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The Reception Of Canon Law And Civil Law In The Common Law Courts Before 1600, David J. Seipp
The Reception Of Canon Law And Civil Law In The Common Law Courts Before 1600, David J. Seipp
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English common law practitioners and judges borrowed much of the conc structure for their body of legal knowledge from the legal culture of continen Europe over the centuries. Their surviving writings show a marked increa the use of Roman legal classifications in the century before 1600: public private, criminal and civil, real and personal, property and possession, con and delict, among other examples. Those who perpetuated the learning of English royal courts in the sixteenth century had begun fitting it in framework borrowed from the two great bodies of 'learned law' taught in universities of Europe: civil (Roman) law and …
Columbia University And A New European Law Chair, George A. Bermann
Columbia University And A New European Law Chair, George A. Bermann
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As we move toward the end of the century, we become increasingly aware of the importance of enriching the law school's opportunities for study and research in the international and comparative law fields. While we have always taken a geographically broad view of the foreign systems worthy of study and research, and have the most distinguished international and foreign curriculum in the country, we regard European law and legal institutions as of unequaled importance at this stage of the Law School's academic development. The rise of the European Community, of a still larger European economic arena, and of new legal …