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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024

The so-called mos gallicus: In Search of a Transnational History of the “French method of teaching law”

Legal history, as taught in faculties of law, tends to overemphasise the national framework, leading to the knowledge transmission that suffers from old-fashioned nationalistic biases. To overcome this bottleneck, I will challenge one of the most nationalistic reductions of a major legal phenomenon: the Legal humanism of the Renaissance. This European intellectual movement, with immense legal and extra-legal repercussions, is still presented today as mainly French, as shown by the expression commonly used to designate it: the mos gallicus jura docendi (French method of teaching law). Understanding the mos gallicus in its original transnational dimension will thus establish the simultaneous…

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