Legal History from a European Perspective
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This podcast course is meant as a tool to help to improve the quality of teaching and learning legal history. Recorded by Emanuele Conte, it has been enriched thanks to the research group of legal historians based at the University of St Andrews and led by John Hudson.
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
On the differences between the two streams of the German Historical School: the Pandectists and the Germanists. The example of possession: the Roman concept and Albrecht's German alternative to it, the Gewere ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
The other stream of the Historical School: the Germanists and their focus on ancient German law. The parallel between the search for original legal ideas and the one for German literature: the task of the brothers Grimm. The importance of community in German tradition ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
A presentation of the nineteenth-century German model: the impossibility to adopt a generally shared codification, Savigny’s claim for the supremacy of the “Volksgeist”, the adoption of Roman institutes of private law by the Germans and the new stream of “Pandectists ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
The situation in the United States of America analysed by Alexis de Tocqueville, the influence of France model in Europe and the new-born “Historical School” in Germany ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
This podcast analyses how France has been a model for the whole Europe. Spain, Portugal, Italy, later Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland: all adopted the model of a similar codification ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
Napoleon’s reform of legal studies: the study of the Civil Code in schools. The birth of the École de l’Exégèse and the triumph and the defeat of the Code: the abrogation of other concurrent sources but the need for a doctrinal interpretation. Other Codes issued by Napoleon in the first years of 19th century ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
This episode explains how the French Civil Code had the ambition to reduce the role of the judge to a passive force, a "mere mouth of the law", and how this attempt was doomed to fail. ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
The Code Napoleon: was it clear, rational and straightforward as it was meant to be? What differentiates it from other codes? What significant innovations did it accomplish ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
This episode analyses the connection between absolutism and codification, presenting the Tuscan Criminal Code and the Prussian Civil Code as examples of a power strong enough to impose a new codification to the nation without a revolution ..read more
Legal History from a European Perspective
1y ago
This podcast deals with the wars in Europe during the 19th century. It is mainly focused on French military history during the Napoleonic wars and the strength of Napoleon’s army ..read more