La History of law, like all other legal disciplines, has been affected by globalisation. This has been reflected in their registration within the framework of a ‘university Europe’ promoted by the so-called ‘Bologna Process’. It is well known that the law can only be understood from its historical perspective, however, this must now be recalled in particular and it is also necessary to verify that knowledge from its historical European legal context. All of this is conducive to increasingly developing approximation to historical legal discipline through its evident expansionary virtuality by irradiating its formation to all spheres of legal knowledge. In this way, a history of European law is proposed as a complement, now indispensable, to a good knowledge not only of Spain’s historical legal discipline but also of the legal sciences in general.