Development of the Political and Legal Thought in Europe in the Modern Period

Abstract

In this article, the authors analyze the effect of the works by the professors of law on the formation of the European political and legal tradition of the early modern period. They explore the German Protestant school of law and the works by its representatives. Special emphasis is placed on the study of the German political and legal thought of the 17th century and the formation of the public administration ideas in Germany in the mentioned period. The authors reveal the history of the lives and scientific work of the famous German legal scholars H. Conring, J. Lipsius and V. L. von Seckendorf, and they characterize the key propositions of their political and legal doctrines. The authors of this article explore the political and legal thought of the German thinkers that are not so well known in the modern historical and legal science but still no less important in the history of the political and legal thought.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n4s2p601