This paper deals with the study of law as an academic discipline, in two ways. First, the study of law within the university does not speak for itself: in contrast with classical Athens, where law was not at all considered to be a matter for specialists, or Norman England, where specialists with a vocational training came to deal with the ‘common law’, in continental Europe at the end of the 11th century the study of law developed into one of the core academic disciplines at the newly established universities, as a result of the revival of the Byzantine version of Roman law as the ius commune. Second, as an academic study, contrary to what is sometimes suggested, the methods available to its students are diverse. This paper shows that law can be studied with the help of methods comparable to the ones used in other academic disciplines, notably the natural sciences and the humanities.

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作为学科的法律研究

本文以两种方式处理作为一门学科的法律研究。首先，大学内部的法律研究并不能说明一切：与古典雅典相比，法律根本不被认为是专家的事，而诺曼英格兰则是经过职业培训的专家来解决法律问题。 “普通法”是11世纪末在欧洲大陆发展起来的法学研究，这是由于拜占庭式的罗马法作为ius公社的复兴而成为新兴大学的核心学术学科之一。 。其次，作为一项学术研究，与有时提出的建议相反，可供学生使用的方法多种多样。本文表明，可以使用与其他学术领域类似的方法来研究法律，