Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Law |
Grao en Dereito |
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Identifying Data | 2024/25 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Spain in the Historical and Legal Context of Europe | Code | 612G01002 | |||||||||||
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
First and Second Cycle | 1st four-month period |
First | Basic training | 6 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
“SPAIN IN THE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL CONTEXT OF EUROPE” SPAIN AND THE POST-CLASSICAL ROMAN LAW |
Political meaning of the period called Dominate Justinian Features of the post-classical Roman Law |
THE FIRST MEDIEVAL AGE: PER PUGNAM SINE IUSTITIA: AN AGE WITHOUT JURISTS |
The gradual disappearance of the professional jurist Anthologies and Epitomes in the West: Doctrine and Legislation The East: The great legislative compilation of Justinian |
SPAIN DURING THE 7th- 11th CENTURIES |
Oral laws: Custom; the Carolingian Capitularies The presence of the Church Per pugnam sine iustitia |
A NEW AGE: 12th-15th CENTURIES | IUS COMMUNE IN EUROPE: From the feudal World to urban civilization The twelfth- century renaissance and the autonomy of the law. The formation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis and the writings of Irnerius: The rise of Civil Common Law. Gratian and the Decretum: The rise of Canon Common Law The great “codifications” of the Church: The Liber Extra of Gregory IX, the Liber Sextus of Boniface VIII, the Clementinae of Clement V, and the formation of the Corpus Iuris Canonici. Civil Law and Canon Law: The utrumque ius IUS PROPRIUM IN EUROPE. Italy: Communal legislation. Europe outside Italy. The Iberian Peninsula: Fueros, Usatges, an Royal laws; The Siete Partidas. France: Pays de droit coutumier; local laws and royal law; the great Coutumiers. Germany: municipal laws; counts, dukes and princes; the emperor’s laws; the Sachsenspiegel. THE SYSTEM OF THE IUS COMMUNE. Ius commune and Ius proprium as positive law: Hierarchy in the sources. The Ius commune without hierarchy. Major figures: Irnerius Gratian The new science of law The System of the Ius commune and the Corpus Iuris Civilis: Dialectic The System of the Ius commune and the Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Ius proprium Cinus of Pistoia. Bartolus of Saxoferrato THE UNIVERSITY IN EUROPE AND THE IUS COMMUNE. The School of Irnerius and the myth of Bologna. Studying Jurisprudence in terra aliena The growth of schools in European cities. The organization of the academic world. A Different organizational model: The University of Paris Why were Universities so successful? LEGAL SCIENCE The orality of knowledge The Lectura The Glossae The Punctatio librorum The Repetitio The Quaestio disputata |
MODERN AGE | Legal humanism The “Secunda Scholastica” Francisco de Vitoria and the School of Salamanca Hugo Grotius and the doctrine of Natural Law NATIONAL CODIFICATIONS The age of codifications Precedents: The experience of consolidations The theoretical roots of the codifications From the French Revolution to the Napoleonic Code Civil Napoleonic Codes and National Codes in Europe Germany: Historical School of Law Savigny`s thought The Pandectists |
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