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Legal History Seminar: Continental Legal History
Professor Charles Donahue
Harvard Law School: 2166
Spring 2024
Meeting Time: T 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
2 classroom credits
Offered concurrently in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
In the first half of the twelfth century a small group of men in Bologna
began to study Roman and canon law with an
intensity not witnessed in the previous centuries. The
combined product of these two studies, known as the ius commune
(“the common law”), became an essential part of the training of
any respectable European jurist, and the influence of the ius commune
on subsequent developments, up to and including the codifications of the 19th
century, is very large indeed. This seminar will introduce students to the
techniques of reading and analyzing works in the ius commune of the
medieval and early modern periods with the goal of enabling students to write
a series of short papers on some part of the ius commune (which then
may be combined for a third-year paper). Concurrent registration in
Continental Legal History, or equivalent preparation, is required, as is the
ability to read simple Latin prose.
Offered concurrently in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as History 2080.
Multilithed materials. Students not writing their third-year papers in
conjunction with this seminar should sign up for an hour of independent
written work with Professor Donahue.
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10/06/23
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