FROM GENERAL LEGAL HISTORY TOWARDS COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS
FROM GENERAL LEGAL HISTORY TOWARDS COMPARATIVE LEGAL TRADITIONS

Summary/Abstract: The so called Bologna process has incited a kind of “cultural revolution“ in law schools’ curricula all over Europe. Positivistic and empirical approaches, practical specializations and utilitarian demands are given priority by the Bologna reforms. The process compresses the teaching of legal history into fewer courses, emphasizing professional and applied learning outcomes over the traditional liberal arts-centered model of legal education. Skills and practical knowledge are favored, sometimes at the expense of gaining a profound comprehension and intellectual understanding of the underlying principles of law and the social and historical dynamic through which they developed. I believe that seemingly “impractical“ topics like legal history actually strengthen the applied portion of the curriculum. In reality, nothing is as practical, particularly in a time of rapid social and technological change, as a clear appreciation of the historical, moral and ethical principles that form the basis of the modern legal order.

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