...This chapter traces the historical connections between the law and the state. Topics covered include codifications and the state, textual foundations of the ius commune, and legislative codifications and the legal profession. It shows that even in more recent times, it was often...

...This chapter delves deeper into the notion of the immanent field by focusing on codifications of speech and image and how they are built according to the relationship between the diegetic speaking subject, the status of the image as a function of time, and the representation of memory. It argues...

...This chapter provides a comparison of the treatment of bishops in the Theodosian Code and in the Justinianic Code and Novellae shows that in the interval between these two codifications, bishops who had in the fourth century been regarded and revered as model Christians were in the sixth century...

... States of America scholarship judicialization European Continent legal history nationalization of the law codifications globalization comparative inspiration frequency scholarship judicialization Over the last two decades, increasing attention has been paid to an allegedly new phenomenon...

...This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the problems associated with law-making and its application in legal practice. It then sets out the purpose of the book, which is to further clarify the classical understanding of the legal process in general, and of codifications...

...This concluding chapter argues that non-legislative codifications, such as the American Restatements, the Principles of European Contract Law, and the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, are no modern peculiarity. On the contrary: European...

...This chapter summarizes the conclusions flowing from the previous seven chapters and provides a general assessment of the choice-of-law codifications adopted in the last 50 years. It shows that these codifications are more comprehensive, complex, flexible, pragmatic, pluralistic, and eclectic than...

... Access to Justice Latin America Recent Codifications Protection of Individuals Private International Law Non-State Law Argentina Brazil - Uruguay After decades of passivity, in recent years several Latin American countries, including Argentina, ¹ Brazil, ² Panama...

...Roman legal history is framed by two codifications, the Twelve Tables, which limited its contents to initially ten and then twelve tablets, and the Corpus Iuris Civilis of Justinian, the compilers of which in 530 ad were confronted by a mass of material set out...

...Roman historians have long used Roman legal texts – in the shape of the Twelve Tables; statutes, often preserved epigraphically; juristic writing; and the imperial codifications – as sources for economic, social, and even political history. Far less attention has been paid to questions relating...

... about tempo modification in detailed 19th-century codifications are also discussed. Finally, written texts and audible examples that herald the change in taste during the early 20th century - the move towards more subtle use of tempo modification - are analysed and discussed. Blume Walter idiosyncratic...

... commercial contract law. ¹⁴⁹ On the other hand, many codifications have become ‘prison cells’ of private law in the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. ⁸³ In some European countries, influential lawyers and courts increasingly regard the traditional rules of their national...

... Restatements are genuinely non-legislative codifications. They comprehensively lay down the rules of a large body of the law; and they do this, usually, in a form that is more structured and consistent than the previous law. At times, it may be difficult to draw a clear distinction between a restatement...