Judges, Legislators and Professors: Chapters in European Legal HistoryOn the basis of ten concrete examples the author shows by what process and for what historical reasons continental law and common law have come to be so different. In so doing van Caenegem provides a historical introduction to continental law understandable to readers familiar with the common law, and vice versa. This study is derived from the professor's lectures at Cambridge in 1984 85, in which lawyers from Europe, Great Britain and the United