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“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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