Open AccessMapping the history of codification
Author(s) -
Jean Halpérin
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
revista da faculdade de direito da universidade de são paulo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2318-8235
pISSN - 0303-9838
DOI - 10.11606/issn.2318-8235.v112i0p485-508
Subject(s) - unification , construct (python library) , code (set theory) , politics , order (exchange) , law , point (geometry) , civil code , sociology , computer science , epistemology , law and economics , political science , mathematics , philosophy , economics , programming language , geometry , set (abstract data type) , finance
Bentham has defended the idea of a general codification as a “map of the law” that could allow the comparison between the laws of different nations. This essay aims to use this relationship about the ideas of codifying the law and mapping the laws to think about the possibility of mapping the history of codification, taking as its point of departure the writing specialized codes - not only the civil codes. Mapping can be a means to deal with the relationships between the countries adopting a code, the opportunity to consider the relationships between the codes and the creation of new States, the national processes of unification, the adoption, the political and social revolutions and ruptures. Also, it will try to make correspondences between these phenomena in order to construct tables that could be represented through future maps.