Nel prisma degli studi sul processo romano. Il dissidio scientifico tra Moriz Wlassak e Philipp Lotmar

The great scholar of the Roman private trial Moriz Wlassak (1854-1939) also dealt with the criminal trial, denying the existence of the litis contestatio in the iudicia publica. Philipp Lotmar’s reasoned criticisms (1850-1922) did not dissuade him. Indeed, in 1920 Wlassak spikedly replied to Lotmar that, now in poor health, he did not react. After a hundred years, the diatribe, of which historiography has tacitly recognize Wlassak as the winner, continues to remain open on the scientific level, confirming the reconstructive difficulties that every study in the field of process encounters.

Keywords: Philipp Lotmar, Moriz Wlassak, litis contestatio, criminal trial