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Spring 2024

Legal History: Continental Legal History

LECTURE OUTLINES AND ASSIGNMENT LINKS

The date of the class for this year’s course is linked to the outline for the prerecorded lecture. Below that, under the same date, is the outline that I used in class, when the class has already been held. The outlines contain three types of material: (1) facts or bibliography about people or events that we will mention in the class or in the lecture (‘kings, and battles, and dates’); (2) documents, or summaries thereof, that we will be studying in class (good for preparing for class); and (3) genuine outlines of the lectures. The lectures were recorded in 2022. The class outlines begin with the prerecorded lecture outlines but frequently add things or move things around to reflect what actually went on in the class. Some of them contain hyperlinks at the top that shows the order in which we took up the topics in class.

Under the outlines there are one or more links to the documents in the coursepack assigned for the class. The documents frequently contain more than we will discuss in class, because they also include documents about which you might want to write your papers. The lecture outlines usually give a pretty good idea of where the class will focus, as does the syllabus.

I have included links to many of the secondary readings listed in the syllabus as they are in syllabus, at the beginning of the week. As I say in the syllabus, focus on the documentary material. It’s more important than the secondary reading. Where more than one secondary reading is given, e.g., Bellomo and van Caenegem, they are alternatives, but they frequently provide different viewpoints.

Below the links to the documents are links to the prerecorded lectures and below that to the slides that accompany them. At least on my browser, the slides have to be downloaded; they will not appear on the screen if you just clck on them.

Bellomo, pp. 1–26 Van Caenegem, pp. 1–15 Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 1–23 Watson, pp. 1–38	Mon., Jan. 22 (2023) Mon., Jan. 22 (2024) Documents, Front Matter Documents, Part II Lecture 1a – Introduction Slides 1a Lecture 1b – Christianity Slides 1b	Wed., Jan. 24 (2023) Wed., Jan. 24 (2024) Documents, Part I Documents, Part XX Lecture 2 – Roman Law Slides 2
Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 24–37	Mon., Jan. 29 (2023) Mon., Jan. 29 (2024) Documents, Part III.A Lecture 3 – Aethelberht Slides 3	Wed., Jan. 31 (2023) Wed., Jan. 31 (2024) Documents, Part III.B Lecture 4 – Gundobad Slides 4
Bellomo, pp. 27–43 Berman, pp. 85–119, 273–332 Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 38–70 Van Caenegem, pp. 16–29 Vinogradoff, pp. 11–42	Mon., Feb. 05 (2023) Mon., Feb. 05 (2024) Documents, Part IV Documents, Part V Lecture 5 – Feudalism Slides 5	Wed., Feb. 07 (2023) Wed., Feb. 07 (2024) Documents, Part V Documents, Part VI Lecture 6 – Reform Slides 6
Bellomo, pp. 44–61, 89–117 Vinogradoff, pp. 43–70 Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 71–94	Mon., Feb. 12 (2023) Mon., Feb. 12 (2024) Lecture 7a – Institutions Slides 7a	Wed., Feb. 14 (2023) Wed., Feb. 14 (2024) Documents, Part VII Lecture 7b – RLGlossators Slides 7b
Bellomo, pp. 61–88 Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 95–150 Van Caenegem, pp. 30–114 Vinogradoff, pp. 71–96	Mon., Feb. 19 (2023) Mon., Feb. 19 (2024) Documents, Part VIII Lecture 8 – CLGlossators Slides 8	Wed., Feb. 21 (2023) Wed., Feb. 21 (2024) Documents, Part IX.A–D, F Lecture 9 – RomCanProcedure Slides 9
	Mon., Feb. 26 (2023) Mon., Feb. 26 (2024) Documents, Part XIV.A–B Lecture 10 – Smith c. Dolling Slides 10	Wed., Feb. 28 (2023) Wed., Feb. 28 (2024) Documents, Part X.A Lecture 11 – Usatges_Barcelona Slides 11
	Mon., Mar. 04 (2023) Mon., Mar. 04 (2024) Documents, Part X.B–C Lecture 12 – French Custumals Slides 12	Wed., Mar. 06 (2023) Wed., Mar. 06 (2023) Documents, Part XI.A–D Lecture 13 – Imperium Slides 13
Spring Break
Bellomo, pp. 116–161 Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 151–228	Mon., Mar. 18 (2023) Documents, Part XI.E Documents, Part XIII Lecture 14 14c_15c_Intro Slides 14	Wed., Mar. 20 (2023) Documents, Part XIII Documents, Part XII.A, C, D Documents, Part XIV.E Lecture 15 – Commentators 1 Slides 15
	Mon., Mar. 25 (2023) Documents, Part XIV.C–D Lecture 16 – Commentators 2 Slides 16	Wed., Mar. 27 (2023) Documents, Part XIV.F Display Catalogue Lecture 17 – Marradi (1780) Slides 17
Bellomo, pp. 162–173 Watson, pp. 53–82 Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 229–293	Mon., Apr. 01 (2023) Documents, Part XV Documents, Part XVI.C Lecture 18 – Humanists Slides 18	Wed., Apr. 03 (2023) Documents, Part XVI.A–B, D Lecture 19 – Ordonnances Slides 19
Watson, pp. 83–125	Mon., Apr. 08 (2023) Documents, Part XVII Lecture 20 – 17th Century, A¹ Lecture 20 – 17th Century, B¹ Slides 20	Wed., Apr. 10 (2023) Documents, Part XVIII Lecture 21 – Pierson v. Post Slides 21
Padoa-Schioppa, pp. 294–401 Van Caenegem, pp. 115–169 Watson, pp. 126–130	Mon., Apr. 15 (2023) Documents, Part XVIII (cont’d) Documents, Part XIX Lecture 22 – Domat and Pothier Slides 22	Wed., Apr. 17 (2023) Documents, Part XX Lecture 23a – French Code Lecture 23b – German Code Slides 23
Van Caenegem, pp. 170–196	Mon., Apr. 22 (2023) Documents, End Matter Lecture 24 – Final (printed text)

¹ Part A lasts 45 minutes and then crashes. Part B picks up where Part A left off and runs for 39 minutes.

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