法律科学的诞生

Origins and Development of Roman Legal Science

法律科学是这样的一门学科,它研究法现象,理性地将法置于一定的框架之下,它对法进行构造,以便对规范的诠释可以在任何情况下通过可验证的逻辑程序进行。在人类的法律文化史上,正宗法律科学之发育肇始于罗马社会,而在古近东国家以及古希腊社会,并不能发现法律科学之痕迹。

Legal science is a discipline that studies the law and sets it rationally in a certain frame. It explores the law by applying logical procedures, which are verifiable at each step of the process, to interpret legal rules. In the history of human legal culture, a real science of law is developed for the first time in the Roman world. There are no significant traces of legal science in the countries of ancient Near East or ancient Greece.