Giuliani on F. Calasso's Idea of the Ius Commune: Legal Historians and the Romanist Tradition, 1930-60

Adolfo Giuliani, InfoLaw Research Project; Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, is publishing F. Calasso's idea of the ius commune: Legal historians and the Romanist tradition, 1930-60 in Journal Clio & Themis (June 2024). Here is the abstract.

On 16th January 1933 the young Francesco Calasso (1904-1965) delivered a prolusion on a subject that was to take the new generation of legal historians by storm: "The concept of the ius commune." His prolusion not only changed the image of the legal past but also gave a new impetus to legal history placing it at the heart of legal science. Today we need to go back in time and look closely at what he said, because the ius commune, which in the following decades became a major key to understanding the legal past, is now unclear. Outline: I. 1933: Rethinking the ius commune II. The historical problem of the ius commune III. The Romanist tradition IV. The ius commune as explained in the year 1573 V. Calasso's methodological project VI. Conclusion: Romanists Vs legal historians I. 1933: Rethinking the ius commune.

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