Swiss Legal History

René Pahud de Mortanges is Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he teaches legal history, state-religion relation-ships, religious laws and constitutional law. He also serves as Director of the Institute of Law and Religion, and as Co-Director of the Center of Islam and Society, both at the University of Fribourg, and is Research Fellow at Renmin University in Bejing and Guest Professor at ECUPL in Shanghai. He is editor of the collections Freiburger Veröffentlichungen zum Religionsrecht and Europäische Rechts- und Regionalgeschichte.

• Part 1: The Roman and Frankish Period - 1 Celts and Romans - 2 Germans, Franks, and their Law - Part 2: The Confederation - 3 Formation and Consolidation of the Confederation - 4 The internal structure of the cantons - 5 Development of Law - 6 The administration of justice - 7 The beginnings of jurisprudence - Part 3: The Modern Era - 8 Constitutional development in the 19th and 20th - Centuries - 9 Legislation of the Helvetic Republic in the 19th century - 10 National legal unification - 11 New Issues in Legal Policy and Legislation