In a recent article, written together with Khaled Abu El Fadl, I declared:101 Armchair Lawmakers: the Case of the Roman lex Aquilia I 101 ‘Fox Hunting, Pheasant Shooting, and Comparative Law,’ 48American Journal of Comparative Law(2000), pp. 1ff., at pp. 1f. In the final appendix to his book, The Sprit of Roman Law, Alan Watson, perhaps incautiously, drew a short analogy between the art of pheasant shooters in the U.K. and the art of the Roman jurists. Both are pastimes that are treated as important adjuncts of gentlemen. The Roman jurist as a gentleman in a slave-owning society where most work was despised had to fill in his day somehow. For historical reasons, interpretation of law had come to be one LECTURE 5
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