(Book Review) Idea-Systems in Law: Images of Nineteenth-Century Germany - James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (1990) & Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code (1989)

David J. Gerber

doi:10.2307/743817

(Book Review) Idea-Systems in Law: Images of Nineteenth-Century Germany - James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (1990) & Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code (1989)

David J. Gerber

Chicago-Kent College of Law

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Abstract

Review of books by James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Pp. xi, 281 $39.50 (ISBN: 0-691-05560-2) and Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989. Pp. 277 $64.00 (ISBN: 0-19-822748-5).

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	153-167
Journal	Law and History Review
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2307/743817
State	Published - 1992

Keywords

Roman Law
German Law

Disciplines

European Law
Legal History
Civil Law

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Gerber, D. J. (1992). (Book Review) Idea-Systems in Law: Images of Nineteenth-Century Germany - James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (1990) & Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code (1989). Law and History Review, 10(1), 153-167. https://doi.org/10.2307/743817

(Book Review) Idea-Systems in Law: Images of Nineteenth-Century Germany - James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (1990) & Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code (1989). / Gerber, David J.
In: Law and History Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1992, p. 153-167.

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Gerber, DJ 1992, '(Book Review) Idea-Systems in Law: Images of Nineteenth-Century Germany - James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (1990) & Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code (1989)', Law and History Review, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 153-167. https://doi.org/10.2307/743817

Gerber DJ. (Book Review) Idea-Systems in Law: Images of Nineteenth-Century Germany - James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (1990) & Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code (1989). Law and History Review. 1992;10(1):153-167. doi: 10.2307/743817

Gerber, David J. / (Book Review) Idea-Systems in Law: Images of Nineteenth-Century Germany - James Q. Whitman, The Legacy of Roman Law in the German Romantic Era: Historical Vision and Legal Change (1990) & Michael John, Politics and the Law in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany: The Origin of the Civil Code (1989). In: Law and History Review. 1992 ; Vol. 10, No. 1. pp. 153-167.

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