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, (1985). (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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• Preface to Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome, by B.W.Frier, xvii-xxiii. New Jersey: Princeton Univ. Press, (1980). (Work published when author not on Michigan Law faculty.)
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