BOOK: Ilya A. KOTLYAR (ed.), Regulae Iuris in the Medieval and Modern Age. Essential Stability v. Evolving Contexts [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Michelle MCKINLEY, Matthew C. MIROW & R.C. VAN RHEE; vol. 78] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2026), ISBN 978-90-04-73609-2, € 160,93

 

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Abstract:

This volume is the first anthology to address the topic of the regulae iuris, or maxims of law, from a uniform methodological point of view. It approaches the regulae iuris as a dynamic system with an ever-evolving structure. The contributors of this volume, being among the leading experts in the field, look at the regulae both in their essence and in their expanding interrelationships, taking account of their changing social and cultural contexts. This volume places the crystallisation and evolution of legal rules within a history of ideas, spanning a wide historical period and going beyond the narrow confines of the history of legal thought.

Contributors:

Ilya A. Kotlyar, Adolfo Giuliani, Maria Kola, David Deroussin, Piotr Alexandrowicz, Ger Coffey, Harry Dondorp, Emanuel G.D. van Dongen, and James R. Gordley.

On the editor:

University of Edinburgh, is an independent researcher who has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Tilburg and Ghent. His primary research interest lies in the mutual interaction of legal doctrine and legal practice in European legal history, particularly in the areas of the law of succession and the law of obligations. 

Read more here: DOI  10.1163/9789004736092.