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Robert Joseph Pothier

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contribution to Napoleonic code

  • Lee Kuan Yew
    In legal profession: Teaching and scholarship

    …18th-century teacher, advocate, and judge Robert Joseph Pothier, whose commentaries provided the foundation for the Napoleonic Code of civil law. Much law teaching in the new university law schools that sprang up in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Commonwealth in the 19th and 20th centuries was initially…

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