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Informationen zum Autor John W. Cairns is Professor of Civil Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include law and the Enlightenment, the history of Scots law, codification in Louisiana, and law and slavery. He has published two collections of essays in the Edinburgh Studies in Law series: Law, Lawyers, and Humanism: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 1 and Enlightenment, Legal Education, and Critique: Selected Essays on the History of Scots Law, Volume 2 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). He is the co-editor, with Paul J. du Plessis, of The Creation of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) and Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses predominantly on the multifaceted and complex set of relationships between law and society in a historical context. Paul is an experienced editor and author. He is co-editor of the following publications: The Making of the Ius Commune: From Casus to Regula (EUP, 2010), Beyond Dogmatics: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2007), Reassessing Legal Humanism and Its Claims (EUP, 2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society (OUP, 2016). He is also editor of New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World (EUP, 2013), Cicero's Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic (EUP, 2016) and Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law (OUP, 2015). Klappentext This book is concerned with the transformation of Roman legal rules into the 'common law' of Western Europe in the period 1100-1400. In the space of three centuries these rules, collected in the sixth-century compilation produced by order of the Emperor Justinian, were comprehensively analysed and transformed by successive generations of medieval Italian and French jurists into the bedrock of Western European law. Through a series of chapters, a number of distinguished scholars survey the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by these jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe.John W. Cairns is Professor of Legal History, Edinburgh University.Paul J. du Plessis is Lecturer in Law, Edinburgh University. Zusammenfassung This book surveys the traditional classifications of private law to establish the cognitive techniques used by medieval Italian and French jurists to transform Roman law into the ius commune of Western Europe. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Themes and Context (Cairns and Du Plessis); 1. An Introduction to the Interpretation of Legal Technicalities (Bezemer); 2. The Citation and the Ius Commune (Helmholz); 3. Medieval Family Law (Waelkens); 4. Legal Reasoning in Contract and Delict (Gordley); 5. The Buyer's Remedy for Latent Defects (Hallebeek); 6. Commercial Law (Ernst); 7. The Law of Unjustified Enrichment (Schrage/Dondorp); 8. The Law of Succession (Ryan); 9. The Roman Law of Property and the Reality of the Middle Ages (Rüfner); 10. Fault-lines between contract and property in the medieval law of pledge (Du Plessis); 11. Malicious litigation and the rise of the legal profession (Brundage)....
