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The Common History of European Legal Scholarship
Tammo Wallinga
This paper traces traces the common history of European legal scholarship from its beginnings in the late 12th century to the development of national codifications which started some six centuries later. During this period, Roman law was of great importance in the universities, and Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis was the central text for legal studies. We will look at the different approaches to this body of text that legal scholarship has taken over the years. Still, Roman law did not have a complete monopoly: we will have a look as well at Canon law ad Moral Theology, which - in a critical dialogue with Roman law - paved the way for modern codifications.
