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

Présentation de l'éditeur : "To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 years is far from self-evident. In A Short History of European Law, Tamar Herzog offers a...

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Auteur principal : Herzog Tamar (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : A short history of European law : the last two and a half millennia / Tamar Herzog
Publié : Cambridge, Mass. [etc.] : Harvard University Press , 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI- 289 p.)
Sujets :
  • Introduction. The making of law in Europe
  • Part One. Ancient times
  • 1. Roman law: now you see it, now you don t
  • 2. The creation of Latin Christendom
  • Part Two. The early Middle Ages
  • 3. An age with no jurists?
  • 4. Lords, emperors, and popes around the year 1000
  • Part Three. The later Middle Ages
  • 5. The birth of a European Ius Commune
  • 6. The birth of an English common law
  • Part Four. The early modern period
  • 7. Crisis and reaffirmation of Ius Commune
  • 8. Crisis and reinvention of common law
  • 9. From Ius Gentium to natural law: making European law universal I
  • Part Five. Modernity
  • 10. North American developments
  • 11. The French Revolution
  • Part Six. The nineteenth century
  • 12. Codifying the laws of Europe: making European law universal II
  • 13. Codifying common law
  • Epilogue. A Market, a Community, and a Union