Peter Candy

Email

pc649@cam.ac.uk

University Assistant Professor in Civil Law; Access Officer

Interests

My research interests include Roman legal and economic history, with a focus on the relationship between economic development and legal change during the Roman Republican and Classical periods. I have published work on Roman law, maritime law and long-distance trade in the ancient world.

Research centres and interest groups

Cambridge Private Law Centre (CPLC)

CV / Biography

I completed my PhD on the historical development of Roman maritime law at the University of Edinburgh in 2019. From 2019-21 I was Sir John Baker College Lecturer and Fellow in Law at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 2021-22 I joined the law faculty at Edinburgh University as an Early Career Fellow in Roman Law and European Legal History. In 2022 I was appointed Assistant Professor in Civil Law at the University of Cambridge and elected to a fellowship at St Catharine's College.

Selected publications

Books

Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts, 2025)

Link:

https://press.umich.edu/Books/A/Ancient-Maritime-Loan-Contracts2

ISBN 13:

9780472133550

Published Jan 2025

Roman Law and Maritime Commerce (ed), 2024)

Co-editor(s):

Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz

Link:

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-roman-law-and-maritime-commerce.html

ISBN:

9781474478144

Published Feb 2024

Articles

"What was the actio oneris aversi?" CLJ 84(1) (2025): 1-25

Citation:

CLJ 84(1) (2025): 1-25

Link:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-law-journal/article/what-was-the-actio-oneris-aversi/48393443CF068C4FAEED3BF0D748F699?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_source=bookmark

DOI:

10.1017/S0008197325000054

Published: Jan 2025

"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Water in the Roman World" Water History 15(1) 2023: 1-10

Co-Author/s:

Marguerite Ronin

Citation:

Water History 15(1) 2023: 1-10

Link:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12685-023-00318-1

DOI:

10.1007/s12685-023-00318-1

Published: Mar 2023

"'Judging Beyond the Sandal': The Use of Rhetoric in D.19.2.31 (Alf. 5 dig. a Paulo epit.)" Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Romanistische Abteilung 138 (2021): 310-337

Citation:

Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Romanistische Abteilung 138 (2021): 310-337

Link:

https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/zrgr-2021-0007/html?lang=de

DOI:

10.1515/zrgr-2021-0007

Published: Jun 2021

"Parallel Developments in Roman Law and Maritime Trade during the Late Republic and Early Principate" Journal of Roman Archaeology 33 (2020): 53-72

Citation:

Journal of Roman Archaeology 33 (2020): 53-72

Link:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/parallel-developments-in-roman-law-and-maritime-trade-during-the-late-republic-and-early-principate/E663CBBCE1C6EDCFF056A724C0F1DD3E?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=copy_link

DOI:

10.1017/S1047759420000914

Published: Oct 2020

Book Chapters

"Introduction: Roman Law and Maritime Commerce" (with Marguerite Ronin) in Peter Candy and Marguerite Ronin (ed(s)), Roman Law and Maritime Commerce, 2024), pp. 1-10

Pages:

1-10

Link

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-roman-law-and-maritime-commerce.html

Published Feb 2024

"Credit for Carriage: TPSulp. 78 and P. Oxy. XLV 3250" in Peter Candy and Marguerite Ronin (ed(s)), Roman Law and Maritime Commerce, 2024), pp. 171-186

Pages:

171-186

Link

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-roman-law-and-maritime-commerce.html

Published Feb 2024

"Limits of Juristic Argument in the Exercitorian Edict" in Joe Sampson and Ben Spagnolo (ed(s)), Principle and Pragmatism in Roman Law, 2020), pp. 143-158

Pages:

143-158

Link

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/principle-and-pragmatism-in-roman-law-9781509938957/

Published Nov 2020

Book Reviews

Trade, Institutions, and the Ancient Economy. Review of TERPSTRA, T. T. 2019. Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions. Princeton: Princeton University Press Journal of Roman Archaeology 35 (2022): 450-460

Link

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-archaeology/article/trade-institutions-and-the-ancient-economy-t-t-terpstra-2019-trade-in-the-ancient-mediterranean-private-order-and-public-institutions-princeton-nj-princeton-university-press-pp-x

DOI:

10.1017/S1047759421000799

Published Apr 2022

Thomas J McSweeney, PRIESTS OF THE LAW: ROMAN LAW AND THE MAKING OF THE COMMON LAW’S FIRST PROFESSIONALS ELR 25 (2021): 258-259

Link

https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/elr.2021.0704

DOI:

10.3366/elr.2021.0704

Published May 2021

Peter Candy

Email

University Assistant Professor in Civil Law; Access Officer

Interests

Research centres and interest groups

CV / Biography

Selected publications

Books

Ancient Maritime Loan Contracts, 2025)

Roman Law and Maritime Commerce (ed), 2024)

Articles

"What was the actio oneris aversi?" CLJ 84(1) (2025): 1-25

"Interdisciplinary Approaches to Water in the Roman World" Water History 15(1) 2023: 1-10

"'Judging Beyond the Sandal': The Use of Rhetoric in D.19.2.31 (Alf. 5 dig. a Paulo epit.)" Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte. Romanistische Abteilung 138 (2021): 310-337

"Parallel Developments in Roman Law and Maritime Trade during the Late Republic and Early Principate" Journal of Roman Archaeology 33 (2020): 53-72

Book Chapters

"Introduction: Roman Law and Maritime Commerce" (with Marguerite Ronin) in Peter Candy and Marguerite Ronin (ed(s)), Roman Law and Maritime Commerce, 2024), pp. 1-10

"Credit for Carriage: TPSulp. 78 and P. Oxy. XLV 3250" in Peter Candy and Marguerite Ronin (ed(s)), Roman Law and Maritime Commerce, 2024), pp. 171-186

"Limits of Juristic Argument in the Exercitorian Edict" in Joe Sampson and Ben Spagnolo (ed(s)), Principle and Pragmatism in Roman Law, 2020), pp. 143-158

Book Reviews

Trade, Institutions, and the Ancient Economy. Review of TERPSTRA, T. T. 2019. Trade in the Ancient Mediterranean: Private Order and Public Institutions. Princeton: Princeton University Press Journal of Roman Archaeology 35 (2022): 450-460

Thomas J McSweeney, PRIESTS OF THE LAW: ROMAN LAW AND THE MAKING OF THE COMMON LAW’S FIRST PROFESSIONALS ELR 25 (2021): 258-259

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