Boudewijn Sirks

Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks (born September 14, 1947 in The Hague ), known as Boudewijn Sirks and as AJB Sirks , is a Dutch legal historian and papyrologist specializing in Roman law . He was Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University from 2006 to 2014 .

Career

Sirks studied law at the University of Leiden and later theology and philosophy at the University of Amsterdam , where he also received a Cum laude doctorate in law in 1984 .

Career

Sirk's first job was as a research assistant in philosophy in Amsterdam. In 1978 he gave the first lectures in legal history at the University of Utrecht , where he later rose to senior lecturer in "Legal Techniques". At the same time he was working on his doctoral thesis at the University of Amsterdam. He returned there in 1989 as a reader and acting professor of legal techniques.

In 1997 Sirks became Professor of Ancient Legal History, European History of Private Law and Civil Law in the Faculty of Law at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. He taught in Frankfurt until 2006.

In December 2005, Elizabeth II of England appointed him Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford with effect from February 1, 2006 . At the same time he was elected a Fellow at All Souls College . The appointment was made public through the Prime Minister's Office.

The Queen has been pleased to approve that Professor AJB Sirks be appointed Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Oxford in succession to the late Professor Peter Birks. The appointment will take effect from February 1, 2006.	“ The Queen has the pleasure to announce the appointment of Professor AJB Sirks as Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University to succeed the late Professor Peter Birks . The order is valid from February 1, 2006. "

Sirks also held visiting professorships at Columbia University in New York , the University of Kansas , served on the editorial board of the Journal of Legal History, and taught the Roman Law Group in Edinburgh, founded by his predecessor Peter Birks.

He is a member of the Studia Amstelodamensia .

Research interests

Sirks is interested in Roman law and English civil law, European private law and European colonial law. He is also a recognized papyrologist.

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Professor Sirk's research interests range from private law , particularly European private law, to ancient legal history and papyrology. He has published work in various areas of jurisprudence on legislation, papyrology, antiquity, including early Roman legal history, subjects of private and administrative law and public law of the later Roman Empire, the adoption of Roman law in Europe and the Dutch East Indies . Sirks is co-author of the standard edition of the Pommersfelden papyri .

His Food for Rome: the Legal Structure of the Transportation and Processing of Supplies for the Imperial Distributions in Rome and Constantinople (1991) further developed the basic theory of his doctoral thesis. After the death of the Dutch papyrologist Pieter Johannes Sijpesteijn, Sirks worked together with KA Worp on the collection of previously unpublished papyri from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times in memory of the broad area of ​​interest of Sijpesteijn.

Honors

In 2014, a commemorative publication ( Inter cives necnon peregrinos: Essays in honor of Boudewijn Sirks ) with contributions from 51 colleagues was published in honor of Boudewijn Sirks . At his farewell lecture, Sirks was made a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion . The honor was given by the Dutch Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Laetitia van den Assum .

Selected publications

• with HMA Jansen, Johannes B. Opschoor: Verkeerslawaai in Nederland. Coutinho, January 1977, ISBN 90-6283-504-X .
• Sulpicius Severus' Letter to Salvius. In: Bolletino dell'Istituto di Diritto romano. 85: 143-170 (1982).
• Food for Rome: the Legal Structure of the Transportation and Processing of Supplies for the Imperial Distributions in Rome and Constantinople. Gieben, Amsterdam 1991, ISBN 90-5063-069-3
• Summaria antiqua Codicis Theodosiani. New edition, with notes In: P. Krüger: Codicis Theodosiani fragmenta Taurinensia. Amsterdam 1996.
• The editing and compilation of the code. In: I. Wood, Jill Harries: The Theodosian Code: Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity. 1996.
• Shifting Frontiers in the Law: Romans, Provincials, and Barbarians. In: Ralph Mathisen, Hagith Sivan (Eds.): Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity. Aldershot, 1996.
• with PJ Sijpesteijn, KA Worp (ed.): An early Byzantine scenario for the change of office in the sitonie: the Greek papyri from Pommersfelden (PPG) with an appendix about the Pommersfelden digest fragments and the tradition of the digests. Beck, Munich 1996.
• The Epistula ad Salvium, appended to a letter of Sulpicius Severus to Paulinus: Observations on a recent analysis by C. Lepelley. In: Subseciva Groningana. Vol. VI, (1999) 75
• Saving Souls through Adoption: Legal Adaptation in the Dutch East Indies. In: John W. Cairns, OF Robinson: Critical Studies in Ancient Law, Comparative Law and Legal History. Hart Publishing, 2001, ISBN 1-84113-157-1 , pp. 365-379.
• Sailing in the Off-Season with Reduced Financial Risk. and Some Reflections. In: J.-J. Aubert, AJB Sirks (Ed.): Speculum Iuris, Roman Law as a Reflection of Social and Economic Life in Antiquity. The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2002
• The nomination for the municipal offices in the Roman Empire. In: A. Cordes, J. Rückert, R. Schulze (eds.): City - community - cooperative: Festschrift for Gerhard Dilcher on his 70th birthday. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-503-06163-0
• with KA Worp (Ed.): Papyri in Memory of PJ Sijpesteijn. (= American Studies in Papyrology 40). American Society for Papyrologists, Oakville CT 2004, ISBN 0-9700591-0-8
• The purpose of the Senatus Consultum Claudianum from 52 AD. In: Journal of the Savigny Foundation for Legal History, Romance Department. 122 (2005), ISSN  0323-4096 , pp. 138-149.
• The food distributions in Rome and Constantinople: Imperial power and continuity. In: Anne Kolb: Power structures and power practice: Concepts, principles and strategies of administration in the Roman Empire. Akademie Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-05-004149-8 .
• The Theodosian Code, a Study. Editions du Quatorze, 2007, ISBN 978-3-00-022777-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Album Academicum : Register information on AJB Sirks on the website of the University of Amsterdam; Retrieved April 10, 2014.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Professor Boudewijn Sirks' curriculum vitae on the All Souls College website at the University of Oxford; Retrieved March 25, 2015.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} website of the University of Oxford, Boudewijn Sirks ( Memento from April 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Regius Professor of Civil Law; Retrieved April 10, 2014.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Press release on the appointment of Sirks on the website www.competition-low.ox.ac.uk; Retrieved February 25, 2008.
5. ^ ^{A b} Regius Chair in Civil Law - University of Oxford , press release of the English Prime Minister of December 1, 2005; Retrieved April 11, 2014.
6. ^ Edinburgh Roman Law Group ( Memento March 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the School of Law at the University of Edinburgh ; Retrieved April 11, 2014.
7. ^ ^{A b} Review by Bruce W. Frier of Food for Rome Food for Rome: The Legal Structure of the Transportation and Processing of Supplies for the Imperial Distributions in Rome and Constantinople by Boudewign Sirks , review in The American Historical Review. Vol. 97, no. 5 (Dec. 1992), pp. 1496-1497.
8. ↑ Announcement for papyri to be published in Memory of PJ Sijpesteijn , edited by AJB Sirks and KA Worp, on papyrology.blogspot.com; Retrieved April 15, 2014.
9. ^ Legal History at Glasgow, Sirks Festschrift ; Retrieved March 25, 2015.
10. ^ ^{A b} Law News of July 9, 2014, Professor Sirks' Valedictory Lecture ( Memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) ; Retrieved March 25, 2015.
11. ↑ ^{a b} Works by Adriaan Johan Boudewijn Sirks on allbookstores.com; Retrieved April 15, 2004.
12. ↑ Summarized by RD Tanner: "... regarding Letter VI, AJB Sirks has made a firm defense of authenticity based on the juridical details which fit the era of Severus" (... regarding Buchsgabe VI, AJB Sirks has the authenticity on the basis defended by details fitting into the era of Servucs.) in RD Tanner; The Spurious Letters of Sulpicius Severus In: Studia Patristica Vol XXVIII, Leuven, Peeters, 1993, p. 114.
13. ↑ ^{a b c} Bodleian Law Library: Boudewijn Sirks
14. ↑ The origins of the work "Food for Rome" are based on a doctoral thesis at the University of Amsterdam. The thesis examines the transport and handling of food for imperial distribution in Rome and Constantinople, as well as the dispositions for their distribution.
15. ↑ Summary: Originally officials were elected in Rome. From the second century onwards, a candidate was nominated and could appeal to the authorities before being nominated. Opinions differ about the procedure and the meaning. It has been suggested that this change came about due to the economic situation and a lack of interest in city management. Sirks adds that either a committee or the outgoing officer nominated the candidates, inviting the candidate to object to the appointment before the decision became final. As a cause, he takes the opinion that the city leaders wanted to limit these offices to their own descendants.
16. ↑ Summary: The Senatus Consultum Claudianum of 52 AD sanctioned the cohabitation of a free woman with a slave with the enslavement of the woman and all children born from this connection by the slave's owner if the woman did not leave the slave after a formal admonition. This has been interpreted as punishing women, preventing unequal connections, protecting property and increasing the number of slaves. These statements show shortcomings and an analysis by Pauli Sententiae 2, 21a, 6-11, dealing with the application of the Senatus Consultum , shows that the real purpose was to protect the authority of the slave owner over his slaves, and the law only if so desired the slave owner was forced.