In the year 1908 Professor W. W. Buckland published his book on The Roman Law of Slavery. There existed in England, before that time, no Roman legal studies in the modern sense; and it is no exaggeration to say that it is he qui fundavit ius civile. To-day every scholar in Roman Law or History, whether English or foreign, is acquainted with Buckland's Equity in Roman Law (1911), Elementary Principles of Roman Law (1912), Text-Book of Roman Law (1921, 2nd ed. 1932), Manual of Roman Law (1925, reprinted 1928, new edition to appear 1939), and Main Institutions of Roman Law (1931), and with Buckland and McNair's Roman Law and Common Law (1936).