CORE Seminar in Legal Theory: Prof. dr. Tamar HERZOG (Harvard) (25 APR 2023)
A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millenia
Prof. Dr. Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard University
Introduced by Prof. Dr. Laurent de Sutter.
Abstract:
A Short History of European Law, Tamar Herzog’s new, best-selling, monograph, she brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and place to the next. Only by considering Continental civil law and English common law together do we see how they drew from and enriched this shared tradition. An unconventional reading of European Law seen from the other side of the Atlantic, A Short History of European Law (Harvard University Press, 2018) is by no mean a mere introduction. It rather offers a radical reenactment and redistribution of the received narratives about what law was and still is in Europe.
Practical information
Donderdag, 25 april, 2024 - 12:00 tot 14:00
Meeting Room RC C.4.09 (4th floor)
Free entrance, no registration required.
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