Ch. 3. THE CIVIL LAW TRADITION IN EUROPE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION

D. Revival of Roman Law

• The University as Institution
• sponsorship: Emperor, City and Pope
• structure
• students
• immunity from ecclesiastical, imperial and municipal taxes, protection from reprisals based on co-citizenship
• organizations based on nationality
• self-government through councils
• faculty
• regulation by students, as to content, capacity and diligence, only gradually superceded by the authority of sponsors
• primary compensation from lecture fees paid by individual students
• moonlighting by most popular
• only gradual development of salary structure
• The Curriculum and Methods of Study
• first principle: authority of Roman texts
• Code and Novels for public law
• Digest for private law
• schools of interpretation and their literary forms
• Glossators
• Commentators
• Humanists
• methods of instruction
• lectures
• disputations
• reviews
• examinations and degrees: license, baccalaureate, doctorate
 
E. Canon Law
 
• taught in universities in competition with (secular) Roman Law
• not historical, but practical and contemporary in content
• reliance on Roman law models for organization, interpretation and instruction