INTRODUCTION?1. Borders of ius commune: ius commune at the Borders?Dolores Freda, Mario Piccinini, Heikki Pihlajam?ki, and Chiara Maria Valsecchi? ?PART I: IUS COMMUNE AND VENICE? ?2. Lawyers in Venice: A Curious Business?Silvia Gasparini? ?3. Negari tamen non potest Venetos ius civile romanorum colere et venerari: Venetian Law and ius commune between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries?Claudia Passarella? ?4. Students, Graduates, or Tourists: Scholars from across the Borders in Padua in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries?Donato Gallo? ?5. Venetian Law and ius commune: The Origins of a Controversy?Alfredo Viggiano? ?PART II: IUS COMMUNE AND ENGLAND? ?6. The Invisible Border between ius commune and Common Law: Traditional Interpretations and New Prospects?Dolores Freda? ?7. Legal Pluralism in the Law Courts of EarlyModern England?John Baker? ?8. Roman Law in Sixteenth-Century England: Professor Thomas Smith?David Ibbetson? ?9. Common Lawyers and Civilian Lawyers in England: Barriers and Connections?R. H. Helmholz? ?10. Gerard Malynes and the Ancient Law-Merchant: A View on the ius commune from the Borders?Stefania Gialdroni? ?PART III: IUS COMMUNE AND SCANDINAVIA? ?11.?Ius commune at the Merchant Courts of the Hanse Kontor in Bergen??S?ren Koch? ?12. The Emergence of the Profession of Procurators in Early Modern Denmark?Per Andersen? ?13. Adjusting the ius commune: The Swedish Legal Procedure in the Early Modern Period?Heikki Pihlaló&