SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROF. DR. SC. PETAR SIMONETTI TO A CIVIL LAW LEGAL HERITAGE AND HISTORY OF LAW

Authors

  • Budislav Vukas Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
  • Ines Matić Faculty of Law, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.37.1.9

Keywords:

Prof. Petar Simonetti, Ph.D.; the right to build; the social ownership

Abstract

The intention of the authors of this paper is to emphasize the outstanding scientific contribution of Prof. Simonetti in the field of civil law legal history and the history of law, as well as the significance that his rich opus has to Roman law and history of law literature. Having in mind that the aim of this paper is not to provide a comprehensive review of the scientific activities of Prof. Simonetti, but a kind of historiographical contribution, the authors focused their attention primarily on the immeasurable contribution of Prof. Simonetti in a systematic and detailed analysis of the right to build, which has its beginnings in the Roman principle of superficies solo cedit. With his analysis of right to build prof. Simonetti unquestionably indebted civil law jurisprudence as well as roman legal science. Furthermore, from the very rich opus of the Prof. Simonetti the authors specially emphasize the institute of (social) ownership, by whose methodological synthesis and analysis prof. Simonetti is legitimized as a legal historian, displaying in his publications the entire history of the genesis of property rights and questioning the views of legal doctrine.

Published

2020-11-16

How to Cite

Vukas, B., & Matić, I. (2020). SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROF. DR. SC. PETAR SIMONETTI TO A CIVIL LAW LEGAL HERITAGE AND HISTORY OF LAW. Collected Papers of the Law Faculty of the University of Rijeka, 37(1), 251–266. https://doi.org/10.30925/zpfsr.37.1.9