A short history of European law the last two and a half millennia

Tamar Herzog offers a road map to European law across 2,500 years that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By showing what European law was, where its iterations were found, who made and implemented it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumsta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Herzog, Tamar, 1965- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press 2018
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the making of law in Europe
  • Roman law : now you see it, now you don't
  • The creation of Latin Christendom
  • An age with no jurists?
  • Lords, emperors, and popes around the year 1000
  • The birth of a European ius commune
  • The birth of an English common law
  • Crisis and reaffirmation of Ius Commune
  • Crisis and reinvention of common law
  • From Ius Gentium to natural law : making European law universal I
  • North American developments
  • The French Revolution
  • Codifying the laws of Europe : making European law universal II
  • Codifying common law
  • Epilogue : a market, a community, and a union.