Changes in the Sources of Law
In historical development, the antiquity of law was originally given greater value. Legal acts and knowledge of customs were confirmed by "old men", people knowledgeable about the distant past, people respected for their age and perspective. In this legal thinking, customs were very often considered a more important source of law than its competition, especially in the form of statutory law. The modern era, at least since the days of Enlightenment absolutism, has brought a new paradigm in which change and reform were understood as positive and law became a transformative tool. This also had to lead to a reassessment of the relationships between the individual sources of law and the retreat of legal customs as a dominant source.
Guarantors of the section:
prof. JUDr. Matúš Nemec, PhD.
prof. doc. JUDr. Mgr. Vojtech Vladár, PhD.
prof. Mgr. Miroslav Lysý, PhD.