Legal science

Legal science is one of the main components in the civil law tradition (after Roman law, canon law, commercial law, and the legacy of the revolutionary period).

Legal science is primarily the creation of German legal scholars of the middle and late nineteenth century, and it evolved naturally out of the ideas of Friedrich Carl von Savigny. Savigny argued that German codification should not follow the rationalist and secular natural law thinking that characterized the French codification but should be based on the principles of law that had historically been in force in Germany.^[1]

References

^ John H. Merryman et al., The Civil Law Tradition: Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, Cases and Materials 481 (LexisNexis ed., 1994) (reprinted 2000).

Books

Black's Law Dictionary, Abridged Seventh Edition, Bryan A. Garner
Sabino Cassese, Recensione a J.H. Merryman, “The Italian Style, Doctrine, Law, Interpretation”, in “Stanford Law Review”, 1965-66, in “Rivista trimestrale di diritto pubblico”, 1966, n. 2, pp. 419-424.

External links

The "Science" of Legal Science: The Model of the Natural Sciences in Nineteenth-Century American Legal Education

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[1] John H. Merryman et al., The Civil Law Tradition: Europe, Latin America, and East Asia, Cases and Materials 481 (LexisNexis ed., 1994) (reprinted 2000).

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