Europe as Community of Law

Authors

  • Michael Stolleis Universidad de Frankfurt am Main

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17811/hc.v0i10.241

Keywords:

Europe, community based on law, legal history, Ius commune, Ius canonicum, natural law and international law, Ius commune publicum.

Abstract

Europe has learned through wars and civil wars that a common future can exist only as a community organized by law. The present contribution sketches Europe’s historical roots in the legal history of the “ius commune” and “ius canonicum”, but mostly of “the “ius commune publicum”, consisting of natural law and international law, fundamental rights and the constitution as a central idea of modernity.

Submission date: 02/05/2009

Acceptance date: 25/05/2009

Author Biography

Michael Stolleis, Universidad de Frankfurt am Main

Catedrático de Derecho Público en la Universidad de Frankfurt am Main desde 1974, y director del Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte desde 1991; es Doctor honoris causa por las Universidades de Lund, Toulouse, Padua. Ha sido galardonado con el Premio Leibniz de la Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (1991) y con el Premio de la Balzan-Stiftung (2000). Sus publicaciones ponen de manifiesto no sólo la amplitud de sus intereses como historiador del Derecho Público, sino también la variedad de las perspectivas con las que aborda su tarea. Pueden citarse al efecto, además de los tres tomos de su monumental Geschichte des öffentlichen Rechts in Deutschland (1988, 1992, 1999, con traducciones parciales al francés, al inglés y al italiano), sus escritos metodológicos Rechtsgeschichte schreiben. Rekonstruktion, Erzählung, Fiktion? (2008) y Rechtsgeschichte als Kunstprodukt. Zur Entbehrlichkeit von «Begriff» und «Tatsache» (1997), así como, sólo a modo de ejemplo, los libros Der menschenfreundliche Ton. 24 Kalendergeschichten von Johann Peter Hebel mit kleinem Kommentar (2003, 2ª ed. en 2004), Im Namen des Gesetzes (2004) y Das Auge des Gesetzes. Geschichte einer Metapher (2004, ya traducido al inglés y al francés), y los artículos “Das Reich als Mythos und Metapher”, “Die Idee des souveränen Staates”, “Was kommt nach dem souveränen Nationalstaat? Und was kann die Rechtsgeschichte dazu sagen?”, “Das europäische Haus und seine Verfassung”, “Vormodernes und postmodernes Recht” y “Die Legitimation von Recht und Gesetz durch Gott, Tradition, Wille, Natur, Vernunft und Verfassung”.

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No. 10 (2009): Historia Constitucional N. 10 (2009)

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