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The roots of modern Western legal institutions and concepts go back nine centuries to the Papal Revolution, when the Western church established its political an

The last one hundred years have seen a number of events that could be perceived as disruptive challenges to the normal operation of the legal order. Some have b

What is the effect of revolutions on legal systems? What role do constitutions play in legitimating regimes? How do constitutions and revolutions converge or cl

Las Siete Partidas, or Seven Divisions, is the major law code of thirteenth-century Spain, compiled by Alfonso X the Learned of Castile. Seven centuries later,