This book presents an analysis of global legal history in Modern times questioning the effect
of political revolutions since the 17th century on the legal field. Readers will discover a
non-linear approach to legal history as this work investigates the ways in which law is
created. These chapters look at factors in legal revolution such as the role of agents the
policy of applying and publicising legal norms codification and the orientations of legal
writing and there is a focus on the publicization of law. The author uses Herbert Hart¿s
schemes to conceive law as a human artefact or convention being the union between primary
rules of obligations and secondary rules conferring powers. Here we learn about those secondary
rules and the legal construction of the Modern state and we question the extent to which
codification and law reporting were likely to revolutionize the legal field. These chapters
examine the hypothesis of a legal revolution that could have concerned many countries in modern
times. To begin with the book considers the legal aspect of the construction of Modern States
in the 17th and 18th centuries. It goes on to examine the consequences of the codification
movement as a legal revolution before looking at the so-called ¿constitutional¿ revolution
linked with the extension of judicial review in many countries after World War II. Finally the
book enquires into the construction of an EU legal order and international law. In each of
these chapters the author measures the scope of the change how the secondary rules are
concerned the role of the professional lawyers and what are the characters of the new
configuration of the legal field. This book provokes new debates in legal philosophy about the
rule of change and will be of particular interest to researchers in the fields of law theories
of law legal history philosophy of law and historians more broadly.
