Commmon Law and Civil Law: the parallel convergences between two (non)communicating worlds. : Reconstructing a bold path from the Free Law School to the “Natur der sache”.

Abstract

This essay does not intend to identify the criteria that allow communication between the two systems of Common Law and Civil Law but rather to identify if and when in the history of legal philosophical thought there were the precursors for a possible theoretical communication. This moment is identified in the theses of the School of Free Law (Freirechtsbewegung) and, subsequently, of the «Natur der sache» within which the theorists, even the most revolutionary, had found a source of inspiration precisely in the systems of Common Law.