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The European Brotherhood of Lawyers: The Reinvention of Legal Science in the Making of European Private Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Harm Schepel
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Abstract

Against the historical backdrop of the codification debate in nineteenth century Germany, this article traces the reassertion of “legal science” as an autonomous source of European legal integration in current legal and political discourse about the harmonization of European private law. The article argues that a grasp of widely shared ideas about the role and function of legal science and legal scientists is vital both toward an understanding of the extraordinary impact of the academic project of a European civil code on legal and political discourse in the Union in particular, and toward furthering the theory of legal fields in general.

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Symposium: Law, Lawyers, and Transnational Politics in the Production of Europe
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Law & Social Inquiry , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , Winter 2007 , pp. 183 - 199
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Copyright © American Bar Foundation, 2007 

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