On the differences between the two streams of the German Historical School: the Pandectists and the Germanists. The example of possession: the Roman concept and Albrecht's German alternative to it, th...
The other stream of the Historical School: the Germanists and their focus on ancient German law. The parallel between the search for original legal ideas and the one for German literature: the task of...
A presentation of the nineteenth-century German model: the impossibility to adopt a generally shared codification, Savigny’s claim for the supremacy of the “Volksgeist”, the adoption of Roman institut...
The situation in the United States of America analysed by Alexis de Tocqueville, the influence of France model in Europe and the new-born “Historical School” in Germany.
This podcast analyses how France has been a model for the whole Europe. Spain, Portugal, Italy, later Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland: all adopted the model of a similar codific...
Napoleon’s reform of legal studies: the study of the Civil Code in schools. The birth of the École de l’Exégèse and the triumph and the defeat of the Code: the abrogation of other concurrent sources b...
This episode explains how the French Civil Code had the ambition to reduce the role of the judge to a passive force, a "mere mouth of the law", and how this attempt was doomed to fail.
The Code Napoleon: was it clear, rational and straightforward as it was meant to be? What differentiates it from other codes? What significant innovations did it accomplish?
This episode analyses the connection between absolutism and codification, presenting the Tuscan Criminal Code and the Prussian Civil Code as examples of a power strong enough to impose a new codificat...
This podcast deals with the wars in Europe during the 19th century. It is mainly focused on French military history during the Napoleonic wars and the strength of Napoleon’s army.
In this podcast Kim Thao Le deals with the the so-called "intermediary law", developed in France between the 1789 Revolution and Napoleon's Civil
Code of 1804 and based on revolutionary ideas.
LH0810 Kim Thao Le on the French Revolution: Causes and First Events of 1789
Kim Thao Le explains how the Enlightenment influenced the French Revolution. She offers an analysis of the Ancién Regime and how the events of this period led to the Revolution.
LH0743 A Discussion with Andrew Cecchinato on Revolutions
Emanuele Conte and Andrew Cecchinato discuss about revolutions, comparing the American and French ones and analysing some of their peculiar aspects, like the influence of Enlightenment and their ideas...
The American Constitution issued in 1787, based on Enlightenment ideals, introduced the separation of powers and the idea of the superiority of the written Constitution over any other law, but showed ...
In this episode, Andrew Cecchinato examines some of the ideas behind the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence. In particular, he focuses on Jefferson's thoughts on tyranny and how t...
The Declaration of Independence of 1776 draft by Thomas Jefferson and its key principles. The episode argues that, contrary to European countries, American identity was not based on a common historica...
This podcast examines the role of the Enlightenment and of the British Common law on American revolutionary ideals, focusing respectively on the idea of individual rights and on the influcence of Engl...
This episode introduces America as a great laboratory where European ideas were tested in an exterior space, framing the situation in North America at the dawn of the revolution, with a focus on slave...
