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Legal History: Continental Legal History

HOLLIS Classic

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This page contains a listing of secondary sources of Continental Legal History available in hard copy. Most of readings assigned from these books in the course syllabus are also available in a "course pack" that is available at the Langdell Reference Desk.

Continental Legal History - Secondary Sources

Background Reading

Medieval Europe, 400-1500.
Helmut Georg Koenigsberger. London ; New York : Longman, 1987.
Early modern Europe, 1500-1789.
Helmut George Koenigsberger. London ; New York : Longman, 1987.

European Legal History

An historical introduction to private law.
R.C. van Caenegem; translated by D.E.L. Johnston. Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
European legal history : sources and institutions. 2nd ed.
OF Robinson, TD Fergus, WM Gordon. 2nd ed. London : Butterworths, 1994.
European legal history : sources and institutions. 3rd ed.
O.F. Robinson, T.D. Fergus, W.M. Gordon. 3rd ed. London : Butterworths ; Charlottesville, Va.: Lexis Law Pub., 2000.
Law and revolution : the formation of the Western legal tradition.
Harold J. Berman. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1983.
Roman law in mediæval Europe.
Paul Vinogradoff. Union, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2001.
The common legal past of Europe, 1000-1800.
Manlio Bellomo; translated by Lydia G. Cochrane. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, 1995.
The making of the civil law.
Alan Watson. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981.