BOOK REVIEW: Paul BRAND on Guido ROSSI (ed.), Authorities in Early Modern Law Courts (Forum Historiae Iuris, 9 JUN 2022) (OPEN ACCESS)

 

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First sentence:

This volume contains papers from a conference held at the Centre for Legal History in the School of Law in the University of Edinburgh in the summer of 2018. Guido Rossi, the main organiser hopes (as he suggests in his introduction) that these papers will help to suggest and chart a new direction for the legal history of Early Modern Europe and one which will use surviving evidence (both printed and manuscript) from the superior courts of different jurisdictions to demonstrate the role played by the various different kinds of legal authority (the medieval jus commune and its commentators, local customs and statutes and the prior judgments of those courts themselves) as legal foundation for their judgments and the ways in which the relative importance of each of these sources in each of these jurisdictions changed over time.

Read more here (DOI 10.26032/fhi-2022-007).