Guillermo Floris Margadant ’s work, La segunda vida del derecho romano
La Segunda Vida del Derecho Romano: Un Legado Duradero Guillermo Floris Margadant ’s work, La segunda vida
He unrolled his scroll. It was not a legal text, but a map of the world drawn in strange, modern lines. “I woke up in Bologna, in the 11th century. I saw Irnerius, that charlatan, scratching his beard over a copy of the Digest. I whispered in his ear. I woke up in Göttingen in the 18th century, watching Savigny organize my scattered thoughts into a ‘System.’ I woke up in Mexico City in the 19th century, inside the head of a man named Justo Sierra, who was writing a civil code.” I saw Irnerius, that charlatan, scratching his beard
This moment, centuries ago, was the birth of the phenomenon that the great Mexican jurist Guillermo Floris Margadant would later call La Segunda Vida—The Second Life. La influencia del derecho romano en la legislación
La influencia del derecho romano en la legislación actual es innegable. Muchos de los conceptos básicos del derecho, como la propiedad, los contratos, la familia y la responsabilidad civil, tienen sus raíces en el derecho romano. Además, la estructura y la lógica jurídica que utilizamos hoy en día también están basadas en los modelos romanos.
The essay should highlight the progression of legal thought through several critical eras: The Glossators and Post-Glossators : These medieval scholars at the University of Bologna
