Álvaro d'Ors

Álvaro d' Ors ( born April 14, 1915 in Barcelona, † January 31, 2004 in Pamplona ) was a Spanish jurist and classical philologist. He was a specialist in Roman Law and one of the leading historians of law in Spain.

Life and work

Álvaro d' Ors, the son of the philosopher and art critic Eugeni d' Ors and the sculptress Maria Pérez- Peix, grew up in Barcelona and in Madrid in 1920, where he attended the Instituto Escuela, an open, non-church school. He then studied law and classical philology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He wrote in both subjects theses, a philological about the comic poet Lucius Afranius and legal on the Constitutio Antoniniana ( 1941). So he blew a papyrological studies on Roman Law. At the suggestion of the lawyer José de Castillejo, he specialized in Roman Law. However, he also drove philological studies and written translations of the Latin sources of law and literature monuments.

In 1943 received d' Ors chair of Roman law at the University of Granada. In the summer of 1945 he moved to the University of Santiago de Compostela, where he worked 16 years. He founded the cooperation of the university with the University of Coimbra. In 1949 he joined the Opus Dei. From 1953 he served as secretary of the Istituto Giuridico Spagnolo in Roma, which allows students qualified legal study and research stays.

1961 went d' Ors to the newly founded University of Navarra in Pamplona, ​​where he both Roman Law at the Law School taught as held also at the Faculty of Canon Law lectures and exercises. He also relied on the legal history library of the university and supported the training of librarians. To this end, he also wrote a three-volume textbook. In 1985 he retired, but remained active in teaching and research, first as Professor Emeritus, from 1993 as an honorary professor.

Services

Álvaro d' Ors is the preeminent Spanish legal historians of his time. For his versatile work he has received numerous awards at home and abroad. For his book De la guerra y de la paz (1954 ) he was awarded the National Literature Prize in the same year. In 1972 he received the National Research Award, 1974, the cross as a deserved lecturer " Alfonso el Sabio ". The Universities of Toulouse, Coimbra and Rome - La Sapienza awarded him an honorary doctorate (1972, 1983 and 1996). The University of Navarra honored him in 1990 with her gold medal. In 1996 he was awarded the prize for Human and Social Sciences of the Basque Research Association. In 1998 he received the Grand Cross of the Order of San Raimundo de Peñafort and the 1999 Cultural Prize of the Prince of Viana. He was also a regular member of the German Archaeological Institute and corresponding member of the Sociedad de Estudios Romanos, the Real Academia Gallega, the Académie de Législation de Toulouse, of the Portuguese Academy of History and of the Istituto Lombardo to Milan.

Álvaro d' Ors wrote scholarly monographs and essays, manuals, textbooks and pamphlets on Roman private and state law. He also dealt with legal sources from Egypt and from the Gothic period in Spain, with legal Epigraphy and Papyrology. His scientific work is also reflected in the extensive correspondence with the constitutional lawyer Carl Schmitt which was printed in 2004. As a connoisseur of Roman literature authored d' Ors translations of writings of Gaius, Cicero, Pliny the Younger, and the Digest of Justinian.

Writings (selection )

• Constitutio Antoniniana ( P. Giss 40.1. ): Contribución al estudio de valor y su significado para la historia del Derecho Romano. Madrid 1941 (Dissertation)
• Presupuestos criticos para el estudio del Derecho Romano. Salamanca 1943
• El esclavo prestado con una flauta y otros casos de Derecho Romano para principiantes. Santiago de Compostela in 1945
• Introducción al estudio de los documentos del Egipto romano. Madrid 1948
• Epigrafia jurídica de la España romana. Madrid 1953
• De la guerra y de la paz. Madrid 1954
• El Código de Eurico: Edición, Palingenesia, indices. Rome / Madrid 1960
• Derecho Privado Romano. Pamplona 1968. Ninth Edition, Pamplona 1997
• Papeles del oficio University Institute. Pamplona 1968
• Sistema de la Ciencias. Four volumes, Pamplona 1969-1977
• Escritos varios sobre el derecho en crisis. Rome / Madrid 1973
• Ensayos teoría de politica. Pamplona 1979
• La violencia y el orden. Madrid 1987
• La Posesion del espacio. Madrid 1998
• Nueva introducción al estudio del derecho. Madrid 1999
• Derecho y sentido común: Siete de Derecho lecciones natural como limite del derecho positivo. Third Edition Madrid 2001
• Bien común y enemigo público. Madrid 2002

Translations

• Cicerón / Defensa del poeta Arquias. Introducción, traducción y notas. Madrid 1940
• Gayo / Instituciones. Traducción y notas. Madrid 1943
• Plinio el Joven / Panegyrico de Trajano. Edición bilingüe. Madrid 1955
• Cicerón / Las leyes. Introducción, traducción y notas. Madrid 1953. Reprint Madrid 1970
• With Hernández- Tejero, Fuenteseca, Garcia Burillo y El Digesto de Justiniano. Versión castellana. Three volumes, Pamplona 1968-1975
• Cicerón / Sobre la República. Introducción traducción, apéndice y notas. Madrid 1984
• With Xavier d' Ors: Lex Irnitana. Texto biblingüe. Santiago de Compostela in 1988