论学派在民法典编纂中的作用

Role of law school in civil codification

Merrman教授认为,在大陆法系国家,法律舞台上的主角是法学家,而法典编纂的动向也取决于当时占压倒性地位的法学派。本文拟采用美籍华人黄仁宇先生在其《万历十五年》一书中提出的"大历史观"的思维方式,意图选取大陆法系国家法律发展史上三部最重要法典的编纂来管窥法学派在民法典制定中所起的作用。

Professor Merrman proposes that the protagonist on the law stage of the civil law countries is the jurist and codification tendency depends on the overwhelming law school.This article discusses the role of the law school in the making of civil code by examining the compilation of three most important codes in the history of civil law,using the macro-historical way of thinking proposed by Mr.Huang Renyu,a Chinese-American scholar,in his 1587,A Year of No Significance.