Judges, Legislators and Professors: Chapters in European Legal History

by R.C. van Caenegem

On the basis of ten concrete examples the author shows by what process and for what historical reasons continental law and common law have come to be so different. In so doing van Caenegem provides a historical introduction to continental law understandable to readers familiar with the common law, and vice-versa. This study is derived from the professor's lectures at Cambridge in 1984-85, in which lawyers from Europe, Great Britain and the United States participated. Judges, Legislators and Professors does not follow the traditional path of describing the development of ideas, but tries a new approach by interpreting legal history as, to a large extent, EEthe result of a power struggle.

Genres: Law

216 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Raoul Charles, Baron Van Caenegem was a Belgian historian and noted expert in the field of European legal history.

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