91 episodes
Legal History from a European Perspective CLCLCL
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This podcast course is meant as a tool to help to improve the quality of the teaching and learning legal history.
Recorded by Emanuele Conte, it has been enriched thanks to the research group of legal historians based at the University of St Andrews and led by John Hudson.
The collection is meant to be open to external collaboration, as a work in permanent progress. Teachers and students wanting to suggest more podcasts, topics to deal with, issues to be clarified, and discussions of specific points to be added to the collection can write to emanueleconte@gmail.com.
Music by Piero Conte ©2021
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LH0930 Germanists and Gewere
On the differences between the two streams of the German Historical School: the Pandectists and the Germanists. The example of possession: the Roman concept and Albrecht's German alternative to it, the Gewere.
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LH0920 The Germanists
The other stream of the Historical School: the Germanists and their focus on ancient German law. The parallel between the search for original legal ideas and the one for German literature: the task of the brothers Grimm. The importance of community in German tradition.
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LH0910 Savigny and the Historical School
A presentation of the nineteenth-century German model: the impossibility to adopt a generally shared codification, Savigny’s claim for the supremacy of the “Volksgeist”, the adoption of Roman institutes of private law by the Germans and the new stream of “Pandectists”.
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LH0900 Introduction to the 19th Century
The situation in the United States of America analysed by Alexis de Tocqueville, the influence of France model in Europe and the new-born “Historical School” in Germany.
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LH0860 France as a Model
This podcast analyses how France has been a model for the whole Europe. Spain, Portugal, Italy, later Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland: all adopted the model of a similar codification.
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LH0850 Jurisprudence and Codification
Napoleon’s reform of legal studies: the study of the Civil Code in schools. The birth of the École de l’Exégèse and the triumph and the defeat of the Code: the abrogation of other concurrent sources but the need for a doctrinal interpretation. Other Codes issued by Napoleon in the first years of 19th century.