Modern Judicial History - (Volume 1 and 2)

Author: (German) Franz Wieacker
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: From the Middle Ages to the 1960s, Franz Wieacker traces the origins of modern private law in A History of Modern Private Law with a Focus on Germany, covering the status of the legal profession, the types of legal literature, judicial and legislative practices, as well as the philosophical and legal thought background. The work is characterized by its broad scope and elegant, meticulous narration. With unwavering perseverance, masterful skill, and extraordinary passion, Wieacker accomplished the following: to narrate a story of European legal thought development based on the sources of private law, from the medieval Bologna to the present day. Another achievement of this classic work lies in its elucidation of the continuous interaction between legal thought and general philosophical thought, such as Scholasticism and medieval legal science, the Enlightenment and natural law, and classicism and the Savigny Historical School.