Legal education in Ancient Rome's schools

Abstract

As the only legal rules known in the Roman Kingdom were the archaic fas, Roman education from monarchy was an education suitable for traditional people, instilling in youth the respect for the customs of the ancestors. Moreover, because Roman civilization did not develop autonomously, it assimilated the structures and techniques of the much more evolved Hellenistic one. Therefore, Roman legal education system was based on the Greek thinking and, under certain aspects, it was created from the desire of citizens to have a Law education. If at the beginning of the Republic we observe an informal legal education system, with the beginning of the Empire, this field changed gradually, finding a final form in the Dominate.