In the academic year 2025/26, this course will be streamed

Starting with general questions about justice and alternative dispute resolutions as a Christian ideal, the course then focuses on the Roman judiciary and the English Common law courts. Both provide specific examples of a subject-driven, supplementary judicial system rather than one developing according to a gouvernment's decision to expand its own political power as such aiming at a monopolistic situation. For each period the interaction between secular and Church courts is given a particular attention, allowing for another perspective on the same question of the role and nature of State institutions in a context of judicial pluralism. 

Bachelor/Master: This course can be chosen as part of the "study credits achieved in English".

Master: This course can be chosen as part of the specific option "Religion" or "Règlement des litiges"

Starting with general questions about justice and alternative dispute resolutions as a Christian ideal, the course then focuses on the Roman judiciary and the English Common law courts. Both provide specific examples of a subject-driven, supplementary judicial system rather than one developing according to a gouvernment's decision to expand its own political power as such aiming at a monopolistic situation. For each period the interaction between secular and Church courts is given a particular attention, allowing for another perspective on the same question of the role and nature of State institutions in a context of judicial pluralism.