Companion to Western Legal Traditions

Aniceto Masferrer, Ph.D. (2000), is Professor of Legal History at the University of Valencia. He has published around 25 monographs and edited volumes in Spanish and English, including The Making of Dignity and Human Rights in the Western Tradition. A Retrospective Analysis (Springer, 2023). He is also the editor of GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History.C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, Ph.D. (1997), is Professor of European Legal History at Maastricht University. He has published widely on European legal history, the history of courts and adjudication, and modern civil procedure. He is an editor of Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis and contributed as chair of the working group on Obligations of the Judge and the Parties to the Model European Rules of Civil Procedure (UNIDROIT/European Law Institute, 2021).Seán P. Donlan, Ph.D. (2002), is Professor of Law at Thompson Rivers University. He has published on comparative legal history, comparative law, and Irish history. In addition to editing the journal Comparative Legal History, his edited publications include Comparative Law: Mixes, Movements, and Metaphors (Routledge, 2020) and Legal Traditions in Louisiana and the Floridas, 1763-1848 (The Law Book Exchange, 2019).Cornelis Heesters, MA, LLM, is an independent researcher, writer, editor, and translator living in Baltimore.

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• Notes on ContributorsWestern Legal Traditions: An IntroductionAniceto Masferrer, C.H. van Rhee, Seán P. Donlan and Cornelis Heesters1 Antiquity (753 bc–565 ad)Jan Hallebeek2 Early Middle Ages (500–1100)Stephan Dusil, Bernd Kannowski and Gerald Schwedler3 High and Late Middle Ages (1100–1500)Dirk Heirbaut and Heikki Pihlajamäki4 From Ius Commune Multi-normativity to a Sovereign Legislator (1500–1650)Adolfo Giuliani5 1650–1775Jean-Louis Halpérin6 Revolutionary Period and Nineteenth Century (1776–1900)Aniceto Masferrer and C.H. van Rhee7 Contemporary Period (1900–Present)Olivier Moréteau, Agustín Parise and Jacques Vanderlinden†Index