Authorities in Early Modern Courts in Europe

Guido Rossi is Lecturer in European Legal History at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on Legal History, especially late medieval and early modern Civil law, Canon law, and mercantile law. Guido has written a number of journal articles and book chapters and he is author of Insurance in Elizabethan England: The London Code (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

This is a stimulating and thought-provoking collection discussing an issue of fundamental concern to lawyers through the ages. It is a testament to the editor that the whole is greater than the sum of the valuable individual parts.

• A Note on Names and Book TitlesList of ContributorsPreface, Guido RossiThe Imperial Chamber Court and the Development of the Law in the Holy Roman Empire, Peter OestmannThe Parliament of Paris and the Making of the Law at the beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Isabelle Storez-BrancourtLaw Reports of the Parliament of Flanders and their Authority in the Parliament’s Practice, Géraldine Cazals, Sabrina Michel, and Alain Wijffels Legal fragmentation in the Dutch republic during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Philip ThomasLaw Reports as Legal Authorities, in Early-Modern Belgian Legal Practice, Alain WijffelsLegal Authorities in Castilian Courts’ Practice: Decisiones and Consilia to study the arbitrium iudicis, Javier García MartínLegal Authorities in the Making of Portuguese Private Law: Emphytheusis and Majorat in Practical Literature, Gustavo César Machado CabralUnder the legal authority of the Senate of Milan (16th-17th centuries), Annamaria MontiLaw Reporting, Authority and Precedent: The Common Law paradigm, David J IbbetsonParadigms of Authority in the College of Justice in Scotland, John D FordLegal Authorities in the Seventeenth-Century Swedish Empire, Heikki PihlajamäkiIura Scripta and Operae Iurisperiti in Municipal Courts of Kingdom of Poland in 16th-18th Centuries, Maciej MikułaBibliographyIndex of Names and Places