The influence of Roman law on the modern change of the legal paradigm

Abstract

Roman law occupies a unique place in the legal history of mankind. It represents the highest degree in the development of law in ancient society and in the ancient world as a whole.

It is distinguished, first of all, by an extremely wide coverage of the most diverse life relationships and situations. Various methods of protecting the interests of private owners, and even various participants in property turnover, were especially carefully developed in Roman law. It was the Romans, relying on all the previous world experience, including the countries of the East, who for the first time made individual private property, as well as other property rights and interests, the subject of skillful and perfect legal regulation. According to the results of Roman law, which was distinguished by the great development of its forms, the richest legal culture was formed, which became the common property of humanity in the following stages of the development of civilization.

One of the elements of legal culture was Roman jurisprudence, which initiated both an independent science of law and professional legal education.

The private law of Rome had a great influence on the subsequent history of law, and was adopted by many legal systems in the medieval era and in modern times. The achievements of Roman jurisprudence are also used in law and legal science even in those countries of the world where there is no division of law into public and private.

The uniqueness of Roman law also lies in the fact that the Romans managed to create universal, rational legal formulas, which later formed the basis of European civilization. For the first time, law-making was separated from its religious-mythological beginning, and law acquired not only an independent meaning, but began to be considered as the basis of civil order, a way to ensure the progress of society.