The 'Third Renaissance of Roman Law' in the Nineteenth Century
This surprising phenomenon of a 'third renaissance of Roman law' on both a theoretical and practical level in the areas of application of all of the great Natural law codifications is in stark contrast to the expectations and intentions of the draftsmen of these codes, and largely even contrary to what they specifically laid down.20 But it meant that at
*" Brauneder (n.
15) 182 refers to a turn to the Historical SchCode became the focal point for legal training in the universities of the respective states. Just as they were neglected, at first, by legal scholarship, so they only constituted an appendix in the lecture lists of the law faculties. And even where and when the academic elaboration of these laws had reached the level of the modern requirements, there was no change in their position within the curriculum. For since such elaboration had principally consisted in establishing the inner relationship between the codified legal material and the ins commune, the importance of a legal training in the ius commune was thereby re-emphasized: such training was regarded as suitable to provide a sufficient introduction to the understanding of the codified laws. Thus, the possibility existed that the Prussian, Saxonian or the native of Baden could receive his educational background in law at a university in a different state, as long as he acquired, at the end of his studies, some more specific—not necessarily very profound— knowledge of the legal system which, however, he might be required to apply for the rest of his life.212.
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