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The Common Law and Civil Law legal systems
dominate western legal thought and
practice, co-existing with minor traditions such as
Socialist, Religious, and Tribal/Traditional.
The scope of the course is limited to legal systems,
laws, and historical events which
contributed most significantly to the Western/European
legal culture in which we live today. It is
presented in roughly chronological order, and includes
selections from law codes, legal
documents, and scholarly analysis of legal
systems or issues. It ranges from ancient
Mesopotamia through classical Greece and Rome, includes
Byzantine law, the revival of Roman Law at
Bologna in the High Middle Ages and birth of a
common European law, and concludes with
the division between the Common Law and Civil Law.
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