Summary of Contents

Table of Contents ix

Abbreviations xv

Introduction xix

Lecture 1: The End of an Era: Transformation

of Scholarship in Roman Law 1

Lecture 2: The Transition from Civil Law to Civil Code in

Germany: Dawn of a New Era? 53

Lecture 3: A Change in Perspective: European Private

Law and its Historical Foundations 107

Final Observations 187

Index

191