David Daube in Aberdeen


David Daube in Aberdeen

Aberdeen honorand 1990

Special Libraries and Archives at the University of Aberdeen

2009 DD Centenary Celebration Programme [PDF]

Message from the President of Development Trust USA

David Daube: A Centenary Celebration. 2010 [Papers]

Law for All Times: Essays in Memory of David Daube. 2004 [Papers]

David Daube was a scholar of exceptional brilliance and range who worked with great insight and originality on legal and theological texts. A refugee from Nazi Germany, Daube worked at Cambridge before appointment as first Professor of Jurisprudence at Aberdeen in 1951; later Regius Chair of Civil Law at Oxford, Daube subsequently moved to the University of California at Berkeley. He died in 1999.

In 2001 at Aberdeen the first CMS Cameron McKenna lecture was given by Lord Rodger of Earlsferry in honour of David Daube, and a Civil Law Symposium honouring Daube took place on the same occasion. It was on this occasion that the Daube family gifted to the University David Daube's papers and books. Information relevant to the collection will be posted on this page. The papers from the Civil Law Symposium, and information about Special Libraries and Archives, may be found from the links to the left.

David Daube Centenary Celebration 2009

The immediate catalyst for establishing this site was a conference at the University of Aberdeen over 27–28 February 2009 to mark and celebrate the centenary of the birth of David Daube. The idea of a centenary event came from David's son Jonathan, an Aberdeen arts graduate who has long served the University of Aberdeen Development Trust USA. The conference programme brought together scholars who were taught by Daube as well as those acquainted with him through his work.

The contributors to a most successful conference included the following: Professor Reuven Yaron, author of three pioneering 1960s books on ancient law, who in the 1950s moved with his pupil-master Daube from Aberdeen to Oxford; Professor William Gordon, Aberdeen graduate - taught by Daube in the 1950s - and honorary LLD, a distinguished Roman law scholar and author of the definitive modern text on Scottish land law; Professor Alan Watson, noted Romanist and renowned 'legal transplants' scholar, a pupil of Daube's at Oxford; Lord Rodger of Earlsferry, also an Aberdeen honorary LLD, a scholar of Roman Law and a distinguished judge - a former Law Lord now a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom - also supervised by Daube at Oxford.

A selection of papers from the conference are published: Ernest Metzger, ed., David Daube: A Centenary Celebration (Glasgow: Traditio Iuris Romani. 2010). Information about the volume is available from the link to the left.

Centenary Celebration Participants

Alan Rodger

Lord Rodger of Earlsferry; Aberdeen LLD and Honorary Professor. Lord Rodger was a pupil of David Daube's at Oxford.

Reuven Yaron

Professor Emeritus, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a pupil of David Daube's and taught at Aberdeen in the 1960s.

Calum Carmichael

Professor of Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of Law at Cornell; the editor of a six-volume series devoted to the work of David Daube, who was his teacher at Oxford.

Kathleen Vanden Heuvel

Director, Law Library, Boalt Hall, Berkeley. She was taught by David Daube at Berkeley.

Bernard Jackson

Professor Of Law And Jewish Studies, Liverpool Hope University. He was a pupil of David Daube's at Oxford.

William Gordon

Emeritus Douglas Professor of Civil Law, Glasgow; Hon LLD Aberdeen. He was an undergraduate student of David Daube's at Aberdeen.

Ernest Metzger

Douglas Professor of Civil Law, University of Glasgow; formerly Professor of Civil and Comparative Law, University of Aberdeen.

Gero Dolezalek

Professor of Civil law, University of Aberdeen. He was taught by David Daube at Berkeley.

David Ibbetson

Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Cambridge

Boudewijn Sirks

Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Oxford.

John Cairns

Professor of Legal History, University of Edinburgh.

Alan Watson

Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair of Law, University of Georgia. He was a pupil of David Daube's at Oxford.

Geoffrey MacCormack

Emeritus Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Aberdeen.

Hector MacQueen

Professor of Private Law, University of Edinburgh.

Larry Hurtado

Professor of New Testament Language, Literature and Theology, University of Edinburgh.

Fergus Millar

Emeritus Camden Professor of Ancient History, University of Oxford. He had considerable contact with David Daube.

Tiziana Chiusi

Professor of Civil Law, University of Saarland.

David Johnston QC

Emeritus Regius Professor of Civil Law, University of Cambridge; Faculty of Advocates.

Joachim Schaper

Professor in Hebrew, Old Testament and Early Jewish Studies, University of Aberdeen.

Robert Segal

Professor in Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Chancellor's Professor, Anthropology, University of California at Berkeley. Her paper was read by Kathleen Vanden Heuvel.

William Horbury

Professor of Jewish and Early Christian Studies, and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge)

Photographs from the Centenary Celebration

From left to right: Professor Chris Gane (who opened the conference), Dr Jonathan Daube, Kathleen Vanden Heuvel, Matthew Daube, Linda Daube, Mike Daube, Jo Nieuwkerk, Ben Daube and Professor David Carey Miller.

The Daube brothers: Mike, Jonathan and Ben Daube.

Professor Reuven Yaron speaking in the opening session of the conference. Front row foreground: Professor Geoffrey MacCormack and Professor Hector MacQueen (Edinburgh)

Professor Michael Meston, Mrs Isabella Gordon, Professor Bill Gordon (Glasgow) and Jonathan Daube.