Acta Universitatis Danubius. Juridica, Vol 5, No 1 (2009)

Abstract

Edward Lambert belongs to the latest generation of general law professors. In 1893, he sustained before the Law Faculty of Paris a thesis on the stipulation for others and in 1896 he was received major assistance from aggregation of Law Faculties. This is the last great contest that is the last unique competition designed to ensure equally to recruitment of all law professors and Lambert has chosen the history of law as a "special topic". As professor at the Faculty of Law at Lyon, he is responsible for "complementary course of history of French law" and he teaches the disciplines of history for many years. Only in 1921 it will open in the same faculty of Lyon Chair of Comparative Law. First legal historian and therefore eminent comparative course is also a deemed civilest, a commercial talent and labor precursor.