Indice
Foreword
1. Law and society
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 laws of surviving societies - 6. Mute law - 7. Animal law
2. The Western legal tradition
1. The Roman invention of law - 2. Classical Roman law and the Justinian compilation - 3. The medieval renaissance of Roman law and the beginning of the Western legal tradition - 4. The continental ius commune ad the English common law - 4.1. The ius commune of the Middle Ages: the Corpus iuris civilis and the Corpus iuris canonici - 4.2. The English common law - 5. The advent of national law (ius patrium) and the ideal of its codification
3. Law and the state
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 - 3.1. Concept and historical development - 3.2. Aims and methods - 4. Private international law - 5. Uniform law
4. Civil law and common law jurisdictions
1. The legacy of Roman law in Europe - 2. The divide of civil law and common law traditions - 3. Civil law jurisdictions - 4. National codifications of private law between 19th and 20th century - 4.1. The French Code civil des Français (or Code Napoléon) - 4.2. The German Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) - 4.3. The Italian Codice civile of 1942 - 5. Common law jurisdictions - 6. Mixed jurisdictions
5. Law and justice
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
6. Rules, principles, legal systems
1. The rules - 1.1. The conditional structure of rules - 1.2. The scope of rules: their generality and abstractness - 1.3. Mandatory and default rules - 2. The legal systems - 2.1. The sources of law - 2.2. The gaps (lacunae) and the devices to fill them - 2.3. The conflicts of norms (antinomies) and the criteria to settle them - 3. The principles of law
7. European Law
1. The European Union’s law (acquis communautaire) - 1.1. Concept and history - 1.2. The supremacy (precedence) of the European Union’s law upon the Member States’ laws - 1.3. The state liability for infringement of the European Union’s law - 2. The European common core of national private laws (acquis commune) - 2.1. Concept and history - 2.2. European restatements and model laws regarding contracts - 2.3. European restatements and model laws regarding other areas of private law
8. Private law and its sources
1. The traditional divide of private and public law - 2. The constitutional project of a (European) ‘society based on private law’ (Privatrechtsgesellschaft) - 3. The sources of national law - 3.1. Civil law jurisdictions - 3.2. Common law jurisdictions - 4. The formation of commercial law and its relationship with in the rest of private law - 5. The sources of international law - 6. The sources of the European union law - 6.1. At the primary level - 6.2. At the secondary level - 6.3. The prospective of a European codification of private law
9. Legal concepts and legal studies
1. Begriffsjurisprudenz and Interessenjurisprudenz - 1.1. École de l’éxegèse and libre recherche scientifique - 2. American classicism - 3. American legal realism - 4. Interdisciplinary methods: Law and Economics
10. Juridical facts and juridical acts
1. The legal relevance of natural events and human behaviors - 2. The German tripartite taxonomy of juridical facts, juridical acts and legal transactions - 3. The French bipartite taxonomy of juridical facts and juridical acts - 4. The Italian eclectic taxonomy of juridical facts and juridical acts - 5. The international taxonomy and the centrality of legal transactions (or juridical acts) in private law
11. Rights and duties
1. The concept of juridical positions - 2. The concept of legal relations - 3. The positions of ‘can do’: powers (and power-rights) - 4. The positions of ‘may do’: privileges (or freedoms) and licenses - 5. The concept and classification of the (subjective) rights - 5.1. Relative rights (or rights in personam) - 5.2. Absolute rights (or rights in rem) - 6. Prescription (statutes of limitation) and statutes of repose (or nonclaim statutes)
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