Judges, Legislators and Professors: Chapters in European Legal History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521340779)

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.

Author: R. C. Van Caenegem
ISBN-10: 0521340772
ISBN-13: 9780521340779
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/25/1987
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d