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This book features a discussion on the modernisation of law and legal change, focusing on the key concepts of innovation" and "transition". These concepts both appear to be relevant and poorly defined in contemporary legal science. A critical reflection on the heuristic value of these categories seems appropriate, particularly considering their dyadic value. While innovation is increasingly appearing in the present day as being the category in which one looks at the modernisation of law, the concept of transition also seems to be the privileged place of occurrence for such dynamics. This group of Italian and Brazilian scholars contributing to this volume intends to investigate such problems through an interdisciplinary prism. It includes points of view both internal to legal studies - such as the history of law, theory of law, constitutional law, private law and commercial law - and external, such as political philosophy and history of justice and political institutions.
The university reforms that took place in Europe throughout the 18th century were an important moment of change in the history of these institutions. In the Iberian Peninsula, this wave of reforms left its mark in Coimbra and Salamanca (later reaching the other Spanish universities). Portugal and Spain were no strangers to the motivations and even to the general lines of this wave of reforms. Inseparable from the ideas of the Enlightenment, and with a clear will to combat the backwardness and decadence of these institutions, rather ambitious projects emerged, albeit in different degrees. Coimbra faced a rather disruptive initial situation while in Salamanca later plans (1807, for example) pr...
This comprehensive volume offers fresh insights on Latin American and Caribbean law before European contact, during the colonial and early republican eras and up to the present. It considers the history of legal education, the legal profession, Indigenous legal history, and the legal history concerning Africans and African Americans, other enslaved peoples, women, immigrants, peasants, and workers. This book also examines the various legal frameworks concerning land and other property, commerce and business, labor, crime, marriage, family and domestic conflicts, the church, the welfare state, constitutional law and rights, and legal pluralism. It serves as a current introduction for those ne...
Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to unprecedented modes of social mixing for Jews, especially for those living in urban areas, who frequently encountered Jews from different ethnic backgrounds and cultural orientations. Additionally, Jews formed social, economic, and intellectual bonds with mixed populations of Christians. While not necessarily effacing Jewish loyalties to local places, authorities, and customs, these connections and ...
Every student of criminal law knows for a fact that the Poulterers' Case (1611) launched modern criminal conspiracy. This decision laid the first stone of the principle that an agreement to commit a crime is also a crime. However, besides what the law reports say, little is known about the facts of the case. This edition of the testimonies collected by the Star Chamber intends to fill this gap. Additionally, an introductory study will discuss how these facts shed new light on the reasons that were mustered in support of the decision. It will also argue that modern conspiracy was not a creation of the courts but rather of the nineteenth-century scholars who turned the Poulterers' Case into a ...
Monarchs throughout the ages have commissioned official histories that cast their reigns in a favorable light for future generations. These accounts, sanctioned and supported by the ruling government, often gloss over the more controversial aspects of a king's or queen’s time on the throne. Instead, they present highly selective and positive readings of a monarch’s contribution to national identity and global affairs. In Clio and the Crown, Richard L. Kagan examines the official histories of Spanish monarchs from medieval times to the middle of the 18th century. He expertly guides readers through the different kinds of official histories commissioned: those whose primary focus was the mo...
Tracing global histories of patenting, this book reveals the resilient diversity of patent systems, challenging the universality of 'intellectual property'.
Bajo este título se presenta un estudio de la historia de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Salamanca en un periodo que abarca desde 1820 hasta 1900. En el mismo se atiende tanto a la institución docente como a los individuos que la integraron, por lo que puede calificarse de una obra ambiciosa, tanto por estos aspectos que se tratan, como por la señalada cronología, teniendo así una visión de conjunto de la Facultad de Derecho salmantina en el siglo XIX, periodo en que vio cómo la implantación del régimen liberal trajo la uniformización y centralización administrativas poniendo en peligro su pervivencia, además de situarla entre las Universidades periféricas que sobrevivieron como satélites alrededor de la Universidad Central de Madrid. El hecho de que durante muchos años fuese la única Facultad mayor de la Universidad salmantina hace que este trabajo sirva también para conocer más a fondo la historia decimonónica de la institución centenaria.
El triunfo de la revolución liberal democrática de 1868 supuso en el ámbito de la educación superior universitaria un principio de descentralización que trajo como consecuencia que las Universidades llamadas periféricas volvieran a conferir el grado de doctor, competencia que se atribuyó desde 1845 a la Universidad Central de Madrid en exclusiva. Partiendo de este hecho, el libro -pionero en este sentido- muestra, por un lado, lo que significó esta nueva competencia para la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Salamanca y, por otro lado, con la publicación de todos y cada uno de los trabajos de colación para dicho grado, se pretende contribuir a la historia de la ciencia jurídica decimonónica en España en tanto en cuanto estos trabajos aspiraban a convertirse en trabajos de investigación dentro del ámbito del Derecho.
Permítenos, querido amigo y compañero, en este tiempo de desolación, también cargados de sentimientos, parafrasear al poeta catalán para dedicarte en unas pocas líneas este libro. Aparte de con mucho afecto, lo hemos concebido, dejando de lado ritos y fastos a los que tan dada es la academia, pensando simplemente en que lo mereces. Son de sobra conocidas tu sencillez y tu humildad, por no hablar de tu infatigable laboriosidad (tal vez herencia de aquellos años duros de Ciudad Rodrigo), cualidades, sobre todo las dos primeras, que por desgracia no suelen abundar en el mundo universitario. Si a todo ello añadimos tu proverbial bonhomía no estás del todo lejos del estereotipo machadia...