European Law in the Past and the Future: Unity and Diversity over Two Millennia

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
ONE CODE FOR EVERY COUNTRY?......Page 11
ANGLO-NORMAN FEUDAL LAW......Page 12
GERMANIC ELEMENTS IN THE CODE CIVIL......Page 13
THE GERMAN CIVIL CODE BASED ON ROMAN LAW......Page 14
CHANGE OR CONTINUITY?......Page 17
THE IUS COMMUNE, TRANSNATIONAL BY DEFINITION......Page 23
THE ENGLISH COMMON LAW PURELY ENGLISH?......Page 29
TRIBES AND NATION STATES......Page 32
THE MEDIEVAL IUS COMMUNE......Page 34
TOWARDS A ‘NEW IUS COMMUNE’?......Page 36
DOUBTS ABOUT A ‘NEW IUS COMMUNE’......Page 40
THE CHANCES OF LEGAL UNIFICATION......Page 43
THE PAST INSPIRES OPTIMISM......Page 46
SIX CONTRASTING AREAS......Page 48
THE COMMON LAW UNCODIFIED......Page 49
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAW......Page 51
THE ENGLISH BENCH IS PARAMOUNT......Page 54
THE CONTINENTAL PROFESSOR IS PARAMOUNT......Page 55
SUBSTANTIVE LAW AND PROCEDURE......Page 58
ADVERSARIAL AND INQUISITORIAL PROCESS......Page 61
BIBLICAL AND LEGAL SCRIPTURE......Page 64
THE CORPUS IURIS A HOLY BOOK......Page 65
THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND ORIGINAL INTENT......Page 66
THE CODE CIVIL AND THE SCHOOL OF EXEGESIS......Page 72
THE RE-ROMANIZATION OF THE WEST......Page 83
LEGAL CAUSES......Page 84
POLITICAL CAUSES......Page 85
CULTURAL CAUSES......Page 89
ECONOMIC CAUSES......Page 90
OPPORTUNISTIC CAUSES......Page 92
THE IUS COMMUNE A GOOD THING?......Page 94
GRAECA NON LEGUNTUR......Page 96
THE ‘REALIST SCHOOL’......Page 99
GERMAN UNIFICATION AND THE CIVIL CODE OF 1900......Page 100
GERMANISTS AND ROMANISTS......Page 102
NATIONAL FEELINGS......Page 104
THE ‘SOCIAL QUESTION’......Page 105
THE ‘FORESTS OF GERMANY’......Page 107
THE CIVIL CODE BECOMES LAW......Page 108
CIVIL CODE OR THE PEOPLE’S LAWBOOK?......Page 110
JURISTS IN THE THIRD REICH......Page 113
Epilogue: A look into the twenty-first century......Page 144
INTERNATIONAL......Page 154
ROMAN AND CANON LAW......Page 160
BELGIUM AND THE NETHERLANDS......Page 162
ENGLAND......Page 164
FRANCE......Page 166
GERMANY, AUSTRIA, SWITZERLAND......Page 170
SPAIN......Page 176
BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND DICTIONARIES......Page 177
Index......Page 178