This day, on 138 AD, the Emperor Hadrian died in Baiae. He is remembered as a great Emperor. All lawyers will recall his general argument…
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The Chair of Civil Law, German and European Legal History at the University of Passau in connection with the research project ReConFort, Reconsidering Constitutional Formation.…
Comments closedAs a Scottish historian (if he may so describe himself), your blogger was very surprised to learn the extent to which the white rose is…
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Comments closedBlackstone famously compared the English law to a Gothic Castle. Though he was writing at the start of the Gothic revival, his approach was rather…
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