Research On The Medieval Hanseatic League Law

As the greatest business organisation in the medieval Europe, Hanseatic leaguehas a stronger influence on medieval economy. This is already confirmed byeconomic scholars. However, the study on the legal system in the Hanseatic league isless likely to see in China. In fact, as the city legal system of European city has aimportant role in promoting the city revolution, the study on legal system of Hanseaticleague can not be ingnored.Surrounded by the city、church and other political and economic groups, and thelossely organized all make the law of Hanseatic league diversity. In the beginning,the Hanseatic league law mainly influenced by the city charter and commercialprivileges and city alliance agreement, and most of them, like the jurisdiction、commerical privileges rules directly reserved as the mainly source of law, whether theorganization formation or the maritime law are based on these statutes. The statutes ofHanseatic league also promote the construction of the legal system of the Nordiccountries, especially the contribution to maritime law development, there is nothingcomparable to this.Except the study on the basic content of Hanseatic law, this paper also putforward the point of the hot spots of research of Hanseatic law system. Like therelationship between Lubeck law and Hanseatic law and the existence of the uniformof the Hanseatic commercial issues.