{{Short description|British scholar of Roman law (1859–1946)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} thumb|right|Buckland in c1932. '''William Warwick Buckland''', FBA (11 June 1859 – 16 January 1946) was a scholar of Roman law, Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge from 1914 to 1945.<ref>{{cite ODNB |author1= Duff, P. W. |author2= Wilfrid E. Rumble |author1-link = P. W. Duff |title=Buckland, William Warwick ((1859–1946) |publisher= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |url= https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/32156 |date= 23 September 2004 |doi= 10.1093/ref:odnb/32156|accessdate= 12 December 2023}}</ref>
==Life== William Warwick Buckland was educated in France, at Hurstpierpoint College and the Crystal Palace School of Engineering. He entered Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge in 1881, graduating in 1884 with a first in the Law Tripos.<ref>{{acad|id=BKLT881WW|name=Buckland, William Warwick}}</ref> Elected a Fellow of Caius, he remained a Cambridge academic for the remainder of his life. In 1920 he became a Fellow of the British Academy. He received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Edinburgh (1922),<ref>Cf. [http://www.registry.ed.ac.uk/graduations/Honorary_Grads/Hons_1900_1949.htm The University of Edinburgh, Registry, ''Honorary Graduates of The University of Edinburgh: 1900-1949'']</ref> Harvard (1929),<ref>Cf. [http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/09.26/02-history.html Harvard University Gazette, ''This month in Harvard history (Sept. 25, 1929)'']</ref> Lyon, Louvain and Paris. Among his best-known works on Roman law is ''A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian'', which became a standard text.<ref>David M. Walker, ''The Oxford Companion to Law'', Oxford: ''Clarendon Press'', 1980, p. 156.</ref>
He is buried at the Parish of the Ascension Burial Ground in Cambridge.
==Works== *[http://socserv2.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/buckland/RomanLawSlavery.pdf ''The Roman Law of Slavery: The Conditions of the Slave in Private Law from Augustus to Justinian''] (Cambridge: ''University Press'', 1908) *''Equity in Roman Law: Lectures Delivered in the University of London, at the Request of the Faculty of Laws'' (London: ''University of London Press'', 1911) *''Elementary Principles of Roman Private Law'' (Cambridge: ''University Press'', 1912) * {{ cite book |url= https://archive.org/details/textbookofromanl00buckuoft |title= A Textbook of Roman Law from Augustus to Justinian |place= Cambridge |publisher= University Press |year= 1921 | via =Internet Archive}} *''A Manual of Roman Private Law'' (Cambridge: ''University Press'', 1925) *''The Main Institutions of Roman Private Law'' (Cambridge: ''University Press'', 1931) *''Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline'' (Cambridge: ''University Press'', 1936) (with the collaboration of Arnold D. McNair)<ref>[http://www.stephankinsella.com/texts/buckland_roman.pdf Buckland, W.W., McNair, A.D., ''Roman Law and Common Law: A Comparison in Outline'', 2d ed., revised by Lawson, F.H., Cambridge: ''University Press'', 1965] (portions)</ref> *''Studies in the Glossators of the Roman Law: Newly Discovered Writings of the Twelfth Century'' (Cambridge: University Press, 1938) (edited and explained by Hermann F. Kantorowicz with the collaboration of W.W. Buckland) * {{cite book |title= Some Reflections on Jurisprudence |place= Cambridge |publisher= Cambridge University Press |year= 1945 |isbn= 9780208014078 |url= https://archive.org/details/somereflectionso0000buck/page/n5/mode/2up?view=theater |url-access=registration}}
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