Savigny's family/patrimony distinction and its place in the global genealogy of classical legal thought

American Journal of Comparative Law

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 811-842

  Kennedy, Duncan ^a  

^a HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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EID: 84873885464     PISSN: 0002919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5131/ajcl.2010.0003     Document Type: Article

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1. PRIEDRICH CARL VON SAVIGNY, SYSTEM OF THE MODERN ROMAN LAW (William Holloway trans., Hyperion Press 1979) (1867).
2. FREDERICK CHARLES VON SAVIGNY, OF THE VOCATION OF OUR AGE FOR LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE (Abraham Hayward trans., The Lawbook Exchange 2002) (1831).
3. But see Michael H. Hoeflich, Savigny and His Anglo-American Disciples, 37 AM. J. COMP. L. 17 (1989).
4. Janet Halley, What is Family Law? A Genealogy, 22 YALE J.L. & HUMAN. (forthcoming 2010).
5. see generally Prances Olsen, The Family and the Market: A Study of Ideology and Legal Reform, 96 HARV. L. REV. 1497 (1983).
6. FRIEDRICH CARL VON SAVIGNY, PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE RETROSPECTIVE OPERATION OF STATUTES (2d ed, William Guthrie trans., Edinburgh, T & T. Clark Law Publishers 1880) (1869).
7. Id. § 349, at 78-79 (footnotes omitted). Savigny's second class of exceptional laws includes those based on "reasons of public interest," and his main example is "laws which restrict the acquisition of immoveable property by Jews." Id. at 78. On Savigny's anti-semitism, See Alfred Dufour, Pour ou contre de nouveaux Codes: Autour d'un des écrits programmatiques les plus negliges de Savigny, 1 ANNUAIRE DE l'INSTITUT MICHEL VILLEY 77, 90-91 (2009).
8. On nesting, see Duncan Kennedy, A Semiotics of Legal Argument, 42 SYRACUSE L. REV. 75 (1991);
9. an enlarged version is in DUNCAN KENNEDY, LEGAL REASONING: COLLECTED ESSAYS (2008);
10. See also Jack M. Balkin, Nested Oppositions, 99 YALE L. J. 1669 (1990).
11. FRANZ WIEACKER, A HISTORY OF PRIVATE LAW IN EUROPE: WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO GERMANY 287-88 (Tony Weir trans., 1996);
12. John Toews, The Immanent Genesis and Transcendent Goal of Law: Savigny, Stahl, and the Ideology of the Christian German State, 37 AM J. COMP. L. 139 (1989).
13. See FILIPPO E. VASSALLI, DEL IUS IN CORPUS, DEL DEBITUM CONIUGALE E DELLA SERVITUU d'AMORE OVVEROSIA LA DOGMATICA LUDRICA (Rome: Bardi, 1944).
14. Reva B. Siegel, "The Rule of Love": Wife Beating as Prerogative and Privacy, 105 YALE L.J. 2117(1996).
15. See KARMA NABULSI, TRADITIONS OF WAR: OCCUPATION, RESISTANCE, AND THE LAW (2005).
16. On the similarities and many differences between Savigny and Hegel, see ALDO SCHIAVONE, ALLE ORIGINI DEL DIRITTO BORGHESE: HEGEL CONTRA SAVIGNY (Roma: Laterza, 1984).
17. E.g., Thomas C. Grey, Langdell's Orthodoxy, 45 U. PITT. L. REV. 1 (1983).
18. See DUNCAN KENNEDY, THE RISE AND FALL OF CLASSICAL LEGAL THOUGHT (Beard Books 2006) (1975).
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21. Wolfram Muller-Freienfels, The Emergence of Droit de Famille and Familienrecht in Continental Europe and the Introduction of Family Law in England, 28 J. FAM. HIST. 31, 34 (2003).
22. See Duncan Kennedy, The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries, 28 BUFF. L. REV. 205 (1979).
23. IMMANUEL KANT, THE METAPHYSICS OF MORALS (Mary Gregor trans., Cambridge University Press 1996) (1797).
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28. See generally Duncan Kennedy, Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000, in THE NEW LAW AND DEVELOPMENT: A CRITICAL APPRAISAL 19 (David Trubek & Alvaro Santos eds., 2006).
29. This is a slightly expanded version of Duncan Kennedy, Two Globalizations of Law & Legal Thought: 1850-1968, 36 SUFFOLK U. L. REV. 631 (2002-2003).
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31. The above account is taken from Robert Campbell, Introduction to JOHN AUSTIN, LECTURES ON JURISPRUDENCE OR THE PHILOSOPHY OF POSITIVE LAW: THE STUDENT'S EDITION (Murray, 1913) (1875).
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37. KARUNA MANTENA, ALIBIS OF EMPIRE: HENRY MAINE AND THE ENDS OF LIBERAL IMPERIALISM, ch. 3 (2010); Faisal Chaudhry, Charting the Rise of the Law as an Object of Normative Consciousness in Late Colonial India (2010, unpublished manuscript on file with the author).
38. see generally JANAKI NAIR, WOMEN AND LAW IN COLONIAL INDIA: A SOCIAL HISTORY (1996).
39. See, in general, JOSE MARÍA OTS Y CAPDEQUÍ, EL DERECHO DE FAMILIA Y EL DERECHO DE SUCESIÓN EN NUESTRA LEGISLACION DE INDIAS (1921);
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42. See PARTHA CHATTERJEE, THE NATION AND ITS FRAGMENTS: COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL HISTORIES chs. 6-7 (1993). For the sequellae,
43. see BRENDA COSSMAN & RATNA KAPUR, SECULARISM'S LAST SIGH? HINDUTVA AND THE (MIS) RULE OF LAW (2001).
44. Lama Abu-Odeh, Honor Killings and the Construction of Gender in Arab Societies, 58 AM. J. COMP. L. 911 (2010).
45. Philomila Tsoukala, Marrying Family Law to the Nation, 58 AM. J. COMP. L. 873 (2010).
46. John Duncan Martin Derrett, The Role of Roman Law and Continental Laws in India, 24 Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 657, 670-83 (1959).