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07 November 2024
CONFERENCE: Legal Unification through Case Law? (Regensburg: University of Regensburg, Institute for East European Law, 21 - 22 NOV 2024)
05 July 2024
CONFERENCE: Legal Unification through Case Law? (Regensburg: University of Regensburg, Institute for East European Law, 21 - 22 NOV 2024)
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08 April 2022
BOOK : David LEVESLEY D'AVRAY, Papal Jurisprudence, 385–1234 Social Origins and Medieval Reception of Canon Law, ( Cambridge University Press, 2022), ISBN : 978-1-1084-7300-2, pp.300, 75£
(Source : Cambridge University Press)
A propos de l'ouvrage :
Why did bishops turn to the papacy for advice in late Antiquity? And what does the reception of these decretals reveal about the legal and religious culture of the mid-thirteenth century? This interpretative volume seeks to explain the first decretal age of late antiquity, placing the increased demand for papal jurisprudence – long before it exerted its influence through religious fear – within its social broad context. D. L. d'Avray then traces the reception of this jurisprudence through to the mid-thirteenth century, and the post-Gratian decretal age. Along the way he explores the role of Charlemagne and 'Pseudo-Isidore', which included many genuine early decretals alongside forged ones. Similarities between the Latin world c. 400 and c. 1200 thus help explain parallels between the two decretal ages. This book also analyses decretals from both ages in chapters on pagan marriages, clerics in minor orders, and episcopal elections. For both ages the relation between canon law and other religious genres is elucidated, demonstrating many fascinating parallels and connections.
A propos de l'auteur :
David LEVESLEY D'AVRAY est professeur émérite au sein de l'université de Londres.
Table des matières :
Introduction
1. Transformations and long-term explanations
2. The Christian Roman empire, c. 400
3. c. 400: practical complexities and uncertainties
4. c. 400: uncertainty about grace
5. Papal rulings and ritual
6. Hierarchies
7. Clerical status and monks
8. Returning heretics
9. Pelagianism and the papacy
10. Leo I
11. Post-imperial syntheses
12. Early papal laws in the barbarian west
13. Carolingian culture and its legacy
14. 1050–1150
15. Theology and law
16. c. 400 and c. 1200: complexity, conversion and bigamia
17. Clerics in minor orders
18. Choosing bishops
19. Overall conclusions
Appendix A. Leo I
Appendix B. Gelasius
Appendix C. Gloss II (Johannes Teutonicus and Bartholomaeus Brixiensis) on Gratian and the liber extra
Appendix D. Conceptual sources.
14 February 2022
BOOK: Pierre-Nicolas BARENOT, Les recueils de jurisprudence, miroirs de la pensée juridique française (1789-1914) [Bibliothèque d'histoire du droit et droit romain; 39] (Paris: LGDJ, 2022), ISBN 978-2-275-08850-1, € 70
(image source: LGDJ)
Abstract:
Pionniers des études jurisprudentielles contemporaines, fondateurs des plus célèbres maisons d'édition juridique françaises, inventeurs de nouveaux genres littéraires et doctrinaux, les arrêtistes du XIXe siècle demeurent encore largement méconnus. Au sein de leurs recueils de jurisprudence, Jean-Baptiste Sirey, Désiré Dalloz et leurs nombreux collaborateurs, concurrents et successeurs, ont pourtant été des acteurs à part entière d'une pensée juridique française trop souvent réduite aux seuls auteurs de la doctrine. Entre théorie et pratique, l'« arrêtisme » contemporain a ainsi formé, de la Révolution jusqu'aux années 1870, un mouvement majeur de la littérature et de la pensée juridiques. Sur cette période, arrêtistes et commentateurs de la doctrine se sont en effet âprement affrontés sur le terrain épistémique et éditorial, opposant travaux et discours sur la jurisprudence tout en luttant pour le monopole des études jurisprudentielles. À partir des années 1880 toutefois, l'arrivée massive des universitaires au sein des recueils de jurisprudence va marquer la fin de l'arrêtisme des praticiens. À la Belle Époque, les auteurs de l'« École scientifique » qui entendent renouveler l'étude et la science du droit s'emparent à leur tour activement de la jurisprudence ; présenté comme un rapprochement salvateur entre l'École et le Palais, le « projet jurisprudentiel » des professeurs va toutefois contribuer à détacher les recueils d'arrêts de la culture praticienne dont ils étaient originellement issus. Il ressort de cette étude une relecture de l'histoire intellectuelle des recueils d'arrêts et des arrêtistes, dont l'historiographie classique a brossé un portrait partiel, sinon partial.
On the author:
Pierre-Nicolas BARENOT est maître de conférences à l'Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne.
(read more here)
28 April 2015
BOOK: Richard HELMHOLZ, Natural Law in Court (Harvard UP, 2015, May 2015), 288 p. ISBN 9780674504585, € 40,50
(image source: Harvard UP)
Prof. dr. dr. h.c. Richard Helmholz (Chicago), member of this Society's Board of Advisors since 2011, publishes a new work over at Harvard University Press, next month.
Abstract:
The theory of natural law grounds human laws in the universal truths of God’s creation. Until very recently, lawyers in the Western tradition studied natural law as part of their training, and the task of the judicial system was to put its tenets into concrete form, building an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. Although much has been written about natural law in theory, surprisingly little has been said about how it has shaped legal practice. Natural Law in Court asks how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in England, Europe, and the United States, from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the American Civil War.Table of contents:
R. H. Helmholz sees a remarkable consistency in how English, Continental, and early American jurisprudence understood and applied natural law in cases ranging from family law and inheritance to criminal and commercial law. Despite differences in their judicial systems, natural law was treated across the board as the source of positive law, not its rival. The idea that no person should be condemned without a day in court, or that penalties should be proportional to the crime committed, or that self-preservation confers the right to protect oneself against attacks are valuable legal rules that originate in natural law. From a historical perspective, Helmholz concludes, natural law has advanced the cause of justice.
Introduction
1. Legal Education in Continental Europe
2. The Law of Nature in European Courts
3. Legal Education in England
4. The Law of Nature in English Courts
5. Legal Education in the United States
6. The Law of Nature in American Courts
Conclusion
(source: Legal History Blog)
10 December 2012
NOTICE: ARISTEC Conference on case law yesterday and today (RomaTre University, 22-23 February 2013)
What: ARISTEC Conference: Casistica e giurisprudenza. Giornate in onore di M. J. Garcia GarridoWhere: RomaTre University, Law Faculty, Via Ostiense 161, Sala delle lauree
When: 22-23 February 2013
To read the program click here
Source: http://nomodos.blogspot.it/2012/12/univ-roma-3-fac-di-giurisprudenza.html#more.
26 July 2012
NOTICE: Australasian Colonial Legal History Library
The Australasian Colonial Legal History Library is now online! For more information read the article "Digitising and Searching Australasian Colonial Legal History" by G. Greenleaf, P. Chung, A. Mowbray and B. Salter. Abstract:
Australasia has a rich and complex legal history since the first European settlement, and our knowledge of legal practice and precedent in the colonies of Australasia is still developing. The Australasian Colonial Legal History Library project is an ARC-funded project being carried out by the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) since January 2012 with input from 18 legal historians from Universities across Australia. Cooperation with other parties who have already built invaluable and pioneering online resources for Australasian colonial law is an essential part of the project.
AustLII is a free access online service which has operated since 1995 as a joint facility provided by UNSW and UTS Law Faculties , and now provides over 500 databases, with usage of over 700,000 page accesses per day. The Colonial Legal History Library project is therefore being built within a large and mature research infrastructure, and this presents challenges as well as advantages. In particular, many of the AustLII databases cover the whole period from the formation of a colony to the present, so the databases for this Library have to be ‘virtual’ databases extracted from this larger corpus.
The paper explains the construction, content and features of the first version of the Library, which as of July 2012 contains 12 databases including one case law database from each of the seven colonies (including New Zealand), some of which are ‘recovered’ cases from newspaper reports, the complete annual legislation to 1900 from three of the colonies, plus legal scholarship concerning the colonial era. These databases provide over 20,000 documents so far, and the Victorian Government Gazette 1851-1900 another 200,000. The Library also includes the LawCite citator, which allows the subsequent citation history of any colonial case to be tracked, including if cited by courts outside Australasia.
The medium term aim of this part of the ARC project (which extends to 1950 in its full scope) is to include all legislation, reported cases, and cases which can be ‘recovered’, from the inception of each colony to 1900. Scholarship (old and new) and key source materials are also being added, as budgets permit. We hope that the Library will be a leader in the creation of legal history resources from the colonial era.
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