European legal tradition 2200-1CWHP64-ERA
1. Classical Roman law as the legal system of the Western Roman Empire
2. The Eastern reception of Roman law: Byzantine law and Justinian
3. The Western reception: mos italicus (the glossators and commentators)
4. Canon law and the papal (Gregorian) revolution of the 11th century
5. The growth and character of the court-oriented English common law
6. Western influence in Eastern Europe: the canon law (ius canonicum)
7. Western influence in Eastern Europe: the German town law (Stadtrecht)
8. Legal humanism (mos gallicus) and natural law (the law of reason)
9. The crisis of the ius commune: the German usus modernus pandectarum
10. The Prussian (ALR), French (code civil) and Austrian (ABGB) codes
11. The German Historical School, the Pandectists and the German BGB
12. The impact of Western legal science and legislation on Eastern Europe
13. European constitutionalism and public law reforms in the 19th century
14. Dictatorships of the 20th century: the real socialism and the Nazi regime
15. After World War II: European Integration and European legal identity
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Bibliography
1. Raoul C. van Caenegem, An historical introduction to Western constitutional law, Cambridge 1995
2. Franz Wieacker, A history of private law in Europe with particular reference to Germany, Oxford 1995
3. Ditlev Tamm, Roman law and European legal history, Copenhagen 1997
4. Thomas Glyn Watkin, An historical introduction to modern civil law, Aldershot 1999
5. Olivia F. Robinson, T. David Fergus, William M. Gordon, European legal history. Sources and institutions, 3 ed., London 2000
6. Peter Stein, Roman law in European history, Cambridge 2000
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