DOTPV_RRP Reception of Roman Law

Faculty of Law
Spring 2023
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. JUDr. Pavel Salák, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. JUDr. Pavel Salák, Ph.D.
Department of the History of the State and Law – Faculty of Law
Contact Person: Zuzana Suchá
Prerequisites (in Czech)
! DO3RIPR03 Reception of Roman Law I.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course focuses on the influence of Roman law in the Middle Ages and the modern history in Italy, France, England, Netherlands, Germany and the Czech lands.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will be able to;
Orientate in schools of legal thinking of the period in question;
Find appropriate sources for their thesis topic;
Characterize specific schools of legal thinking and their main representatives;
Analyse specific sources;
Determine the context and significance of specific sources;
Apply the knowledge about the reception to find materials for their thesis topic.
Syllabus
  • Reception
  • Glostors
  • Commentators
  • Reception in France
  • Reception in Great Britain
  • Reception in Nedherland
  • Medieval reception in Germany
  • Usus modernus pandectarum
  • Pandectistic
  • Medieval reception in Bohemia
  • Reception in Bohemia in 18.-21. Century
Literature
    required literature
  • URFUS, V. Římskoprávní vzdělanost a její vklad do vývoje státoprávních představ : od středověku do konce feudalismu. 1. vyd. Brno: Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně, 1978. 134 s.
  • URFUS, V. Historické základy novodobého práva soukromého : římskoprávní dědictví a soukromé právo kontinentální Evropy. 1. vyd. Praha: C.H. Beck, 1994. viii, 135. ISBN 8070491078.
    recommended literature
  • SAVIGNY, Friedrich Carl von. Geschichte des römischen Rechts im Mittelalter.
  • BELOW, Georg von. Die Ursachen der Rezeption des römischen Rechts in Deutschland. München: R. Oldenbourg, 1905. Historische Bibliothek.
  • LANGE, H. Römisches Recht im Mittelalter. München: C.H. Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1997. xxxi, 485. ISBN 3406419046.
  • JHERING, Rudolf von. Geist des römischen Rechts auf den verschiedenen Stufen seiner Entwicklung. Zweiter Theil, erste Abtheilung. 5. Aufl. Leipzig: Druck und Verlag von Breitkopf und Härtel, 1894.
  • LANGE, H. Die Anfänge der modernen Rechtswissenschaft : Bologna und das frühe Mittelalter. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, 1993. 57 s. ISBN 3515064281.
Teaching methods
There is an individual study of assigned expert literature and individual expert consultations with lecturers as a teaching method.
Assessment methods
Discussion about the reception of a chosen institute of Roman law
Language of instruction
Czech
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2024, Spring 2025.
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