Trends in the Development of Private Law in Europe from the Beginning to the End of the 20th Century#

A new publication by Professor Gábor Hamza MAE where he presents the origins of European private law and its development in the Middle Ages based on the Roman law traditions.

The aim of the first volume of his work “Trends in the Development of Private Law in Europe from the Beginning to the End of the 20th Century” is to present the origins of European private law and its development in the Middle Ages based on the Roman law traditions.

The volume contains three parts: Attempts to Codify Civil (Private) Law in the Countries of the European Union with Regard to Unification of Law, The Origins of European Private Law and The Development of European Private Law in the Middle Ages.

The first part of the volume is dealing with the origin of the European private law. The author analyzes the fate of Roman law after the demise of the Western Roman Empire. This part contains also a comprehensive analysis on the codification (compilation) of Roman law in the Roman (Byzantine) Empire during the reign of emperor Justinian I.

The author gives a thorough analysis of the ius commune in the framework of the analysis of the legal development in Europe in the Middle Ages. The legal development in Italy, France, in the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, in the Holy Roman Empire, in Hungary, in Poland and Lithuania, in England, Wales and Scotland, in the countries of Northern Europe, in the Balkan States and the Danubian Principalities as well as in the Russian Principalities is thoroughly analyzed.

About Gábor Hamza#

Gábor Hamza is full professor of Roman Law and Comparative Legal History at the Faculty of Law of the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and full member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.