Die Botschaft des europäischen Rechts und ihre Vitalität: gestern, heute, morgen

Abstract

The author wishes to identify the legal message given by Europe in the Middle Ages and in contemporary times, when a legal entity was achieved therein. This message has ancient roots, but has the following common elements: achievement of a legal unit, while also respecting internal diversity; enhancement of the value of jurists in legal production (because law is the field of jurists, and not of politicians); and especially enhancement of the value of legal science, for its capacity to establish harmonising and generally boundless principles.
It is singular that this enhancement of the value of jurists and legal science may also be found in the great movement often called legal globalisation, a movement borne of the needs of the global economic market, and in which jurists and legal science play a decisive part.