A S L 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Hugo Grotius, Middle Ages, Protestantism
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Bartolus is the jurist who gave his name to a new school of the practice of roman law, known as the school of the bartolists or the commentators. Unlike the glossators, who focused on interpretation of. Corpus iuris civilis, the commentators used corpus iuris as a source of legal rules to apply to current issues in law. Bartolus laid thegroundwork for the conflicts of laws. Also, he was an author of consilia (expert legal advice), qaestiones (disputed legal issues), tractatae and lecturae. He is the father of international private law. His follower baldus perfected the consilium as a genre of legal writing. In the 16th century, people were interested in the corpus iuris civilis as a source of knowledge of. They condemned the work of the glossators and the commentators. Their efforts were devoted to reconstructing the original meaning of the justinian texts. An important representative of this new movement was.