Legal History from a European Perspective
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
LH0930 Germanists and Gewere
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the differences between the two streams of the German Historical School: the Pandectists and the Germanists. The example of possession: the Roman c...
LH0920 The Germanists
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The other stream of the Historical School: the Germanists and their focus on ancient German law. The parallel between the search for original legal id...
LH0910 Savigny and the Historical School
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A presentation of the nineteenth-century German model: the impossibility to adopt a generally shared codification, Savigny’s claim for the supremacy...
LH0900 Introduction to the 19th Century
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The situation in the United States of America analysed by Alexis de Tocqueville, the influence of France model in Europe and the new-born “Historica...
LH0860 France as a Model
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast analyses how France has been a model for the whole Europe. Spain, Portugal, Italy, later Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium and Switz...
LH0850 Jurisprudence and Codification
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Napoleon’s reform of legal studies: the study of the Civil Code in schools. The birth of the École de l’Exégèse and the triumph and the defeat ...
LH0840 Bouche de la loi
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explains how the French Civil Code had the ambition to reduce the role of the judge to a passive force, a "mere mouth of the law", and ho...
LH0830 The Code Napoleon
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Code Napoleon: was it clear, rational and straightforward as it was meant to be? What differentiates it from other codes? What significant innovat...
LH0820 Absolutism and Codification
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode analyses the connection between absolutism and codification, presenting the Tuscan Criminal Code and the Prussian Civil Code as examples ...
LH0815 France at War
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast deals with the wars in Europe during the 19th century. It is mainly focused on French military history during the Napoleonic wars and the...
LH0811 Kim Thao Le on the Droit intermediaire
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast Kim Thao Le deals with the the so-called "intermediary law", developed in France between the 1789 Revolution and Napoleon's Civil Code...
LH0810 Kim Thao Le on the French Revolution: Causes and First Events of 1789
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Thao Le explains how the Enlightenment influenced the French Revolution. She offers an analysis of the Ancién Regime and how the events of this p...
LH0800 Kim Thao Le on The Legal Ideas of the Enlightenment
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Tao Le introduces the Enlightenment, analysing its most important ideas and presenting the figures of Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Rousseau.
LH0743 A Discussion with Andrew Cecchinato on Revolutions
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emanuele Conte and Andrew Cecchinato discuss about revolutions, comparing the American and French ones and analysing some of their peculiar aspects, l...
LH0740 American Constitution as a Model
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The American Constitution represented a model for later claims of independence, and was followed by many other countries, including Italy.
LH0730 The Constitution
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The American Constitution issued in 1787, based on Enlightenment ideals, introduced the separation of powers and the idea of the superiority of the wr...
LH0721 Jefferson and the Declaration
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Andrew Cecchinato examines some of the ideas behind the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence. In particular, he fo...
LH0720 Jefferson and the Declaration
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Declaration of Independence of 1776 draft by Thomas Jefferson and its key principles. The episode argues that, contrary to European countries, Ame...
LH0710 The American Revolution
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast examines the role of the Enlightenment and of the British Common law on American revolutionary ideals, focusing respectively on the idea ...
LH0700 America in 1776
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode introduces America as a great laboratory where European ideas were tested in an exterior space, framing the situation in North America at...
LH0520 Common Law as Customary Law
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode analyses early-modern Common law as a system of customary laws, the role of English local courts and the beginning of English constitutio...
LH0510 Customary National Laws
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episodes puts into connection the rise of national states in the early Modern era and the national codifications of customary law.
LH0500 Customs
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast goes through the history of legal customs, from the Middle Ages to the early modern era, focusing especially on the relationship between ...
LH0490 Hotman between Geneva and France
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast introduces the figure of François Hotman, a French legal humanist and calvinist, presenting his main works: the "Antitribonian", a stron...
LH0480 The Protestant Reformation
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode examines the Protestant reformation, its main points and the subsequent crisis of traditional legal norms. It also mentions Max Weber's t...
LH0475 Piotr Gorecki on the Reception of Roman Law in Germany
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Piotr Gorecki introduces the Reichskammergericht, the new central court created in 1495 by emperor Maximilian I, and the so-called “...
LH0470 Legal Culture in France
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Much more open to innovations brought by humanists, the sixteenth-century French legal culture played an essential role in shaping law. After introduc...
LH0460 Legal Humanism
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast introduces Humanism, an intellectual movement focused on the reconstruction of classical literature, and presents its most relevant figur...
LH0451 The Modern Age
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to the Modern Age: a period started in the 15th century, in which intellectuals felt enlightened. This podcast also provides a list of...
LH0450 Crisis of the Universal Powers and the End of the Middle Ages
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast deals with the transformation of the political reality in the highest institutions during the Middle Ages and the early modern era; it de...
LH0442 Piotr Gorecki on the German Area in the Middle Ages
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on the Holy Roman Empire and its laws. It provides an overview of the sources of law and presents four phenomena that can be attr...
LH0441 Piotr Gorecki on Eastern Europe
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Piotr Gorecki explains that law in medieval Eastern and Central Europe was mainly customary. He analyses the origin of the word “cu...
LH0440 Institutional Framework
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcasts delves more into the similarities between Common law and Civil law in the high Middle Ages, by challenging the conventional narratives a...
LH0430 How Exceptional Was English Common Law?
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcasts questions whether Common law was really that different from the law of Continental Europe in the High Middle Ages. It analyses some seem...
LH0421 Birth of Statute in England
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Will Eves examines the birth of statutes in England, giving a chronology of the legislative practices from Anglo-Saxon times to the 1...
LH0420 Common Law, Royal Laws, and the Parliament
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast tries to challenge the conventional narrative of Common law as a purely jurisprudential system, highlighting the influence of royal legis...
LH0411 Wiliam Eves on Equity
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, William Eves introduces equity as a body of law developing alongside Common law. He explains the origin of equity, its development un...
LH0410 John Hudson on the Magna Carta
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Hudson presents the Magna Carta, the most famous of English constitutional documents, issued after the rebellion of the English aristocracy again...
LH0409 Thomas Becket
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast deals with the strong opposition that English kings had to face during their reign because of their attempt to secure a strong royal juri...
LH0400 Procedure in England and on the Continent
10 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast describes the fundamental role of procedure in English Common law and the birth of judiciary abstraction, with a comparison between Briti...
LH0390 The Judiciary Abstraction
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast deals with the birth of writs and the growth of English royal jurisdiction, with the possibility for litigants to submit their disputes t...
LH0382 John Hudson on Angevin Reforms - Interpretation
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Hudson investigates the essence of the Angevin reforms: what was Henry II's main concern? What new procedures did this reformation bring? What in...
LH0381 John Hudson on Angevin Reforms - A Chronology
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, John Hudson talks about the restoration of a royal authority by Henry II and his will of providing peace and justice, the Assizes of ...
LH0380 John Hudson on Late Anglo-Saxon Law
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
John Hudson explains the efforts to limit violence made by the Anglo-Saxon kings during the 10th century. By doing so, he presents two different types...
LH0379 Europe in 1100
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A description of Europe's situation and Kingdoms in 1110: the Empire, the Church, the Kingdom of France, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Sic...
LH0371 Attilio Stella on Legal Pluralism
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Attilio Stella describes the situation of legal pluralism in Italy during the 12th and 13th centuries. He talks about the twofold relationship between...
LH0370 Ius Commune and Legal Pluralism
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast presents Francesco Calasso's idea of the ius commune as a framework for many coexisting legal orders, introducing the concept of legal pl...
LH0360 The System of the Ius Commune
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
By making examples, like the theories on legal personality, this podcast introduces the prolific age of the “ius commune”, based on Roman law, can...
LH0350 The Universities
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode deals with the emergence of an intellectual environment to study and teach: the birth of the universities during the 12th century, and th...
LH0342 A Discussion on Fiefs with Emanuele Conte, Attilio Stella and Matthew McHaffie
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion over the fief, its introduction, changes and how it has been possible that a local custom was adopted as a general rule amongst all Europ...
LH0340 Feudal Law
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Libri feudorum as the first collection feudal law, which regulates the fiefs and the relationships between lords and vassals; Pilius de Medicina a...
LH0332 Changes in Doctrine and Practice in the 12th Century. A Discussion with Sarah White and David De Concilio
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A conversation on how law changed from 1050 to 1150. The discussants focus on the the development of a standardised procedure in the ecclesiastical co...
LH0331 Sarah White on Canon Law Books
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sara White presents and illustrates two of the most influential books of Canon law of the 12th and 13th century: Gratian's Decretum and the Liber Extr...
LH0330 Canon Law
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to some of the most important Canon Law collections that will eventually form the Corpus Iuris Canonici.
LH0322 David De Concilio on Dialectical Tools
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
David De Concilio describes the major impact that the dialectical method had on the legal culture. He also analyses the main tools of this method, qua...
LH0321 The Dialectical Method
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The aim of this podcast is to describe the medieval approach to Roman law institutes based on dialectical reasoning, as opposed to the modern systemat...
LH0320 The Method of the Glossators
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode introduces scholasticism and its main ideas. The scholastic method dealt with the contradictions in the Corpus Iuris Civilis and the ways...
LH0310 The Reconstruction of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode deals with the recovery and reconstruction of the Corpus Iuris Civilis. The process is placed in the context of the Gregorian Reform and ...
LH0300 A Rational Turn
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Through the illustration of a mosaic in the church of San Savino, Piacenza, Italy, this podcast explains the relationship between rationality and law,...
LH0290 A New Idea of Legal Text
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast analyses the dispute about the legitimacy of Gregory VII's excommunication of Henry IV. The case studi is used to explain the change of a...
LH0281 Dan Armstrong on an Eleventh-century Canonical Collection
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, Dan Armstrong analyses the Collectio Lanfranci, which became a predominant canonical collection in England, as an example of th...
LH0280 The Dictatus Papae and the Investiture Controversy
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A detailed introduction to the content and historical context of the Dictatus Papae, a historical source containing the framework of the changing imag...
LH0270 The Gregorian Reform of the Church
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast introduces to pope Gregory VII and some of his policies: the division between secular and ecclesiastical life, disciplining the priests, ...
LH0260 The Papal Revolution
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast deals with the changes of the Catholic Church in the 11th century, defined by H.J. Berman as "the papal revolution", and with the introdu...
LH0251 Matthew McHaffie on Malae Consuetudines
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Matthew Mchaffie explains the concept of evil customs in the later 11th and 12th centuries and how they help us to understand the society and the reli...
LH0250 Feudal Anarchy
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explains how the crisis of the Carolingian Empire and Europe’s fragmentation led to a network of fidelities and the establishment of ma...
LH0240 Feudalism
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Feudalism: what makes it so hard to describe it? How is it related to the concept of love? This episode tries to answers these questions, gives a hist...
LH0230 The Carolingian Empire and Beyond
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode tells the story of the Carolingian empire, analysing its chronology, characteristics and relationship with the Church, but also some phen...
LH0220 Disgregation and Danger
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A short historical excursus about the reasons that led to fragmentation in Europe between the 6th and 8th centuries and their consequences: from verna...
LH0190 The Traditional Historiography and Legal Change
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast reconsiders some traditional historiographical explanations regarding the idea of law, legislation and legal ownership, comparing the dif...
LH0180 Transformations of Property and Possession
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast deals with property and possession: differences and changes between classical Roman Law and the new legal concepts that emerged during th...
LH0170 Composition of Crimes
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on one of the main features of many barbarian legislations: the composition of crimes by paying a fine, how close to us some medi...
LH0161 Ordeals in Anglo-Saxon Practice: a Conversation Between John Hudson and Robert Bartlett
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What were the most common forms of ordeal in England and for what kind of offence were they used? Professor Robert Bartlett answers these questions du...
LH0160 Divine intervention
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Between oaths and ordeals: an examination of the idea of divine intervention in the medieval legal procedure and how this concept changed with the the...
LH0150 What is a Law?
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What exactly was a law in the early medieval kingdoms, and what gave rise to legal forgeries?
LH0140 New Kingdoms
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode deals with the new barbarian kingdoms established in Europe after the fall of the Western Empire and the legislation issued by their rule...
LH0130 What is a King?
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The most important political form of power during the first centuries of the Middle Ages was the kingdom. This episode provides an analysis of kingshi...
LH0123 A Discussion with Caroline Humfress on the Law in Late Antiquity
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Emanuele Conte and Caroline Humfress delve into notions and points of view regarding the law in Late Antiquity, addressing the issues of continuity an...
LH0122 The Corpus Iuris Civilis
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A historical and structural analysis of the Corpus Iuris Civilis and its four parts: the Codex, the Digest, the Institutes and the Novellae.
LH0121 Justinian
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode talks about the history of emperor Justinian, his ambition to restore the Roman Empire and the results of his policies. His major achieve...
LH0120 Christian Ideals on Rights and Power
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode analyses how Christianity shaped Roman society, introducing its values and new ways, focusing on some important features like marriage, m...
LH0110 Roman and Christian
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Was the Christian Church already romanized or did Constantine's conversion permanently capsize the Roman mentality? This podcast is meant to present t...
LH0100 Constantine
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A historical excursus on Constantine’s politics: from the Battle of Ponte Milvio, when he fought under the banner of Christ, to the Edict of Milan, ...
LH0090 Christianity and Roman Legal System
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode analyses how the Roman legal system changed with the introduction of Christianity in the Empire, seen from a critical and historical poin...
LH0080 Codifications
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This podcast focuses on the importance of codifications to preserve legal knowledge, and how they Code of Theodose was a turning point in legal histor...
LH0070 Compilations and Contradictions
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode describes the sources of Roman law; it provides basic information about how the ideas of ancient lawyers were preserved throughout histor...
LH0061 Roman Law
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An introduction to Roman law throughout history as an ever-changing phenomenon, defined by Goethe as a “diving duck that sinks but always resurfaces...
LH0050 J.Q. Whitman and the Role of Legal History
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode introduces the ideas of a law professor at the University of Yale, James Q. Whitman, who stresses the importance of legal history to unde...
LH0040 Legal History in the 19th and 20th Century
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode analyses the history of legal history and the traditional interpretation keys behind it that do not correspond to contemporary beliefs, s...
LH0030 Why Do We Study Legal History?
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An explanation of the historical reason of the contemporary study of legal history. This podcast introduces the views of Friedrich Carl von Savigny an...
LH0021 Why Legal History? A Discussion with Emanuele Conte and John Hudson
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A discussion between Emanuele Conte and John Hudson on the importance of studying legal history: we need more history for lawyers but also more ...