Abstract
There is a very close relationship between the development of the Roman legal system, grounded on the activity of the jurists, and the creation of an imperial network of commercial relationships in the Mediterranean Sea. We can see this in the late Republic, between the end of the third Punic War and the Augustan age—when Roman legal thinking transforms itself in a scientific knowledge, connected with the development of a world power. An essential feature of this society was slavery, as slaves played a crucial role in many aspects of the economy. During this period, Roman law created contracts and remedies essential to commerce, and so in many ways anticipated the commercial development of the modern world. But rather than defining commercial relations in such a way as to exclude slavery, Roman law reinforced the central role of slavery in Roman society.
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