Paolo Grossi, A HISTORY OF EUROPEAN LAW. Translated by Laurence Hooper Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell (http://eu.wiley.com), The Making of Modern Europe, 2010. xiv + 203 pp. ISBN 9781405152945. £70.

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AuthorPaul J du Plessis
DOI10.3366/elr.2011.0069
Published date01 September 2011
Date01 September 2011
Pages495-497

The series of which this book forms part, The Making of Modern Europe, is an ambitious collaboration between five European publishers. Each book in the series will be translated into five languages (German, Italian, English, Spanish and French). The aim of this series is to provide “informative, readable and provocative treatments of central themes in the history of European peoples and their cultures”. This is a grand claim, but given the stellar names which have thus far been published in this series (Umberto Eco to name but one), combined with the high quality of the books and their broad dissemination through translation, it has every chance of success.

Paolo Grossi is one of the leading figures in the study of the ius commune in Italian academia. He is professor of the history of medieval and modern law at the University of Florence, a member of the Academia dei Lincei and has also recently been appointed to the constitutional court of the Italian Republic. He is the author of a number of important books on various aspects of the ius commune, the most widely known of which is his L'Ordine guiridico medievale (2006).

The book covers the period from the Middle Ages to c 1950 when the first attempts at the...

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