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Lecture
Number of hours:  2h X 8 weeks = 16 hours (1 semester)

Objective: 
To familiarize students with the achievements of the European legal culture in both public and private law.
To show the coherence of the European legal tradition, which consists of historic experience of many regional and national cultures.
Pointing out the place of the Polish legal history in a broader European perspective.

Contents: 
Lectures deal with main features and values of the European Legal Culture seen from the historical perspective. They are based on the division into public and private law. The lectures also provide a glimpse into Polish legal culture in broader international perspective.

Lectures
1. Rise and Organisation of States in Antiquity.
2. Administration in the Middle Ages.
3. Revival of Public Law in Modernity till the French Revolution.
4. Public Law from the Time of the French Revolution.
5. Concept and System of Private law.
6. Property Law.
7. Law of Obligations.
8. Test.

Recommended reading: 

• European Legal History: Sources and Institutions, O.F. Robinson, T.D. Fergus, W.M.Gordon, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000
• History of the Common Law: The Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions, J. H. Langbein, R. L. Lerner, B. P. Smith, Aspen Publishers, Aspen, 2009
• An Historical Introduction to Private Law, R. C. van Caenegem, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999
• Roman Law in European History, P. Stein, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999