Preface |
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Acknowledgements |
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Introduction to historical jurisprudence |
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1 Paradigms and revolutions |
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8 | (26) |
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8 | (2) |
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2 Obstacles and revolutions |
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10 | (3) |
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3 Epistemological questions |
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13 | (3) |
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4 Realism and anti-realism |
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16 | (2) |
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5 Social science and revolutions |
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18 | (2) |
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20 | (5) |
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25 | (2) |
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27 | (4) |
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31 | (2) |
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33 | (1) |
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2 Schemes and paradigm orientations |
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34 | (22) |
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34 | (3) |
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37 | (5) |
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3 Holism versus individualism |
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42 | (2) |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (4) |
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6 Schemes of intelligibility |
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50 | (3) |
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53 | (1) |
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54 | (2) |
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3 Roman legal methods and reasoning (1) |
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56 | (23) |
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1 Introduction: schemes of intelligibility and roman texts |
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56 | (1) |
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2 Overview of the Roman texts |
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57 | (3) |
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3 Roman legal reasoning: general overview |
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60 | (5) |
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4 Formalism and structuralism |
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65 | (5) |
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5 Casuistry and causality |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (3) |
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7 Analogy and inference: the language and structure of facts |
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75 | (2) |
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8 Summarising observations |
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77 | (2) |
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4 Roman legal methods and reasoning (2) |
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79 | (25) |
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1 Utilitas and functionality |
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79 | (2) |
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2 Fiction and functionalism |
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81 | (5) |
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86 | (3) |
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4 Interpretatio (ars hermeneutica) |
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89 | (2) |
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91 | (2) |
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6 The whole (form) and its parts (substance) |
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93 | (5) |
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98 | (2) |
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8 Concluding observations |
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100 | (4) |
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5 Post-Roman methods and methodologies |
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104 | (33) |
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104 | (5) |
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2 Scholastic epistemology |
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109 | (4) |
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3 Hermeneutical turn (ars hermeneutica) |
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113 | (2) |
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4 Interpretation (de verborum significatione) |
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115 | (3) |
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5 Structural turn (ins civile in artem redactum) |
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118 | (3) |
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6 Mathematical turn (mos mathematicus) |
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121 | (4) |
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7 Scientific turn (methodus dogmaticus) |
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125 | (2) |
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8 Dogmatics and the common lawyer |
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127 | (2) |
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9 Dialectical tradition (dialectica britannica) |
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129 | (5) |
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10 Methodology and formalism: some reflections |
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134 | (3) |
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6 Contemporary methods and methodological issues |
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137 | (26) |
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1 Functionalist turn {utilitas) |
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137 | (5) |
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2 Actionalist turn {homo singularis) |
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142 | (2) |
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144 | (4) |
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4 Causality and economics |
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148 | (2) |
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5 Culturalist turn (ex cultura ius oritur) |
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150 | (2) |
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152 | (3) |
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155 | (3) |
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8 Culturalism and epistemology |
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158 | (4) |
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162 | (1) |
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7 Terminology and the foundations of legal theory |
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163 | (27) |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (2) |
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3 Terminology and definition |
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167 | (2) |
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4 Defining law (/us) itself |
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169 | (2) |
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171 | (3) |
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174 | (2) |
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7 Ownership (dominium, proprietas) |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (4) |
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9 Right (ius and dominium) |
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183 | (6) |
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189 | (1) |
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8 Taxonomy and theory building |
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190 | (33) |
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1 Order and knowledge (ars et scientia) |
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190 | (2) |
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2 Private law (ius privatum) |
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192 | (8) |
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3 Law of persons (ius personarum) |
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200 | (5) |
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4 Law of things (ius rerum) |
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205 | (4) |
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5 Law of actions (ius actionum) |
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209 | (3) |
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6 Public law (/us publicum) |
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212 | (4) |
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7 Contract (contractus) (I): ius publicum and political theory |
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216 | (2) |
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8 Contract (2): ius privatum |
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218 | (4) |
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222 | (1) |
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9 Private law theory and the resurgence of formalism |
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223 | (24) |
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1 Introduction: neo-formalism |
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223 | (4) |
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2 Formalism: historical considerations |
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227 | (3) |
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3 Foundations of modern formalism |
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230 | (3) |
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4 Formalism and the common law |
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233 | (4) |
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237 | (4) |
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6 Formalism and objectivity |
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241 | (4) |
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245 | (2) |
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10 Have there been scientific revolutions in law? |
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247 | (27) |
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1 Revolutions and legal thought |
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247 | (5) |
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2 Was legal humanism a revolution? |
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252 | (2) |
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3 Revolutions and the common law |
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254 | (3) |
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4 English law in the Nineteenth Century |
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257 | (3) |
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5 Revolution in the Nineteenth Century? |
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260 | (2) |
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6 Revolutions in the modern law |
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262 | (4) |
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266 | (4) |
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270 | (4) |
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11 Is legal knowledge cumulative (or has there been progress in law)? (1) |
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274 | (26) |
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274 | (1) |
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2 Preliminary difficulties |
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275 | (4) |
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279 | (3) |
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4 Cumulative knowledge in the social and human sciences |
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282 | (2) |
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5 Explanation (causation) and understanding (hermeneutics) |
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284 | (3) |
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6 Vertical and horizontal movements |
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287 | (4) |
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7 Legal humanism and its contribution |
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291 | (5) |
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296 | (2) |
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9 Dialectics to structuralism (and back) |
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298 | (2) |
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12 Is legal knowledge cumulative (or has there been progress in law)? (2) |
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300 | (27) |
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300 | (5) |
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2 Legal theory and progress |
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305 | (4) |
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309 | (3) |
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4 Historical jurisprudence and society |
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312 | (3) |
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315 | (4) |
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6 Law and discourse on law |
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319 | (4) |
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7 Back to Baldus via the natural lawyers? |
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323 | (3) |
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326 | (1) |
Conclusion |
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327 | (5) |
Bibliography |
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332 | (31) |
Index of names |
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363 | (4) |
Index of subjects |
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