Five legal revolutions since the 17th century : an analysis of a global legal history / Jean-Louis Halpérin.
2014
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Title
Five legal revolutions since the 17th century : an analysis of a global legal history / Jean-Louis Halpérin.
Published
Cham [Switzerland] ; New York : Springer, [2014]
Copyright
©2014
Call Number
K150 .H35 2014
ISBN
3319058878 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9783319058870 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9783319058870 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
Description
xvi, 194 pages ; 25 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)871318871
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
1.
What is Revolutionary in the Legal Construction of Modern States?
1
1.1.
Sea Change in the Use of Law Sources?
10
1.2.
Role of the Professions in a New Configuration of the Legal Field
23
Bibliography
31
2.
Codification and Law Reporting: A Revolution Through Systematisation?
35
2.1.
From Consolidation to Codification, the Revolutionary Turning Point
38
2.2.
Nuances in Opposing Common Law and Civil Law Countries: Systematisation Through Law Reports and Precedents
49
2.3.
Reshaping the Configuration of the Legal Field Top Down or Bottom Up?
61
Bibliography
70
3.
Modern Constitutionalism: A Chain of Revolutions Always in Progress
73
3.1.
Historical Foundations of American Constitutionalism
75
3.2.
Waves of Constitutional Revolution Outside the United States
89
3.3.
Re-Configuration of the Legal Field Though Constitutional Law?
104
Bibliography
108
4.
Federative Law: A Fettered Revolution?
111
4.1.
United States and Switzerland: Two Historical Models of Federative Law
112
4.2.
European Law and Its Complex Progress Towards Federative Law
125
4.3.
Revolutionary Configuration of a Specific Legal Field?
140
Bibliography
147
5.
International or Global Law: An Unachieved Revolution?
151
5.1.
Which Point of Departure Makes for an International Legal Order?
152
5.2.
Can we Measure the Impact of International Law?
162
5.3.
International Legal Field Without a Unified Forum?
179
5.4.
Conclusion
186
Bibliography
189
Index
193