Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-187) and index.
Foreword / Linda Jones Hall -- The classics and Roman law in the Colonial and Early National eras -- Samuel Parsons Scott, the classics, and Roman law in the Antebellum Era -- Fred H. Blume, fellow-Romanists, the classics, and Roman law in the Gilded Age -- Roman law in early twentieth-century America -- Charles Sumner Lobingier and Charles Phineas Sherman : careers, scholarship, and translations -- Samuel P. Scott, Fred H. Blume, and Clyde Pharr : careers, scholarship, and translations -- The denouement : Justinian's Code in twenty-first-century America