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The culture of the ius commune has been a unifying element of European and Western legal civilization. This volume discusses the expansion and changes of ius commune in three significant corners of Europe, which in the classical narrative either totally or partially were left out of the picture: England, Scandinavia, and Venice.
Sommario
INTRODUCTION 1. Borders of
ius commune:
ius commune at the Borders
Dolores Freda, Mario Piccinini, Heikki Pihlajamäki, and Chiara Maria Valsecchi PART I: IUS COMMUNE AND VENICE 2. Lawyers in Venice: A Curious Business
Silvia Gasparini 3. "
Negari tamen non potest Venetos ius civile romanorum colere et venerari": Venetian Law and
ius commune between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Claudia Passarella 4. Students, Graduates, or "Tourists": Scholars from across the Borders in Padua in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries
Donato Gallo 5. Venetian Law and
ius commune: The Origins of a Controversy
Alfredo Viggiano PART II: IUS COMMUNE AND ENGLAND 6. The Invisible Border between
ius commune and Common Law: Traditional Interpretations and New Prospects
Dolores Freda 7. Legal Pluralism in the Law Courts of Early-Modern England
John Baker 8. Roman Law in Sixteenth-Century England: Professor Thomas Smith
David Ibbetson 9. Common Lawyers and Civilian Lawyers in England: Barriers and Connections
R. H. Helmholz 10. Gerard Malynes and the Ancient Law-Merchant: A View on the
ius commune from the Borders
Stefania Gialdroni PART III: IUS COMMUNE AND SCANDINAVIA 11.
Ius commune at the Merchant Courts of the Hanse Kontor in Bergen?
Sören Koch 12. The Emergence of the Profession of Procurators in Early Modern Denmark
Per Andersen 13. Adjusting the
ius commune: The Swedish Legal Procedure in the Early Modern Period
Heikki Pihlajamäki 14. The Reception of the
ius commune through German Law in Reformation Sweden (ca. 1530-1610): Torture, Police and Crime
Mia Korpiola EPILOGUE 15. Re-reading Arthur Duck:
Ius commune and Insular Exceptionalism
Mario Piccinini and Chiara Valsecchi
Info autore
Dolores Freda is Professor of Legal History in the University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy.
Mario Piccinini has been Professor of Legal History at the University of Padua and is currently Senior Scholar at the same institution.
Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History and currently Academy Professor in the University of Helsinki
Chiara Maria Valsecchi is tenured Professor of Medieval and Modern Legal History in the University of Padua.
