Teaching Roman law in the 21st century:A note on legal-historical education in the Netherlands

Can Roman law still be a useful part of the compulsory curricular programme for legal education in the Netherlands At the beginning of the nineteenth century Roman law taught the student a further systematization of private law. Later it was seen as an introduction to present-day private law, irrespective of whether it was taught in a pandectistic or a more historical way. For the second half of the twentieth century three divergent approaches could be discerned i.e. a 'pandectistic', a 'neo-humanistic' and a 'legal historical' one. Given this until recently existing state of legal education,... Mehr ...