Measuring the Openness of Lawyers? Minds by Roman Law? Panorama of a Far European Intellectual Province

Abstract

What is the purpose of a study to present comprehensively the condition and social impact of the civil law lawyers in 18th century England? It provided a broad panorama of a far European province, in particular legal and intellectual. The province is an intellectual and not a geographical term. Yet, a panorama should not be art for art?s sake. A comparative study based on it might be instructive, if a legal researcher is well acquainted with foreign jurisdiction and its legal history. There will always be a need for learned diagnoses and for the openness of lawyers? minds. Study of Roman law, if introduced and exercised as practical legal history, has proven to be one of good measures to provide the diagnoses and defeat provincial thinking in law.