Abstract
Judicial authority is both influenced and shaped by its institutional and normative environment. This interaction is a fundamental aspect of a legal culture. Based on the circumstances specific to the legal tradition of the Holy Roman Empire, what elements make it possible to verify, and if necessary to what extent, the presupposition of a European legal culture? This examination shows that the characteristic parameters of such a culture do not respond to constant references, but have been influenced by legislative, political and economic forces, as well as by discourse in the field of legal theory. On the one hand, these factors have had a centrifugal effect, but on the other they have created new common orientations which, from their distinct dynamics, have constituted a European legal culture of a different order.
