R. C. van Caenegem (Belgium Universiteit Gent)

Judges, Legislators and Professors

Chapters in European Legal History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Professor van Caenegem shows how and why continental and common law diverge so sharply and reveals the significance of power struggles between the judiciary, legislators and legal scholars. An historical introduction to continental law readily accessible to readers familiar with common law and vice versa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9780521340779
• ISBN-10: 0521340772
• Artikelnr.: 21847961

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Common Law is Different: Ten Illustrations: 1. The ambiguity of the term 'law'
2. Appeal: a recent development
3. English law is a 'seamless web'
4. The rule of exclusion
5. A land without a constitution?
6. The consequences of parliamentary absolutism
7. The haphazard development of criminal law
8. Prosecution and verdict in criminal trials
9. A law uncodified
Jurists are dispensable
Part II. The Mastery of the Law: Judges, Legislators and Professors: 10. Some facts
11. Explanations: the 'national spirit'?
12. Explanations: authoritarian Roman law and democratic England?
13. Explanations: political history
Part III. The Divergent Paths of Common Law and Civil Law: 14. Common law and civil law: the parting of the ways
15. The ways remain separate
16. Which diverged from which?
Part VI. Which is Best, Case Law, Statute Law, Or Book Law: 17. The judges: amateurs and professionals
18. The courts and their creators
19. Codification: a weapon against the judiciary
20. Law professors serve the powers that be
21. Eight criteria of good law.