Bezhentsev A.A. Roman Law: The “Eighth Wonder” of Legal Reality
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2025.4.13
Alexander A. Bezhentsev, Candidate Sciences (Jurisprudence), Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Law, North-West Institute of Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Prosp. Sredny V. O., 57/43, 199178 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9909-9869
Introduction: an important element of substantiating the relevance of the scientific study of Roman law as a phenomenon of legal reality is that it opens up the prospects for building new models of philosophical and legal studies of law in a real cultural and historical context. This scientific problem is important because Russian social science and legal thought for a long time have not sufficiently taken into account the achievements of world humanities and romanticism, and also been biased by ideological attitudes. The purpose of the scientific work is a philosophical and legal conceptualization of Roman law as a phenomenon of legal reality. The main scientific methods that have made it possible to realize the goal formulated in the study are: dialectical, concrete-historical, cultural-linguistic, logical-semantic, modeling, systemic-structural, comparative law, formal-legal. Results: the presented material is a comprehensive philosophical and legal study of Roman law, a cultural and anthropological approach of scientific research is proposed, suggesting its consideration not only as a legal phenomenon, but also as a socio-cultural phenomenon. The publication focuses on the fact that Roman law should be considered not only as a phenomenon of spiritual culture, but also as a picture of a specific historical culture and civilization, which leads to the variability of this historical type of law and the diversity of its socio-cultural reality. Conclusions: the scientific paper reflects the issue of the legal technology of the ancient Romans, as an organized process of creating law, which embodied the basic philosophical attitudes of the Quirites.
Key words: Roman law, Ancient Rome, Roman Empire, Quirite, civil status, human rights, human freedoms, legal culture, legal awareness.
Citation. Bezhentsev A.A. Roman Law: The “Eighth Wonder” of Legal Reality. Legal Concept = Pravovaya paradigma, 2025, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 99-110. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/lc.jvolsu.2025.4.13
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