| Western European legal history |
| Section A: The Foundation: Roman and
Canon law 500-1100 |
| · The
Corpus Juris Civilis and its survival until the eleventh
century |
| · Roman
law outside the Justinianic tradition: Visigothic and Frankish law
|
| · The
Canon law in the West: Canon law collections before Gratian |
| · Feudal
law and Roman law in Italy |
| · The
revival of the study of Roman law |
| Section B: Interactions of Roman and
local law: twelfth-sixteenth centuries |
| ·
Gratian and the formation of the learned Canon law |
| · The
consolidation of Roman law: the Glossators |
| · The
expansion of Roman law: the Commentators |
| · Canon
law scholarship, practice and influence |
| · Roman
law and political thought |
| Section C: National laws and
codification: sixteenth-nineteenth centuries |
| · The
renaissance of Roman law: humanism in Rome and France |
| · The
droit écrit and droit coutumier in France |
| ·
Mos italicus and mos gallicus |
| · The
reception in Germany |
| · The
Dutch elegant school and the Natural Law movement |
| Section D: Modern perspectives on the
Ius Commune |
| · Early
Natural law codifications |
| ·
Codification in France and its empire |
| · German
romanticism: Savigny vs Thibault |
| ·
Pandektenrecht and Mommsen: German codification and scholarly
reaction in Roman law |
·
Survival and continuity
(a) Andorra, San Marino and the Channel Islands
(b) Scottish amalgam of feudal and Roman law
(c) South African blend of Common law procedure and Roman law
substance |
Sequence:
The sections must be attempted in order. |
Textbooks:
Peter Stein, Roman Law in European History (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999),
ISBN: 9780521643795 |
| O. F. Robinson, W. M. Gordon and David Fergus,
European Legal History 3rd ed (Abingdon: LexisNexis UK,
2000),
ISBN: 9780406913609 |
| Manlio Bellomo and Lydia G. Cochrane, The
Common Legal Past of Europe (Washington DC: Catholic
University of America Press, 1995), ISBN: 9780813208145 |
