Tony Weir is a brilliant translator of legal German, and here he has surpassed himself. For this we should be all the more grateful, because Franz Wieacker was one of the great German scholars of the postwar world. His range and depth of learning are unsurpassed..This, in my opinion, is the best general book on European legal history in any language. I say "general" because of the breadth of the enterprise, but it is nonetheless detailed, original, and insightful...it is a book that all legal historians will need to keep close at hand for constant reference...We owe a great debt to Weir for making this work accessible to an English-reading public.

Tony Weir is a brilliant translator of legal German, and here he has surpassed himself. For this we should be all the more grateful, because Franz Wieacker was one of the great German scholars of the postwar world. His range and depth of learning are unsurpassed..This, in my opinion, is the best general book on European legal history in any language. I say "general" because of the breadth of the enterprise, but it is nonetheless detailed, original, and insightful...it is a book that all legal historians will need to keep close at hand for constant reference...We owe a great debt to Weir for making this work accessible to an English-reading public.

Tony Weir is a brilliant translator of legal German, and here he has surpassed himself. For this we should be all the more grateful, because Franz Wieacker was one of the great German scholars of the postwar world. His range and depth of learning are unsurpassed..This, in my opinion, is the best general book on European legal history in any language. I say "general" because of the breadth of the enterprise, but it is nonetheless detailed, original, and insightful...it is a book that all legal historians will need to keep close at hand for constant reference...We owe a great debt to Weir for making this work accessible to an English-reading public.