‘Ius commune graeco-romanum’: Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Laurent Waelkens

As a tribute to their academic teacher and to further his interests, the

students of Prof. Dr. Laurent Waelkens collected fifteen scholarly

contributions on ius commune graeco-romanum, written by academics

from eleven different countries, mainly but not exclusively from Eastern

Europe. The book consists of three main parts. In the first part, four

authors focus on the Graeco-Roman law in the Roman Empire itself. In the

second part, five contributions concern the influence of Graeco-Roman

law outside of the Byzantine Empire. The six contributions of the third

and final part study the impact of the Western ius commune

tradition on Eastern European countries. Thus, the volume highlights the

continued importance of the study of Roman law for the understanding of

our common pan-European legal heritage.