Roman law as a source of European legal culture 4018-KON315-CLASS
1. Roman law and its importance for contemporary law and legal education
2. The historical law of Rome (source of law in Rome; creating a systematics of law in Rome; codification in the late empire)
3. The work of Justinian and its impact on the development of law in Europe (glossators, commentators, legal humanism)
4. Ius comune europeum
5. The law of nature school and the Enlightenment. The idea to codify and simplify the law
6. Jurisprudence in Diderot’s Encyclopaedia
7. The French civil code - an example of early 19th-century codification
8. The Savigny - Thibaut polemics; 19th-century German pandectics; BGB
9. The Codification Committee in the Second Republic of Poland; codification during communism and in the Third Republic
10. Common elements of European legal culture
* Concepts of the foundations of the law of united Europe
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
- basic knowledge on the place and role of the humanities, the social, exact and natural sciences in early and contemporary culture
- basic research skills enabling the formulation of research problems from the humanities, philosophy, literature, and arts
- understanding the importance of Europe's cultural diversity and heritage
Assessment criteria
attendance, preparing a paper, discussing papers
Bibliography
1) W. Wołodkiewicz, Europa i prawo rzymskie. Szkice z historii europejskiej kultury prawnej, Warszawa (Wolters Kluwer) 2009;
2) Regulae iuris. Łacińskie inskrypcje na kolumnach Sądu Najwyższego Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej, pod redakcją W. Wołodkiewicza, Warszawa (C.H.Beck) wydania 2002, 2006, 2010
3) W. Wołodkiewicz, Prawoznawstwo w poglądach i ujęciu Encyklopedystów, Warszawa 1990
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