Monti on the Legal Authority of the Senate of Milan (16th-17th Centuries) @Unibocconi

Annamaria Monti, Bocconi University Department of Law, has published Under the Legal Authority of the Senate of Milan (16th-17th Centuries) in Authorities in Early Modern Courts in Europe 137-149 (G. Rossi, ed., Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2021). Here is the abstract.

The Senato of Milan was one of the most powerful European courts of justice in the early modern period, and its case law greatly influenced the development of substantive law. Indeed, recent research on the problems of legislation, law and the role of judges today has shone a spotlight on how case law impacts sources of law—and I believe this is an interesting opportunity to examine the issue by looking back on the institutional values and systems that society had in place during the ancien régime, of which the Senato itself was at once an expression and a guarantor.

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