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Comparative Legal Tradition Course Overview
This course traces the comparative historical development of
both private and public law, from the oldest legal civilizations (cuneiform
and Egyptian law), up to ancient, medieval and modern legal traditions. The
major objective is to enable a proper and in-depth understanding of the
dynamic of earlier and contemporary legal systems, based upon the constant
interaction with the society and other legal systems. This goal could be
reached only through a deep and historical insight in the complex process of
lawmaking and the evolution of law. Along with the macro-comparative
approach, this course analyses specific significant legal notions and
institutions, developing and changing gradually through the course of time.
One can properly interpret them today only through recognizing their compound
historical legal background. This is why legal history and the comparative
method are to be used as inescapable tools in proper interpretation and
understanding of present-day legal systems. Otherwise, they would have been
viewed in a vacuum and as non-dynamic, petrified legal beings, without their
own past and future, engendering a simplified and false image of law. This course stresses, in particular, the European legal
traditions and major legal families being born in However, particular attention in this course is paid to the
consequences of different legal traditions emerging in the modern legal
systems and in their mutual connections. A particular place in the course is
reserved for the American legal and political tradition. It is how common law
and civil law traditions are viewed comparatively, as well as differences and
similarities between their own constituting elements (such as the English and
American, or German and French legal traditions). In that context a number of
modern civil codifications are focused (particularly French Code Civil,
Austrian, German and Swiss Civil Codes, etc.), as well as historical
development and traditions of modern political institutions as of a framework
for the development of legal systems (particularly in |
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