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Historicity of law : law as a phenomenon of history in the theory of the german historical school

• Κιτσάκης, Σταύρος

By the end of the 18th and at the outset of the 19th century two of the most famous Codifications of law made their appearance: The Prussian “Landrecht” and the Code Civil. The inherent claim of such a systematic collection of legal rules was to comprehensively regulate various aspects of social life. That claim provoked the emergence of a school of legal thought: The school of Historical jurisprudence. Friedrich Carl von Savigny, the undisputed leader of that school, argued against a codification of German law, in his essay “Vom Beruf unserer Zeit für Gesetzgebung und Wissenschaft”, written in 1815, where he laid the ground for the analysis of law as a so- cio-historical phenomenon and shaped the language of such analysis with expressions such as: “Volksgeist” and “Recht als Organismus” (law as an organism). His theory on the sources of law emphasises the complexity of law creation drafting it as a multilayered procedure. His most important follower. Georg Friedrich Puchta, focused on the most innovative part of this theory, on customary law. and gave to it the necessary depth that linked it directly with major movements of philosophical thought of the 19th century (Hegel, Fichte). The school of Historical Jurisprudence advanced to significant influence in Greece already in the 1830ies through the writings of two of the most distinguished Professors of Law of that time: Pavlos Kalligas and Petros Paparrigopoulos.

• Law
• History and Archaeology

• Δίκαιο
• Ιστορία
• Εκπαίδευση

ιστορική σχολή του δικαίου, κωδικοποίηση, Σαβινύ, Πούχτα, λαϊκό πνεύμα, εθιμικό δίκαιο, Καλλιγάς, Παπαρρηγόπουλος, historical jurisprudence, codification, Savigny, Puchta, Volksgeist, customary law, Kalligas, Paparrigopoulos