The Jurists

NOTE EDITORE

The book is an intellectual history of the work of Western jurists from ancient Rome to the present. It discusses the Roman jurists, the medieval civilians and canon lawyers, the late scholastics, the natural law schools of the 17th and 18th centuries, the positivism and conceptualism of the 19th century and its influence on common law, and the reaction against conceptualism since the late 19th century. Rarely have jurists worked alone. Rather, they have worked in schools, each of which pursued a different project. The projects of the jurists had one element in common: they were attempts to understand and explain the law. Commitment to that project defines the work of a jurist and distinguishes it from the work of others who take part in fashioning and applying the law. Yet the project of each school of jurists had goals and methods of its own. By identifying them, this study shows how the jurists themselves understood their work and how these goals and methods shaped and limited what each school could achieve.

SOMMARIO

1 - Ius civile: The Roman jurists2 - Ius commune: The medieval jurists3 - Ius et iustitia: The late scholastics4 - De iure civile in artem redigendo: The humanist ideal5 - Ius naturae et gentium: The jusnaturalists6 - Droit civil français: The French altenative7 - Usus modernus pandectarum: The German-Dutch alternative8 - Mos geometricus: The coming of rationalism9 - Novus ordo: Positivism and conceptualism10 - Ubinam gentium sumus: After positivism and conceptualism

AUTORE

Professor James Gordley is W.R. Irby Professor of Law at Tulane Law School since 2007. He has been the author of many titles including; The Development of Liability between Neighbours, ed. (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Foundations of Private Law (Oxford University Press, 2006) and An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law Readings, Cases, Materials (with Arthur von Mehren)(Cambridge University Press, 2006).

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199689392
• Dimensioni: 237 x 26.3 x 162 mm Ø 652 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 336