Skip to main content

Le Douaren, François

Born: 1509

Died: 1559

  • Living reference work entry
  • First Online:
Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy
  • 275 Accesses

Abstract

François Le Douaren, French jurist of the sixteenth century, is one of the greatest representatives of the legal humanism. In his books (four volumes in folio for his opera omnia), he applies a systematic method, which criticizes the structure of the Corpus Juris Civilis and breaks with the scholastic method of the medieval jurisprudence.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Institutional subscriptions

References

Primary Literature

  • Le Douaren, F. 1765–1768. Opera Omnia. Lucca. J. Rocchii

    Google Scholar 

Secondary Literature

  • Jobbé-Duval, É. 1912. François le Douaren (Duarenus), 1509–1559. In Mélanges P. F. Girard, Études de droit romain dédiées à M. P. F. Girard à l’occasion du 60 e anniversaire de sa naissance (26 octobre 1912), t. 1, 573–621. Paris. A. Rousseau

    Google Scholar 

  • Vogt, W. 1971. Franciscus Duarenus (1505–1559), Seine didaktisches Reformprogramm und seine Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der Zivilrechtsdogmatik. Stuttgart. W. Kohlhammer

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

Authors

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Xavier Prévost .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2014 Springer International Publishing Switzerland

About this entry

Cite this entry

Prévost, X. (2014). Le Douaren, François. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_296-1

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_296-1

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Cham

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-02848-4

  • eBook Packages: Springer Reference Religion and PhilosophyReference Module Humanities and Social SciencesReference Module Humanities

Publish with us

Policies and ethics