Author

WANG Dong (Law School of Shenzhen University)

Abstract

In recent years, scholars have been arguing about the influence of English law and ius commune on Magna Carta. In general terms, a small part of the Magna Carta is influenced by the ius commune, among whom influenced by the ecclesiastical law is more obvious, and only a few chapters can be inferred from the Roman law. The main source of Magna Carta is the English law developed in the Anglo-Saxon period. Magna Carta declared, succeeded and developed the initially formed common law, was the core document of the common law, and later became the foundational document of English Statues.

Published on Economic and Social History Review, Issue 2, 2021.