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Antonios Emmanuel Platsas, Leeds Beckett University, United KingdomAbstract
The discipline of law has to rediscover its original universal educational configuration. The subject of law with its roots lost in the passage of time, from the study of justice, fairness and equity in Greek philosophy to Gaius’s Institutes in the second Century AD and the Institutes of the Justinian codification in the sixth Century AD, is one that was once deemed rather universal in its educational configuration and philosophical outlook. The revival of the study of law otherwise occurred in Bologna in the eleventh Century AD and the subject grew significantly post the 1648 Westphalian paradigm, which marked a new era for the discipline of law altogether: the rise of the modern nation state and, by extension, the legal codifications movement. The paper, taking into account all these developments, posits that the subject of law was once international in and of itself; so were many of its educational aspects. It further posits that law as a discipline has to rediscover its traditional spirit of universality in furtherance of a more cosmopolitan educational paradigm. The paper concludes with an overview of its main findings.
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Conference: ECE2025Stream: International Education
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Platsas A. (2025) As Fire Burns Both Here and in Persia: The Internationalisation of Legal Education as a Cosmopolitan Educational Paradigm ISSN: 2188-1162 The European Conference on Education 2025: Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 753-762) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2188-1162.2025.59
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