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In this first of a definitive seven-volume work to be published by Transaction, by Gray L. Dorsey, a major figure in the philos-ophy and history of law, the ancient roots of the culture of Western jurisprudence are treated. This volume explores the forma-tion and regulation of societies in early Greece and classical Rome in relation to prevailing beliefs about reality, knowing, and desiring. And while part of a series, the volume clearly stands on its own.The central question addressed in this fundamental reexamination of the organi-zation and regulation of antiquity is how, in a world in which major physical and human events are defined as in control of the gods, and with few mortals said to pos-sess such powers, did the Greeks and Ro-mans distribute decision-making powers to ensure survival and wealth? The meth-ods by which these issues are addressed is called'Jurisculture'to distinguish it from the analytical procedures of either philoso-phy or empirical social research.Jurisculture identifies sets of mean-ings that derive from premises about real-ity and human nature, and beliefs con-sidered basic in organizing and controlling that reality. This work aims at nothing less than the discovery of new interrelations between prevailing ideas of antiquity and their codification and implementation in legal institutions and principles.This volume is addressed to those people who are concerned with the wise and effective use of public discourse to ar-rive at prudent national and foreign pol-icies. Professor Dorsey discusses philosophical and social ideas, but always in the context of their implications for the prob-lems of organizing and regulating human cooperation. The emergence of the phi-losophy of law has made possible the rapid development of normative theory in the social sciences. This volume provides a powerful historical and analytical tool for this broad-sweeping development.

Laws are imposed on facts. But what is the law to do when its rules for establishing facts do not—because they cannot—produce a satisfactory answer? Scenarios that raise this intractable uncertainty problem have been treated as isolated concerns, but are in fact endemic across legal systems. They can cross jurisdictional and doctrinal boundaries, have recurred throughout history, and demand creative thinking from those faced with them. This book explores the law's understandings of and responses to such situations from a comparative historical perspective. It investigates how the law has framed these most difficult problems of uncertainty; dealt with uncertainty's often unclear boundaries; and developed a broad range of different responses to solve or avoid it, across doctrine, time, and jurisdiction. The work examines a selection of key uncertainty problems across private law as elements of a singular uncertainty issue endemic in legal systems. This analysis will be of interest to historians and comparatists, but also to doctrinal, theoretical, and other scholars and practitioners. The analysis leaves us better informed and better equipped for dealing with future scenarios where uncertainty arises, including insights beyond national and doctrinal confines.

The boundaries between the history of law and the history of everything else are quite blurry nowadays. Whether one is asking questions about the origins of the carceral state, the relationship between slavery and capitalism, the history of migration flows and empires, the longer story of human rights, the building of the straight state, the role of religion in public life, or many others, there is a shared belief that law and its history matters. In fact, legal historians began to focus on the blurring of boundaries such as those between markets and politics, between identity and state power, as well as between national borders and the flows of people, capital and ideas around the world. Legal history, broadly conceived, seems to mark much of the most exciting work that is redrawing the boundaries of historical scholarship in many areas of study. In Between and Across: Legal History without Boundaries gathers some of the newest and freshest work by both younger and established scholars who are carrying forward that project and extending it into new areas of historical inquiry. It captures the best of the new and innovative tools and questions that have made law a central plane of inquiry, charts novel directions for the field, and poses broader questions concerning the past, present, and future. Crossing a wide variety of geographic areas (from British-ruled Australia to colonial India and Malaysia, to the United States), the authors sketch new boundaries for the field to cross - boundaries of time, geography, and method - and claim that legal history provides the language to talk across national borders.

La escuela histórica admite que la materia del Derecho está dada por todo el pasado de la nación; pero no de una manera arbitraria y de tal modo que pudiera ser esta o la otra accidentalmente, sino como procediendo de la íntima esencia de la nación misma y de su historia. Después, cada tiempo deberá encaminar su actividad a examinar, rejuvenecer y mantener fresca esta materia nacida por obra de una necesidad interna. Friedrich Carl Von Savigny

Die Beiträge dieses Open-Access-Buchs diskutieren das Verständnis von Rhetorik, mit dem heute in Literatur- und Rechtswissenschaft gearbeitet wird. Sie beleuchten, inwiefern sich die westliche Tradition von rhetorischen Perspektiven aus anderen Sprach-, Kultur- und Rechtsräumen unterscheidet. Während die Rhetorik in antiker Tradition in der Literaturtheorie nach wie vor eine große Rolle spielt, hat sie ihren Status als Leitdisziplin in den Rechtswissenschaften eingebüßt und ist lediglich für Teilbereiche wie Argumentationstheorie und Rechtslogik relevant. Der Band nimmt Recht und Literatur in ihrer gemeinsamen sprachlichen Konstitution ernst und fragt nicht zuletzt nach einem geteilten Grundverständnis von Rhetorik.

In honour of the work and writings of Professor John Bell, leading scholars present essays on factors affecting the course of'legal development'in common law and Civilian systems. The reasons and context for legal development in a comparative perspective embrace the law both in action and in the books, legal institutions, legal cultures, and the extra-legal environment. Offering an accessible pathway into understanding comparative law, the collection introduces the core features of understanding foreign legal systems. With a range of illustrative case studies, the essays explore topical problems and debates in tort, contract, legal history, and judicial studies. In a tribute to one of the defining legal scholars of our time, this volume draws a rich, nuanced picture of the object of comparative legal research, and indicates new and exciting avenues for further research.

​This book considers how legal history has shaped and continues to shape our shared present. Each chapter draws a clear and significant connection to a meaningful feature of our lives today. Focusing primarily on England and Australia, contributions show the diversity of approaches to legal history's relevance to the present. Some contributors have a tight focus on legal decisions of particular importance. Others take much bigger picture overview of major changes that take centuries to register and where impact is still felt. The contributors are a mix of legal historians, practising lawyers, members of the judiciary, and legal academics, and develop analysis from a range of sources from statutes and legal treatises to television programs. Major legal personalities from Edward Marshall Hall to Sir Dudley Ryder are considered, as are landmarks in law from the Magna Carta to the Mabo Decision.

Giambattista Vico gilt als Begründer der Kulturwissenschaft, obwohl er Jurist war und Rhetorik lehrte. Der Autor führt die juristische Provenienz mit Vicos kulturgeschichtlichen Entdeckungen zusammen und begründet diese in Verbindung mit jener. Durch diese Rückbesinnung auf Vicos Theorie kann womöglich auch die Rechtswissenschaft als Kulturwissenschaft begriffen werden.

Die 48 Beiträge dieses Reinhard Zimmermann zum 70. Geburtstag gewidmeten Bandes beleuchten die Methode der historischen Rechtsvergleichung auf den Gebieten der Rechtsgeschäftslehre, des Schuldrechts, des Sachenrechts, des Familien- und Erbrechts sowie der juristischen Methode selbst. Sie beschreiben Berührungspunkte unterschiedlicher Rechtstraditionen durch wissenschaftliche Diskurse, persönlichen Austausch und praktische Rezeption. Vereint sind sie durch die Überzeugung, dass rechtliche Phänomene sich häufig nur durch eine Verbindung historischer und vergleichender Perspektiven richtig verstehen lassen. Gegenstand des Bandes sind die historischen Wege der europäischen Rechtstraditionen, wobei der Fokus auf den Weggabelungen, Kreuzungen und Verzweigungen liegt, an denen die heutigen europäischen Rechtsordnungen ihre Gestalt gewonnen haben.

Nach verbreiteter Vorstellung folgt die Begründung juristischer Entscheidungen einer deduktiven Methode. Analogisches Begründen sei dagegen nur von untergeordneter Relevanz. In dieser Publikation wird ein differenzierteres Bild juristischer Begründungsweisen gezeichnet. Das Buch greift die These auf, dass die strukturelle Vielschichtigkeit juristischer Argumentation eher durch ein Begründungsmodell erfasst werden kann, das sich an das aristotelische Enthymem anlehnt, als durch ein deduktives Argumentationsmodell. Um diese These zu belegen, setzt sich die Publikation mit der Rezeption informaler und formaler Logiken im rechtstheoretischen Schrifttum auseinander und erprobt die Reichweite, mit der diese Logiken geeignet sind, insbesondere die realiter von den Gerichten praktizierte Argumentation zu repräsentieren.

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms—a US invention—along with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This neoliberal-inspired revolution attacks complacent legal oligarchies in the name of America-inspired modernism. Drawing on the combined histories of the legal profession, imperial transformations, and the enduring and conservative role of cosmopolitan elites at the top of legal hierarchies, the book details case studies in India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and China to explain how interconnected legal histories are stories of both revolution and reproduction. Theoretically and methodologically ambitious, it offers a wholly new approach to studying interrelated fields across time and geographies.

From ancient Mesopotamia to today, the epic story of how humans have used laws to forge civilizations Rulers throughout history have used laws to impose order. But laws were not simply instruments of power and social control. They also offered ordinary people a way to express their diverse visions for a better world. In The Rule of Laws, Oxford scholar Fernanda Pirie traces the rise and fall of the sophisticated legal systems underpinning ancient empires and religious traditions, while also showing how common people—tribal assemblies, merchants, farmers—called on laws to define their communities, regulate trade, and build civilizations. Although legal principles originating in Western Europe now seem to dominate the globe, the variety of the world's laws has long been almost as great as the variety of its societies. What truly unites human beings, Pirie argues, is our very faith that laws can produce justice, combat oppression, and create order from chaos.

This volume offers the first comprehensive account of the monetary logic that guided the payment of wergild and blood money in early medieval conflict resolution. In the early middle ages, wergild played multiple roles: it was used to measure a person's status, to prevent and end conflicts, and to negotiate between an individual and the agents of statehood. This collection of interlocking essays by historians, philologists and jurists represents a major contribution to the study of law and society in Western Europe during the early Middle Ages. Contributors are Lukas Bothe, Warren Brown, Stefan Esders, Wolfgang Haubrichs, Paul Hyams, Tom Lambert, Ralph W. Mathisen, Rob Meens, Han Nijdam, Lisi Oliver, Harald Siems, Karl Ubl, and Helle Vogt. See inside the book.

Este libro, siguiendo el método de la historia conceptual, explica la historia de la noción de “filosofía del derecho”. Parte desde la distinción entre la “simulata” y la “vera philosophia”, continúa con la noción renacentista de “philosophia legalis” y muestra que, desde 1650 hasta 1730, empezaron a proliferar, en las regiones luteranas, tratados y manuales con el nombre de “philosophia iuris”. Estas obras (desde Chopius a Reftelius, pasando por Thomasius) jamás se habían estudiado sistemáticamente. Estos profesores, a partir del bachillerato trienal en Filosofía y de la cátedra de “derecho natural”, buscaban unos primeros principios del derecho y querían trazar una base conceptual para la transición pedagógica desde la Facultad de Artes y Filosofía a la de Derecho. Tras unas décadas en las que se impuso definitivamente la noción de “ius naturale et gentium” (1730-1780), hubo –a causa de la filosofía kantiana– una violenta reacción contra los excesos filosóficos del iusnaturalismo racionalista. Se acuñó entonces –por parte de Hugo y otros– la noción de “Philosophie des positiven Rechts”, frente a la cual algunos filósofos como Hegel respondieron con una “Philosophie des Rechts” o “Rechtsphilosophie”. A través de este estudio histórico se llegan a unas reflexiones sobre la actual dicotomía entre “teoría” y “filosofía del derecho” y, a partir del análisis historico, se proponen algunas soluciones.

Law is the most sacred fetish of our time. From radicals to conservatives, there is no militant, activist or thinker who would consider doing without it. But the history of our fascination with law is long and complex, and reaches deeper into our culture than we might think. In After Law, Laurent de Sutter takes us on a journey to uncover the sources of our fascination. He shows that at a certain moment in our history a choice was made to treat law as a decisive feature of civilization, but this choice was neither obvious nor necessary. Other political, social, religious or cultural possibilities could have been chosen instead – from ancient Egypt to Mesopotamia, from medieval Japan to China, from Islam to Judaism, other cultures have devised sophisticated tools to help people live together without having to deal with norms, rules and principles. This is a lesson worth reflecting on, especially at a time when the rule of law and the functioning of justice are increasingly showing their sinister side – and their impotence. Is there life beyond law?

Gracias a las contribuciones de especialistas con diferentes formaciones y trayectorias, este volumen intenta fomentar unas cuantas incursiones en las fronteras que los supuestos de la Ilustración han conseguido cimentar en los proyectos levantados por la cultura jurídica occidental de los últimos tres siglos. Con una perspectiva diacrónica y transatlántica los autores se confrontan con las dinámicas donde la frontera se torcía en perímetro y se hacía límite, capaz de estabilizar y absorber las tensiones estructurales de la sociedad, para luego abrirse o quebrarse, cuando la ilusión de haber alcanzado el edificio perfecto chocaba con el descubrimiento de grietas estructurales. De allí que en estos momentos se reactivase una reflexión sobre los cimientos que habían puesto voluntad e individuo como elementos inexcusables (que no significa exclusivos) de la declinación de lo político y de lo jurídico de un Occidente que llega a hacer, en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, del hombre-ciudadano y de sus derechos los parámetros de la humanidad, alcanzado la frontera donde todavía hoy se está moviendo la reflexión y la praxis del poder.

Digital New Deal analyses the origins of law and its relationship to language and economics and identifies 12 symptoms that point to an authoritarian involution of our democracies. It refuses to indulge in pro-forma techno-optimism. Neither does it pessimistically predict inescapable doom. A bright future is still possible, if we correctly understand the digital equivalents of categories such as identity, persona, home, document, signature, freedom and the close relationship between our fundamental rights and their digital equivalents. Riccardo Genghini's research on a natural law for a digital society has been influenced in particular by Galgano, Popper, Sebeok, Rawls, Ong, Irti, Searle and Ferraris. As professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milano, his lessons (2007- 2017) on commercial law focussed on comparing the law merchant of the Middle Ages with the commercial practices of IT companies as Microsoft, eBay, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft. First with CEN, now with ETSI, he steers the European standardisation on PKI and trust services since 1999.

The period since the First World War has been a century distinguished by the loss of any unitary foundation for truth, ethics, and the legitimate authority of law. With the emergence of radical pluralism, law has become the site of extraordinary creativity and, on occasion, a source of rights for those historically excluded from its protection. A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age tells stories of human struggles in the face of state authority – including Aboriginal land claims, popular resistance to corporate power, and the inter-generational ramifications of genocidal state violence. The essays address how, and with what effects, different expressive modes (ceremonial dance, live street theater, the acoustics of radio, the affective range of film, to name a few) help to construct, memorialize, and disseminate political and legal meaning.Drawing upon a wealth of visual, textual and sound sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Modern Age presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.

Los historiadores del Derecho construyen la historia de las normas, nos cuentan el pasado del Estado. ¿Cómo escriben estos historiadores su Historia? O, antes y primero que cualquier otra pregunta: ¿son historiadores estos académicos, o acaso son solo juristas? Porque hasta hace muy poco tiempo estos académicos no formaban parte de los grupos de historiadores generales, su historiografía se mantenía al margen, aislada, ensimismada. ¿Cuál era la razón de ello? Responder a estas preguntas, desentrañar las fórmulas mediante las cuales se ha escrito la historia de nuestro Derecho y proponer caminos nuevos y mejores para comprender el origen y sentido histórico de las normas: todo eso es lo que pretenden estas páginas. Así de importante es este libro. José María Pérez Collados actualmente es catedrático de Historia del Derecho en la Universidad de Girona y profesor en el Programa de doctorado de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Ha sido investigador titular en la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, y profesor en varias universidades chilenas, en la Universidad de Zaragoza, en la Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona y en la Universidad de Birmingham, así como investigador invitado en la Escuela de Estudios Superiores en Ciencias Sociales de París. Ha publicado diversos ensayos de historia política, entre los que destaca Los discursos políticos del México originario (México D. F., 1998). Ha cultivado la poesía (Lo que no te conté de mis viajes, Zaragoza, 1998) y la novela (El Tren de cristal, Sevilla, 2011, y Ahora que ya no estás, Madrid, 2016).

As a field of study, legal history has an unsteady place in Australian law schools yet academic research and writing in the field of legal history and at the intersections of the disciplines of ‘law'and ‘history'is undergoing something of a renaissance, with rich and vibrant new works regularly appearing in specialist journals and scholarly monographs. This collection seeks to reinvigorate the study of history within the law school curriculum, by showcasing what students of the law can achieve when, addressing topics from the use of Magna Carta as history and precedent in sixteenth-century England to the political manoeuvres behind the failed impeachment of President Bill Clinton in late twentieth-century America, they seek to understand legal processes and institutions historically. The volume comprises outstanding legal history papers authored by graduate (final year JD) students in the Melbourne Law School. This collection is dedicated to two women who championed the teaching of legal history at the Melbourne Law School in the 1960s—Dr Ruth Campbell and Mrs Betty Hayes.

The driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernisation – transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernisation, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With selected examples of different legal institutions, countries and periods, the authors of the essays in the two volumes Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. I:Private Law and Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. II: Public Law seek to explain the nature of this problem. Contributors are Michał Gałędek, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli, Anna Klimaszewska, Łukasz Jan Korporowicz, Beata J. Kowalczyk, Marju Luts-Sootak, Marcin Michalak, Annamaria Monti, Zsuzsanna Peres, Sara Pilloni, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Sean Thomas, Bart Wauters, Steven Wilf, and Mingzhe Zhu.

Gerechtigkeit ist eine universelle Forderung von Gesellschaften in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Der Band versammelt Beiträge über die Voraussetzungen und Bezugssysteme der Forderung nach Gerechtigkeit, wie sie besonders in der Figur des gerechten Herrschers amalgamierten. Die Aufsätze behandeln unter anderem das muslimische Osmanenreich, die orthodoxe Moskauer Rus', das lateinische Christentum im Alten Reich sowie die konfessionelle Übergangszone Polen-Litauen. Im Unterschied zur älteren Fürstenspiegelforschung analysiert die historische Gerechtigkeitsforschung ihren Untersuchungsgegenstand im Umfeld von Weltordnung, Religion, Moral, Recht, Gewalt und Herrschaft, um dessen historischen Ort in Rhetorik und vollzogener Geschichte zu bestimmen.

This innovative book explores forgotten disputes over intellectual property and the ways in which authors, inventors, publishers, courts, and sovereigns have managed these disputes throughout the centuries. With an eye on reform, it chronicles the resilience of legal rules and challenges the methodology behind traditional legal analyses. Disentangling lore from traditions, expert contributors incorporate contextual understandings that are rooted in history, sociology, political science, and literary studies into their analyses. They explore the context of particular cases to reveal the ramifications of specific doctrines for the evolution of intellectual property practices. Chapters illuminate the various facets of intellectual property lore: contract, authorship, common law, and wartime property. Utilising novel methods and previously unpublished materials on copyright, patent, and trademark law, the book examines legal history and developments from multiple perspectives. This rich and accessible book will prove to be a valuable resource for students, academics of intellectual property law, and legal historians. Its use of new materials and exploration of key cases will also be beneficial for intellectual property legal practitioners.

Emphatic of the importance of legal thought to the rise and fall of empires, this book highlights the centrality of empires to the development of legal thought. Comprehension of the development of legal thought over time is necessary for any historical, philosophical, practical, or theoretical enquiry into the subject today, it is argued here. When seen against the background of broad geopolitical, diplomatic, administrative, intellectual, religious, and commercial changes, law begins to appear very resilient. It withstands the rise and fall of empires. It provides the framework for the establishment of new orders in the place of the old. Today what analogies, principles, and authorities of law have survived these changes continue to inform much of the international legal tradition. Contributors are: Clifford Ando, Lia Brazil, Joseph Canning, Edward Cavanagh, Zachary Chitwood, Emanuele Conte, Matthew Crow, Alberto Esu, Tiziana Faitini, Dante Fedele, Naveen Kanalu, Alexandre A. Loktionov, P. G. McHugh, Jordan Rudinsky, Mark Somos, Joshua Smeltzer, Lorenzo Veracini, Halcyon Weber, and Sarah Winter.

This collection brings together a group of international legal historians to further scholarship in different areas of comparative and regional legal history. Authors are drawn from Europe, Asia, and the Americas to produce new insights into the relationship between law and society across time and space. The book is divided into three parts: legal history and legal culture across borders, constitutional experiences in global perspective, and the history of judicial experiences. The three themes, and the chapters corresponding to each, provide a balance between public law and private law topics, and reflect a variety of methodologies, both empirical and theoretical. The volume highlights the gains that may be made by comparing the development of law in different countries and different time periods.The book will be of interest to an international readership in Legal History, Comparative Law, Law and Society, and History.

L'insegnamento della storia del diritto, collocato generalmente nel corso di studi magistrale a ciclo unico in Giurisprudenza al 1 anno, intende offrire al giovane che si sta formando un inquadramento delle vicende che hanno portato al diritto attuale. Il giovane studente alle prime armi con gli studi di giurisprudenza deve quindi procurarsi una visione d'insieme della storia del diritto, praticamente dal sec. V al sec. XXI: non è certo poco, nel breve lasso di tempo delle lezioni di un anno accademico. È presupposta perciò la persistenza di un minimo di conoscenze storiche apprese in precedenza, recuperabili anche grazie ad alcune Cartine storiche e genealogie riportate sul sito d'appoggio al volume. La storia giuridica europea di oltre 1500 anni presenta molteplici aspetti: è necessario perciò effettuare delle scelte, data l'esiguità del tempo a disposizione. È stato questo il problema più difficile e delicato da superare nel volume. All'Autore è parso opportuno preferire quegli argomenti,che sono sembrati essenziali per la formazione di un attuale giurista. In questa prospettiva, ha considerato perciò maggiormente adatti quelli più legati ai nostri interessi presenti, o per la vicinanza cronologica o per l'attuale sensibilità, come quelli sulla posizione del legislatore, del giurista o del giudice entro l'ordinamento. Si tratta di una scelta senza dubbio opinabile, ma necessaria, se si devono purtroppo operare dei'tagli'per cercare di restare nel ristretto ambito temporale ed oggettivo indicato. Questa indispensabile limitazione ai punti ritenuti essenziali ha comportato una compressione della parte più nozionistica, con l'avvertenza però che per illustrare i diversi concetti si deve pur sempre partire dall'analisi e dall'apprendimento di un certo numero di elementi. Ne consegue che quanto esposto nei due manuali (uno per l'età medievale e moderna ed uno per quella contemporanea) è tutto indispensabile per una conoscenza – anche solo elementare – degli aspetti fondamentali del diritto di questo lungo periodo di oltre 15 secoli. Lo studente deve quindi studiarlo con cura ed attenzione. Queste pagine sono destinate ad agevolarlo nell'apprendimento di quanto più ampiamente è esposto o sottolineato a lezione dal docente.

Is comparative legal history an emerging discipline or a much-needed dialogue between two academic subjects? This research handbook presents the field in a uniquely holistic way, and illustrates how comparative law and legal history are inextricably related. Cementing a solid theoretical grounding for the discipline, legal historians and comparatists place this subject at the forefront of legal science. Comprehensive in coverage, this handbook collates theory and method for comparative legal history, as well as discussing international legal sources and judicial and civil institutions. Particular attention is paid to custom and codification, contracts, civil procedure and ownership. By assessing the evolution of law across European, Asian, African and American environments from the pre-modern era to the nineteenth century, the chapters provide stimulating and enlightening cases of legal history through a comparative lens. A centrepiece for this field of scholarship, this research handbook will be an essential resource for scholars interested in comparative law, legal theory and legal history, from both legal and social science backgrounds. Contributors: S.P. Donlan, S. Drescher, M. Dyson, P. Finkelman, D. Freda, A. Giuliani, J.-L. Halpérin, D. Heirbaut, E. Kadens, M.S.-H. Kim, A. Masferrer, D. Michalsen, K.Å. Modéer, O. Moréteau, J.A. Obarrio, A. Parise, H. Pihlajamäki, W. Swain, A. Taitslin, C.H. van Rhee, J. Vanderlinden

The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law. Between 1600 and 1900 the towns in Western Europe, the Kingdoms in Eastern Europe, the Empires in Asia and the Colonial States in Asia and the Americas were all characterised by a plurality of legal orders resulting from interactions and negotiations between states, institutions, and people with different backgrounds. Through exploring how justice is used within these different areas of the world, this book offers a broad global perspective, but it also adopts a fresh approach through shifting attention away from states and onto how ordinary people lived with and made use of this ‘legal pluralism'. Containing a wealth of extensively contextualised case studies and contributing to debates on socio-legal history, processes of state formation from below, access to justice, and legal pluralism, The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 questions to what degree top-down imposed formal institutions were used and how, and to what degree, bottom-up crafted legal systems were crucial in allowing transactions to happen. It is ideal for students and scholars of early modern justice, crime and legal history.

'Escuela histórica del derecho','Argumentación jurídica y calidad de la decisión judicial','Modelos alternativos de resolución de conflictos','El derecho colaborativo en Colombia','La cláusula arbitral patológica','Aproximación al derecho internacional desde el Tercer Mundo'y'Diálogo entre los hechos y el derecho'son los temas que contiene esta obra que rinde homenaje a la memoria de los profesores José Manuel Luque Campo y Nicolasa González de Luque, por su invaluable aporte a la formación de varias generaciones de juristas egresados del programa de Derecho, Ciencia Política y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad del Norte. Se incluye además el capítulo'La simulación y sus implicaciones civiles'escrito por la profesora Nicolasa González de Luque, cuya publicación póstuma se constituye en parte de su legado a los estudios jurídicos desde el Caribe colombiano.

Opened up by the revival of Classical thought but riven by the violence of the Reformation and Counter Reformation, the terrain of Early Modern law was constantly shifting. The age of expansion saw unparalleled degrees of internal and external exploration and colonization, accompanied by the advance of science and the growing power of knowledge. A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age, covering the period from 1500 to 1680, explores the war of jurisdictions and the slow and contested emergence of national legal traditions in continental Europe and in Britannia. Most particularly, the chapters examine the European quality of the Western legal traditions and seek to link the political project of Anglican common law, the mos britannicus, to its classical European language and context.Drawing upon a wealth of textual and visual sources, A Cultural History of Law in the Early Modern Age presents essays that examine key cultural case studies of the period on the themes of justice, constitution, codes, agreements, arguments, property and possession, wrongs, and the legal profession.

Los estudios recogidos en este volumen han sido pensados y escritos en el curso de ocho años, desde el 73 hasta hoy. Creo poder decir que en esta elección de ponerlos juntos no ha habido, por lo menos subjetivamente, ninguna coquetería. Ha sido la sensación de —por lo demás nacida, casi por casualidad, al hilo de una experiencia didáctica— que estas pequeñas investigaciones, venidas una a una, sin ningún plan preestablecido, al releerlas hoy, retrospectivamente, se destejen juntas según una trama y un proyecto unitario, en suma, como capítulos de un solo libro. Un libro, ciertamente, provisional e incompleto. Pero (a mí me lo parece) elaborado de modo no caduco en tomo a un diseño, una indicación, que busca llegar ya a un plano de trabajo, y que de cualquier modo logra ya ser un paradigma interpretativo. Aldo Schiavone

Este libro recoge dos estudios histórico-jurídicos que reflexionan sobre la doctrina jurídica europea de la Edad Moderna. En el primero, se analiza la forma de las disposiciones jurídicas (acto, costumbre y uso, juicio y sentencia, ius commune, ley y estatuto, privilegio) a partir de los lugares paralelos localizados en los brocardos o máximas jurídicas que forman parte de la construcción de los esmerados índices de las obras (comentarios, tratados, resoluciones, consejos, etc.) de la literatura jurídica del siglo XVI, así como de las frecuentes antinomias que brindan variaciones y alternativas continuas en el desarrollo de la argumentación jurídica. En el segundo, con una amplia lectura de la literatura jurídica europea entre los siglos XVI y XVIII, se examina la teoría del acto jurídico desde su dimensión temporal, en el ámbito del Derecho criminal, con la finalidad de la comprensión de los efectos de la frecuencia de los actos, de la formación de la costumbre de delinquir, de la reiteración del acto delictivo, sus formas y el contraste de la continuidad delictiva.

Jurisprudence is a classic work by James Mill, the father of John Stuart Mill. A table of contents is included. Das E-Book Jurisprudence wird angeboten von Charles River Editors und wurde mit folgenden Begriffen kategorisiert: john stuart mill; political; free

This second volume of ReConFort, published open access, addresses the decisive role of constitutional normativity, and focuses on discourses concerning the legal role of constitutional norms. Taken together with ReConFort I (National Sovereignty), it calls for an innovative reassessment of constitutional history drawing on key categories to convey the legal nature of the constitution itself (national sovereignty, precedence, justiciability of power, judiciary as constituted power).In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, constitutional normativity began to complete the legal fixation of the entire political order. This juridification in one constitutional text resulted in a conceptual differentiation from ordinary law, which extends to alterability and justiciability. The early expressions of this ‘new order of the ages'suggest an unprecedented and irremediable break with European legal tradition, be it with British colonial governance or the French ancien régime. In fact, while the shift to constitutions as a hierarchically ‘higher'form of positive law was a revolutionary change, it also drew upon old liberties. The American constitutional discourse, which was itself heavily influenced by British common law, in turn served as an inspiration for a variety of constitutional experiments – from the French Revolution to Napoleon's downfall, in the halls of the Frankfurt Assembly, on the road to a unified Italy, and in the later theoretical discourse of twentieth-century Austria. If the constitution states the legal rules for the law-making process, then its Kelsian primacy is mandatory.Also included in this volume are the French originals and English translations of two vital documents. The first – Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès'Du Jury Constitutionnaire (1795) – highlights an early attempt to reconcile the democratic values of the French Revolution with the pragmatic need to legally protect the Revolution. The second – the 1812 draft of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland – presents the ‘constitutional propaganda'of the Russian Tsar Alexander I to bargain for the support of the Lithuanian and Polish nobility. These documents open new avenues of research into Europe's constitutional history: one replete with diverse contexts and national experiences, but above all an overarching motif of constitutional decisiveness that served to complete the juridification of sovereignty. (www.reconfort.eu)

El verano de 1661, el 17 de agosto, el superintendente de Finanzas del reino de Francia, Nicolás Fouquet, ofreció una gigantesca fiesta para celebrar la inauguración de su maravillosa nueva residencia a las afueras de París: el Vaux-le-Vicomte. El proyecto contó con la participación de tres genios como el arquitecto Louis Le Vau, el paisajista André le Notre y el pintor Charles le Brun. François Vatel dirigió el festejo, Molière escribió una pieza teatral para conmemorar la ocasión y, como es natural, el joven rey Luis XIV se convirtió en el invitado de honor.Pero, en pleno verano, el sol montó en cólera. Ni siquiera cuando la siempre rápida inteligencia de Fouquet captó la dimensión de la ira regia que se abatía sobre él, y reaccionó para ofrecer a su soberano su humilde morada en obsequio como testimonio de su lealtad, le resultó posible evitar su detención y encarcelamiento por corrupción. El rey se incautó de su propiedad, y tomó a su servicio a Le Vau. Le Notre y Le Brun para levantar su propio palacio en Versalles. Y El sol ofuscado de Paul Morand decidió que todos los recursos del Estado y todas las formas del arte debían contribuir a la instalación de una nueva concepción del poder y, por lo tanto, del derecho y de la acción política.Una nueva concepción de las formas institucionales que habría de merecer una preferente atención de la literatura y del cine. Y, con el Gran Siglo francés, el Renacimiento italiano, el Siglo de Oro español, la Inglaterra isabelina, la Ilustración escocesa, la América en construcción… La Edad Moderna, como espacio de gestación de las formas de organización política y jurídica y los sistemas de pensamiento todavía vigentes. Una Era para la transformación científica y el cambio social iluminada por un sol ofuscado.

In the last decade, the changing role of time in society has once again taken centre stage in the academic debate. A prominent, but surely not the only, aspect of this debate hinges on the so-called acceleration of time and its societal consequences. Despite the fact that time is fundamental to the way in which law and politics function, the influence of the contemporary experience of time on law and politics remains underdeveloped. How, for example, does society's structural acceleration impact on justice? Does law actually offer stability and predictability in an ever-changing global world? How can legal and political institutions function in the wake of ever-increasing uncertainty? Both law and politics employ time to order society but they are also limited in what can be effectuated by time. It is this very tension between temporal possibilities and limitations that the contributors to this collection – drawn from different fields of law, as well as from other disciplines – examine.

Este é um livro para todos aqueles a quem interessa pensar o conceito de justiça, suas nuances, seus imperativos e desafios sociais. Nele, tanto os estudiosos do Direito quanto os demais interessados sobre o tema da justiça encontrarão boas vias de estudo sobre as origens míticas e históricas do Direito ocidental, em sua matriz grega. Nesta (re)visitação à cultura'jurídica'da Grécia Antiga, os leitores poderão retornar a uma fonte primaz da racionalidade e das problemáticas que subjazem a tradição de reflexões que o Ocidente fez e faz sobre a justiça, em suas perspectivas teórica e prática. Cada um que se permitir a tal retorno adentrará no universo sociocultural greco-antigo e conhecerá as maneiras pelas quais essa civilização (que também é a nossa) foi forjando seu(s) conceito(s) de justiça, desde o nascedouro de seu imaginário cultural (com as primeiras narrativas míticas sobre as origens dos deuses e dos homens) até o período clássico de sua história, quando em Atenas o mundo viu nascer a filosofia humanística, a democracia e as bases do Direito moderno (com a inauguração do Tribunal do Areópago). Aos que caminharem nesta viagem de volta ao passado, ao menos uma certeza pode ser antecipada enquanto prêmio: esta obra nos prova que um retorno aos antigos gregos tem muito a nos ensinar.

The book is dedicated to the theoretical problems concerning ratio legis. In the contexts of legal interpretation and legal reasoning, the two most important intellectual tools employed by lawyers, ratio legis would seem to offer an extremely powerful argument. Declaring the ratio legis of a statute can lead to a u-turn argumentation throughout the lifespan of the statute itself – in parliament, or in practice during court sessions, when it is tested against the constitution.Though the ratio legis argument is widely used, much about it warrants further investigation. On the general philosophical map there are many overlapping areas that concern different approaches to human rationality and to the problems of practical reasoning. Particular problems with ratio legis arise in connection with different perspectives on legal philosophy and theory, especially in terms of the methods that lawyers use for legal interpretation and argumentation. These problems can be further subdivided into particular aspects of activities undertaken by lawyers and officials who use the ratio legis in their work, and the underlying theories. In short, this book examines what ratio legis is, what it could be, and its practical implications.

After its heyday in the 1970s and 1980s, many wondered whether the law and literature movement would retain vitality. This collection of essays, featuring twenty-two prominent scholars from literature departments as well as law schools, showcases the vibrancy of recent work in the field while highlighting its many new directions. New Directions in Law and Literature furnishes an overview of where the field has been, its recent past, and its potential futures. Some of the essays examine the methodological choices that have affected the field; among these are concern for globalization, the integration of approaches from history and political theory, the application of new theoretical models from affect studies and queer theory, and expansion beyond text to performance and the image. Others grapple with particular intersections between law and literature, whether in copyright law, competing visions of alternatives to marriage, or the role of ornament in the law's construction of racialized bodies. The volume is designed to be a course book that is accessible to undergraduates and law students as well as relevant to academics with an interest in law and the humanities. The essays are simultaneously intended to be introductory and addressed to experts in law and literature. More than any other existing book in the field, New Directions furnishes a guide to the most exciting new work in law and literature while also situating that work within more established debates and conversations.

The Ouija board jury incident of 1994 is one of the most disconcerting in English legal history, possibly (says the author) ‘the nadir of reported juror misbehaviour in the 20th-century'. But, as Professor Jeremy Gans shows, in an era of soundbites it has been distorted by the media whilst even eminent lawyers have sometimes got the story wrong. In this first full-length treatment he emphasises the known facts, the constitutional dilemma of investigating even bizarre jury misbehaviour and how the trial involved one of the most serious murder cases of the decade in which two people were shot in cold blood. Stephen Young's conviction after a re-trial is still claimed to be a miscarriage of justice by some people, as to which Gans puts forward his own ingenious solution. But quite apart from analysing the facts of R v Young, this book is a tour de force on jury misbehaviour in which the author also examines the implications for example of winks and nods, research by jurors, speaking or listening out of turn, going to sleep during the hearing or falling in love with one of the advocates. Amusing at first sight, such events involve deep questions of law, practice and democratic involvement in the Criminal Justice process. Far from being a mere anecdote, the case of the Ouija board jurors, the misconceptions about it and the issues it leads to deserve close study by anyone who is even remotely interested in jury trial. The first full length treatment of an iconic case. Dispels the myths that have built-up around it. Looks at other instances of jury misbehaviour. Shows how the courts and Parliament have wrestled with problems of this kind. A first-rate analysis of a baffling double murder.

Realmente es una oportunidad única cuando dos ilustres hombres de derecho, anclados en una notable base humanística, discurren por los distintos vasos comunicantes de la Comparación jurídica y la teoría del Derecho. El lector no encontrará una simple descripción de instituciones jurídicas más o menos conocidas o la aproximación a sistemas comparados por un simple prurito intelectual, más bien tendrá oportunidad de asistir a la confrontación de instituciones y la racionalidad que las subyace y les da sentido; esto es, a una legítima interpelación de los cimientos últimos que les permite tener validez y eficacia en los distintos ámbitos sociales a los cuales se aplican. Gianmaria Ajani y Michele Graziadei desarrollan magistralmente la relación del Derecho comparado y la historia del Derecho, la vinculación entre Derecho Comparado y Derecho internacional, las fronteras del conocimiento jurídico, El Derecho Privado europeo y el pluralismo lingüístico, entre otros interesantes temas.

La jurisprudence est l'un des phénomènes juridiques les plus problématiques, comme source du droit réel mais non officielle. Ce livre retrace son parcours dans l'histoire de la pensée juridique, longtemps dominée par le légicentrisme. Il s'intéresse également à la difficile identification doctrinale des jugements, arrêts et décisions à portée jurisprudentielle. Il s'attache enfin à la jurisprudentialisation du droit, qui constitue l'une des données les plus remarquables du droit contemporain, ainsi qu'aux critiques que la doctrine adresse à un droit trop abandonné au'gouvernement des juges'.

El presente estudio aborda una temática de relevante interés para cualquier investigador, tanto desde el punto de vista puramente histórico-jurídico, como desde la específica perspectiva de la Filosofía del Derecho, pues trata de determinar el concepto de Derecho comúnmente compartido, durante toda una época, al tiempo que dicho propósito aparece guiado por un empeño claramente ambicioso, pues se pretende alcanzar dicho objetivo a través del análisis de los innumerables discursos de los académicos pronunciados en la Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación a lo largo de todo un siglo, desde mediados del siglo XIX a mediados del siglo XX, época, por demás, convulsa, marcada por multitud de acontecimientos, cuya transcendencia histórica, política y jurídica es incuestionable.Este estudio recupera la profundidad del pensamiento jurídico de los brillantes oradores y académicos de todo un siglo y reivindica desde sus páginas la naturaleza social inherente al Derecho.Para conseguir su objetivo la autora, la doctora María Isabel Lorca –Profesora titular de Filosofía del Derecho de la Universidad de Málaga y Académica Correspondiente de la RAJyL–, ha desenvuelto su actividad investigadora sirviéndose de los fondos documentales y bibliográficos que atesora la Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación de Madrid, de los que da abundante y detallada cuenta a lo largo de las páginas de la exposición de esta monografía.

El presente trabajo es un estudio del Apparatus Super Constitutionibus Curiarum Generalium Cathaloniae del jurisperito gerundense Tomás Mieres. Se ha realizado con la finalidad principal de descubrir la influencia de la Filosofía política y jurídica de Tomás de Aquino en su pensamiento, subrayando además la relación existente entre esta última y la concepción del Derecho que existió en la Roma clásica. Retrata los acontecimientos salientes de la vida del autor enmarcándolos en el contexto del siglo XV en Cataluña que se describe en sus principales rasgos de carácter político, social y jurídico. En su segunda y tercera parte reconstruye la filosofía política y jurídica del gerundense a partir de los comentarios a las temáticas propias de estas áreas del conocimiento filosófico atendiendo al orden seguido por el Doctor angélico en sus obras que tratan el particular de modo más cumplido. La investigación revela a un autor que, habiendo vivido gran parte de su vida en el amanecer de la edad moderna, no deja de ser eminentemente medieval en sus planteamientos y en su metodología y que de pleno derecho puede ubicarse entre los representantes más destacados de esa tradición jurídica medieval de la que forman parte Raymón de Penyafort, Pere Albert, Joan de Socarrats y los homónimos Jaume de Montjüic, Callís, y Marquilles. Su penetrante inteligencia, su tenacidad y su amplia formación le llevaron a comprender y asimilar el mensaje del Aquinate que se encuentra tan presente en el Apparatus que en una ocasión incluso siente la necesidad de aclarar al lector que él es otro Tomás, no el Santo de Aquino: Quae tamen, et omnia dicta nostra pariterque scripta hic, et ubique etiam scribenda subiicio correctioni et determinationi sanctae matris Ecclesiae Romanae, et domini Papae; ego Thomas, non ille sanctus de Aquino. Su aportación original es el haber sabido traducir convenientemente aquel mensaje en una multitud de soluciones jurídicas prácticas que cristalizan en una obra que con razón le ha merecido el calificativo de “cima del derecho catalán”.

Law has been a primary locus and vehicle of contact across human history—as a system of ideas embodied in people and enacted on bodies; and also as a material, textual, and sensory'thing.'This volume analyzes a variety of legal encounters ranging from South Asia to South and Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. The seven essays also explore various material expressions of law that reveal the complexity and intensity of cross-cultural contact in this pivotal era.

La compréhension des grands concepts juridiques contemporains se trouve soumise à la connaissance préalable de leurs origine et évolution historiques. Le présent ouvrage a la particularité de transporter le lecteur dans l'histoire de l'Empire romain afin de lui faire parcourir les grandes évolutions qu'ont subies les systèmes juridiques de l'époque. L'auteur présente et analyse avec dextérité l'héritage légué par le droit romain classique aux systèmes juridiques contemporains.