Home›Civil Law Scholars and Codifiers›All Civil Law Scholars and CodifiersBrowse ByAll Civil Law Scholars and CodifiersReference and ClassificationVerifiedScholars who wrote or drafted the civilian codes that anchor the civil law tradition outside the common law world. Belongs here: Friedrich Carl von Savigny and Rudolf von Jhering as founders of the German historical and interest-based schools of civil law, Eugen Huber as principal drafter of the Swiss Civil Code, Louis Moreau-Lislet as a principal redactor of the Louisiana Civil Code, Ahmed Cevdet Pasha as the principal author of the Ottoman Mecelle, and Hozumi Nobushige as a principal drafter of the Civil Code of Japan. Does not belong here: an ancient Roman jurist whose work these scholars studied rather than a modern codifier, grouped under ancient and Roman law jurists instead.FactsAll Civil Law Scholars and CodifiersSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonDefining CharacteristicWell-attestedCivil law is a legal system rooted in the Roman Empire and comprehensively codified and disseminated starting in the 19th century, most notably with France's Napoleonic Code. 1All Civil Law Scholars and CodifiersFilter Results201 entriesRoleAll-American lawyer (1)-British barrister and legal scholar (1)19th-century French politician of the French Third Republic (1)Academic, humanitarian and human rights activist (1)Attorney and politician (1)Authority in civil and canon law (1)Barrister and politician (1)Canonist and liturgical writer, and Bishop of Mende (1)Catholic militant, theorist of society and politician (1)Diplomat and Lawyer (1)Feminist, lawyer, judge, and activist (1)Feyli Kurdish 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