Civil Law, Common Law, Customary Law: Consonance, Divergence and Transformation in Western Europe from the late eleventh to the thirteenth centuries

Projektinformationen

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ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 740611

DOI 10.3030/740611

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 3 April 2017

Startdatum 1 Mai 2017

Enddatum 30 September 2022

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 2 161 502,00

EU-Beitrag € 2 161 502,00

Koordiniert durch

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
United Kingdom

Ziel

A highly significant division in present-day Europe is between two types of legal system: the Continental with foundations in Civil Law (law with an ultimately Roman law basis), and English Common Law. Both trace their continuous history back to the twelfth century. The present project re-evaluates this vital period in legal history, by comparing not just English Common Law and Continental Civil Law (or “Ius commune”), but also the customary laws crucially important in Continental Europe even beyond the twelfth century. Such laws shared many features with English law, and the comparison thus disrupts the simplistic English:Continental distinction. The project first analyses the form, functioning and development of local, national, and supra-national laws. Similarities, differences, and influences will then be examined from perspectives of longer-term European legal development. Proper historical re-examination of the subject is very timely because of current invocation of supposed legal histories, be it Eurosceptic celebration of English Common Law or rhetorical use of Ius commune as precedent for a common European Law.
F. W. Maitland wrote that ‘there is not much “comparative jurisprudence” for those who do not know thoroughly well the things to be compared’. A comparative project requires collaboration – PI, senior researcher, post-doctoral and doctoral researchers, and Advisory Board. It also needs an integrated approach, through carefully selected areas, themes, and sources. The purpose is not just to provide geographical and thematic coverage but to assemble scholars who overcome divisions of approach in legal historiography: between lawyers and historians, between national traditions, between Common Law and Civil Law. The project is thus very significant in developing methods for writing comparative legal history - and legal history and comparative law more widely - in terms of uncovering patterns, constructing narratives, and testing theories of causation.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• social sciences › law

Schlüsselbegriffe

• Comparative Legal History

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-2016-ADG - ERC Advanced Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2016-ADG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 2 161 502,00
• Adresse: NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE ; KY16 9AJ St Andrews ; Vereinigtes Königreich
• Region: Scotland › Eastern Scotland › Clackmannanshire and Fife
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 2 161 502,00

Begünstigte (1)

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS

Vereinigtes Königreich

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 2 161 502,00
• Adresse: NORTH STREET 66 COLLEGE GATE ; KY16 9AJ St Andrews
• Region: Scotland › Eastern Scotland › Clackmannanshire and Fife
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 2 161 502,00