Legal Update: Recent Trends in Legal Scholarship

Tracing Legal History In Continental Civil Law

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794356.013.37 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Heikki Pihlajamäki

Keyword(s):

Legal History ◽

Global Politics ◽

Roman Law ◽

Historical Science ◽

Legal Scholarship ◽

Historical School ◽

Introductory Note ◽

Recent Trends ◽

Post War

This chapter begins with a brief introductory note on the role of legal history in ancient Roman law, and the legal scholarship of medieval glossators and commentators. It then turns to the dominant schools of continental legal scholarship in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the ‘Neo-Bartolists’ and the usus modernus pandectarum. It considers the rise of the Historical School in Germany and the corresponding movements elsewhere in continental Europe. Methodologically, the representatives of the Historical School were the first professional legal historians in the modern sense of the term. Finally, the chapter retells the story of the rise of European legal history in the post-war period, and the recent trends towards a creation of global legal histories. It shows that legal history’s turns have in many ways followed from not only legal scholarship in general, but also from developments in historical science and global politics.

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New Directions in Legal Scholarship: Implications for Business Ethics Research, Theory, and Practice

Business Ethics Quarterly ◽

10.5840/beq201020332 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 503-531 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

John Hasnas ◽

Robert Prentice ◽

Alan Strudler

Keyword(s):

Business Ethics ◽

Firm Behavior ◽

Law School ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Business Law ◽

Legal Scholarship ◽

Ethics Research ◽

New Directions ◽

Recent Trends ◽

Core Issues

ABSTRACT:Legal scholars and business ethicists are interested in many of the same core issues regarding human and firm behavior. The vast amount of legal research being generated by nearly 10,000 law school and business law scholars will inevitably influence business ethics research. This paper describes some of the recent trends in legal scholarship and explores its implications for three significant aspects of business ethics research—methodology, theory, and policy.

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