Title: The European Brotherhood of Lawyers: The Reinvention of Legal Science in the Making of European Private Law
Abstract: Law & Social InquiryVolume 32, Issue 1 p. 183-199 The European Brotherhood of Lawyers: The Reinvention of Legal Science in the Making of European Private Law Harm Schepel, Harm Schepel Reader in Law at Kent Law School, Co-Director of the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law, Deputy Director of the Brussels School of International Studies, University of KentSearch for more papers by this author Harm Schepel, Harm Schepel Reader in Law at Kent Law School, Co-Director of the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law, Deputy Director of the Brussels School of International Studies, University of KentSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 March 2007 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-4469.2007.00055.xCitations: 10 Harm Schepel: Drs (Amsterdam), LL.M. (IISL Oñati), Ph.D. (EUI Florence), Reader in Law at Kent Law School, Co-Director of the Kent Centre for European and Comparative Law, Deputy Director of the Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent. Correspondence welcome at [email protected]. Thanks to Jacobien Rutgers, Christian Joerges, and three anonymous reviewers for good advice and criticism. The usual disclaimer applies. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL 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. REFERENCES Note: All primary sources of German nineteenth century private law cited with their original dates of publication are available in full in the digital library of the Max-Planck-Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main: http://dlib-pr.mpier.mpg.de/index.htm. Last accessed September 25, 2006. 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