Roman Law in European History

• Part I. Introduction; Part II. Roman Law in Antiquity: 1. The law of the Twelve Tables; 2. Legal development by interpretation; 3. The praetor and the control of remedies; 4. The ius gentium and the advent of jurists; 5. The Empire and the law; 6. The jurists in the classical period; 7. The ordering of the law; 8. The culmination of classical jurisprudence; 9. The division of the empire; 10. Post-classical law and procedure; 11. The decline of legal science; 12. The end of the Western empire; 13. Justinian and the Corpus iuris; Part III. The Revival of Justinian's Law: 14. Roman law and Germanic law in the West; 15. Church and empire; 16. The rediscovery of the Digest; 17. The civil law glossolators; 18. Civil law and canon law; 19. The attraction of the Bologna studium; 20. The new learning outside Italy; 21. Applied civil law: legal procedure; 22. Applied civil law: legislative power; 23. Civil law and custom; 24. Civil law and local laws in the thirteenth century; 25. The studium of Orleans; Part IV. Roman Law and the Nation State: 26. The commentators; 27. The impact of humanism; 28. Humanism and the civil law; 29. The civil law becomes a science; 30. The ordering of the customary law; 31. The Bartolist reaction; 32. The reception of Roman law; 33. The reception in Germany; 34. Court practice as a source of law; 35. Civil law and natural law; 36. Civil law and international law; 37. Theory and practice in the Netherlands; Part V. Roman Law and Codification: 38. Roman law and national laws; 39. The mature natural law; 40. The codification movement; 41. Early codifications in Germany and Austria; 42. Pothier and the French Civil Code; 43. The German historical school; 44. Pandect-science and the German Civil Code; 45. Nineteenth-century legal science outside Germany; 46. Roman law in the twentieth century.

'In Roman Law in European History, a master gives his readers both an introduction to the law of ancient Rome and an account of how that law lived on, well after the demise of the ancient society. For students and for scholarly beginners, this short book is an excellent way to learn the story and to understand its importance. … Although it is a summary that is mindful of the uninitiated, this small book manages not to sacrifice the rigorous or the scholarly.' David V. Snyder, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University