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Santander

Studies with Spaniards - Winter 3 2009
History of Law

Language Level: Superior
History of Law
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course taken with: Primarily Local Students
University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain)

Course Description

Area of Study

Law

Prerequisites and Language Level

Superior
Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

Overview

Political and administrative sources and institutions. Primitive Spain. The romanisation of the law. The germanic influence. Islamic Spain. Diversification in the legal system of late medieval Spain. The Spanish Monarchy: the Austrians. The Spain of the Borbons. The era of constitutionalism and its encoding. Historical approach to private law. Laws on things. Laws on persons. Family Law. Hereditary Law. Commercial Law. Criminal Law. Procedural Law. Uncoded Law.