The textbook “Via Latina ad ius” (“The Latin Road to Law”) contains basic information on the grammar of the Latin language, rich didactic material, a Latin-Russian dictionary, reports on outstanding Roman jurists, orators, thinkers and poets of antiquity, as well as Selected casuistic problems from Roman law. The anthology includes fragments from the Digest and Institutes of Justinian, the Institutes of Gaius, extracts from the works of Cicero, Seneca, Apuleius, Macrobius, which touch on legal issues, and excerpts from the Vulgate. The textbook prepares the reader to work with primary sources of any degree of complexity on Roman law in Latin. The book is addressed to lawyers, legal historians, and anyone interested in the Latin language, Roman law and ancient culture.