Objective: 
Lectures deal with the main features and values of the European Legal Culture seen from the historical perspective. They also provide a glimpse into Polish legal culture in broader international perspective.

The aim:
To familiarize students with the achievements of the European legal culture in both public and private law.
To show the coherence of the European legal tradition, which consists of historic experience of many regional and national cultures.
Pointing out the place of the Polish legal history in a broader European perspective.

Acquired knowledge:
Student acquires knowledge about historical evolution and main conditions of development of the tradition of private and public law in Europe.
During lectures student acquires some details concerning historical sources, structure, functions and principles of international law, e.g. pacta sunt servenda, clausula rebus sic stantibus etc.
Student has basic knowledge of economics, sociology and political science.

Acquired skills:
When asking questions or writing e-mails to a lecturer student correctly formulates statesments in legal English.
When using elements of legal institutions from the past, student is able to solve simple cases requiring legal and interdisciplinary knowledge.
Contemplating events from the past student is able to formulate simple conclusions de lege lata and the lege ferenda.
During lectures student is applying theoretical knowledge for analysing European legal culture, he/she critically selects methods of analysis and formulates his/her own opinions.
Student uses at least one foreign language, when learnig legal terminology.

Developed reflection:
During the course student notices ethical, economical and political implications of selected legal systems in the past and present.
On examples taken from the history student sees the effects of his/her legal, moral, social, economical and professional activities as a lawyer and man.
While studying European Legal Culture student explains social problems and their multilateral relationships with the law.

Assessment: 
The final grade consists of: exam, class activity, student own work.

Contents: 
Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel and Greece – Rise and Organisation of States in Antiquity
Public Law in Ancient Rome
Administration in the Middle Ages
Revival of Public Law in Modernity till the French Revolution
Public Law from the Time of the French Revolution
Administrative Law in the Second Polish Republic
Concept and System of Private law
History and sources of Roman Private Law
Historical Development of Civil Procedure
Main Institutions of Civil Procedure
Principles of Personal and Family Law
Property Law
Law of Obligations
Inheritance Law
Main features of European Legal Culture

Recommended reading: 
Roman Law in European History, P. Stein, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999
European Legal History: Sources and Institutions, O.F. Robinson, T.D. Fergus, W.M.Gordon, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000