DIE ROMANISTISCHE FORSCHUNG IN SLOWENIEN*
THE RESEARCH OF ROMAN LAW IN SLOVENIA

Summary/Abstract: The research of Roman law is inseparably connected to the development of legal teaching in Europe. Until the Second World War, Roman law represented an essential part of the legal curricula at European faculties of law. The advantages of studying Roman law were obvious: by understanding the intricacies of Roman law, the student could perceive the legal system as a whole, develop a precise and concise legal language, learn to comprehensively and precisely analyse legal texts, learn the historical and social dimensions of law, become familiar with the Latin legal terminology, the lingua franca of the learned lawyers, etc. The teaching of Roman law went hand in hand with its research. As the presence of Roman law in the legal curricula has been considerably diminished during the last decades, so has the research thereof. It would be wrong, however, to abandon further research of Roman law. In some form, both teaching and research of Roman law are essential for the legal studies if we want to educate legal intellectuals and not mere legal technicians.

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