ABSTRACT
The development of the modern law is the story of how that accommodation was made and, in particular, how the techniques of juristic analysis, reasoning and presentation, which began with the jurists of ancient Rome but which were refashioned by the Glossators and Commentators of the mediaeval period, succeeded in producing from this conflict of legal cultures, modern systems which remain recognizably the inheritors of the Roman tradition while having been considerably enriched by the absorption of previously alien juristic concepts. The private law part looks at the law of actions in Roman times as a precursor to considering the law of procedure, both civil and criminal, as part of the public law of modern times. The public law part examines administrative law, a body of rules which has developed in some civilian countries over the last two centuries, and outlines the development of the legal professions which serve the needs of modern civilian systems.
