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Roman Law in European History

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ISBN-10: 0521643791

ISBN-13: 9780521643795

Edition: 1999

Authors: Peter Stein

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This is a short summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by one of the world's leading legal historians. Stein assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world, and its continued influence throughout medieval and modern Europe.
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Book details

List price: $40.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/13/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 148
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.748

Introduction
Roman Law in Antiquity
The law of the Twelve Tables
Legal development by interpretation
The praetor and the control of remedies
The ius gentium and the advent of jurists
The Empire and the law
The jurists in the classical period
The ordering of the law
The culmination of classical jurisprudence
The division of the empire
Post-classical law and procedure
The decline of legal science
The end of the Western empire
Justinian and the Corpus iuris
The Revival of Justinian's Law
Roman law and Germanic law in the West
Church and empire
The rediscovery of the Digest
The civil law glossolators
Civil law and canon law
The attraction of the Bologna studium
The new learning outside Italy
Applied civil law: legal procedure
Applied civil law: legislative power
Civil law and custom
Civil law and local laws in the thirteenth century
The studium of Orleans
Roman Law and the Nation State
The commentators
The impact of humanism
Humanism and the civil law
The civil law becomes a science
The ordering of the customary law
The Bartolist reaction
The reception of Roman law
The reception in Germany
Court practice as a source of law
Civil law and natural law
Civil law and international law
Theory and practice in the Netherlands
Roman Law and Codification
Roman law and national laws
The mature natural law
The codification movement
Early codifications in Germany and Austria
Pothier and the French Civil Code
The German historical school
Pandect-science and the German Civil Code
Nineteenth-century legal science outside Germany
Roman law in the twentieth century