Scheda completa

1. The functions of law - 2. Law and religion - 3. The process of juridification of Western society - 4. Law and technology - 5. Western law and the law of surviving societies - 6. Mute law - 7. Animal law

1. The Roman invention of law - 2. Classical Roman law and the Justinian compilation - 3. The medieval renaissance of Roman law - 4. The continental ius commune and the English common law - 5. The advent of national law (ius patrium) and the ideal of its codification

1. Statism and nationalism of contemporary Western laws - 2. The establishment of the Westphalian paradigm: the split of national and international law - 3. Comparative law - 4. Private international law - 5. Uniform law

1. The legacy of Roman law in Europe - 2. The division between civil law and common law traditions - 3. Civil law jurisdictions - 4. Common law jurisdictions - 5. Mixed jurisdictions

1. Two (incompatible?) views of law - 2. Natural law and human reason - 3. Positive law and political might - 4. The dilemma of unjust law - 5. The renaissance of natural law after World War II

1. The legal rules - 2. The legal systems - 3. The principles of law

1. The divide of private law and public law - 2. Commercial law and its relationship with the rest of private law - 3. The legislature and the judiciary - 4. Legal education and legal scholarship - 5. Law and economics (and other interdisciplinary legal studies)

1. European Union law (acquis communautaire) - 2. The European common core of national private laws (acquis commune) - 3. The perspective of a European codification of private law

1. The legal relevance of natural events and human actions - 2. The German tripartite taxonomy of legal facts, heteronomous legal acts, and autonomous legal acts - 3. The French bipartite taxonomy of legal facts and legal acts - 4. The eclectic Italian taxonomy of legal facts and legal acts - 5. The European taxonomy and the centrality of legal acts in private law

1. Legal positions and legal relations - 2. Simple positions of ‘may do’: freedoms (or privileges or liberties) - 3. Simple positions of ‘can do’: powers (and power-rights) - 4. (Subjective) rights - 5. Delayed exercise of rights

1. Legal personhood - 2. Capacity to act