Roman Law and the Idea of EuropeKaius Tuori, Heta Björklund This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the European Research Council. Roman law is widely considered to be the foundation of European legal culture and an inherent source of unity within European law. Roman Law and the Idea of Europe explores the emergence of this idea of Roman law as an idealized shared heritage, tracing its origins among exiled German scholars in Britain during the Nazi regime. The book follows the spread and influence of these ideas in Europe after the war as part of the larger enthusiasm for European unity. It argues that the rise of the importance of Roman law was a reaction against the crisis of jurisprudence in the face of Nazi ideas of racial and ultranationalistic law, leading to the establishment of the idea of Europe founded on shared legal principles. With contributions from leading academics in the field as well as established younger scholars, this volume will be of immense interests to anyone studying intellectual history, legal history, political history and Roman law in the context of Europe. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Impact of Exile on Law and Legal Science 193464 | 15 |
Exiled Romanists between Traditions Pringsheim Schulz and Daube | 35 |
Francis de Zulueta 18781958 An Oxford Roman Lawyer between Totalitarianisms | 53 |
Autonomy and Authority The Image of the Roman Jurists in Schulz and Wieacker | 73 |
Roman Law after 1917 Exile Statelessness and the Search for Byzantium in the Work of Mikhail von Taube | 93 |
The Denaturalization of Nordic Law Germanic Law and the Reception of Roman Law | 113 |
The Idea of Rome Political Fascism and Fascist Roman Law | 127 |
The Arduous Path to Recover a Common European Legal Culture Paul Koschaker 193751 | 159 |
The Weakening of Judgement Johan Huizinga 18721945 and the Crisis of the Western Legal Tradition | 181 |
Roman Law as Wisdom Justice and Truth Honour and Disappointment in Franz Wieackers Ideas on Roman Law | 201 |
Conceptions of Roman Law in Scots Law 190060 | 221 |
The Search for Authenticity and Singularity in European National History Writing 1800 to the Present | 239 |
A Genealogy of Crisis Europes Legal Legacy and Ordoliberalism | 261 |
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Byzantium Bona fides between Rome and TwentiethCentury Germany | 145 |
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