European traditions--integration or disintegration?
By: J. Oosterhuis & E.G.G. van Dongen (eds.).
Publisher: Wolf Legal Publishers
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Nijmegen [The Netherlands]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9789058509444
Subjects: Civil law systems; Congresses; Comparative law; Law; History; Roman influences
Other titles: Integration or disintegration?
Description: European legal traditions can be characterised as a continuous balancing act of two seemingly contradictory forces: centralisation and de-centralisation. On the one hand, Justinian's Corpus iuris, the medieval ius commune of Roman and Canon law, the usus modernus pandectarum, and the current European harmonisation efforts all have a centralizing or rather an integrative quality about them. While the ius proprium, including the English Common law, and particularly the national codifications of the 19th century, as well as the study of these laws, exhibit more diverse, de-centralizing forces within European legal traditions. This volume shows how comparative legal history can be used as a tool to analyse similarities and differences between legal systems.
Notes: Papers from the 17th annual conference of the Association of Young Legal Historians under the theme European Traditions: integration or disintegration, hosted by the Maastricht University's Law Faculty in April 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.