Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. I: Private Law)

Studies in Comparative Legal History
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39528-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Legal History Library

The driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernisation – transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernisation, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With selected examples of different legal institutions, countries and periods, the authors of the essays in the two volumes Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. I:Private Law and Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. II: Public Law seek to explain the nature of this problem.

Contributors are Michal Galedek, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli, Anna Klimaszewska, Lukasz Jan Korporowicz, Beata J. Kowalczyk, Marju Luts-Sootak,
Marcin Michalak, Annamaria Monti, Zsuzsanna Peres, Sara Pilloni, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Sean Thomas, Bart Wauters, Steven Wilf, and Mingzhe Zhu.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Galedek, Michal

Klimaszewska, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Modernisation, National Identity, and Legal Instrumentalism

Michal Galedek

2 Prenuptial Agreements of the Hungarian Aristocracy in the Early Modern Era

Zsuzsanna Peres

3 Revolution and the Instrumentality of Law: Theories of Property in the American and French Revolutions

Bart Wauters

4 English Commercial Law in the Longue Durée: Chasing Continental Shadows

Sean Thomas

5 The Italian Destiny of the French Code de commerce (19th Century)

Annamaria Monti

6 The Reception of the French Commercial Code in Nineteenth-Century Polish Territories: A Hollow Legal Shell

Anna Klimaszewska

7 Development of the medical malpractice law and legal instrumentalism in the Antebellum America

Marcin Michalak

8 The Contractual Third-Party Notion: Beyond the Principle of the Relativity of Contracts: The Comparative Legal History as Methodological Approach

Sara Pilloni

9 Civilian Arguments in the House of Lords’ Judgments: Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability in 20th and 21st Century

Lukasz Jan Korporowicz

10 Usucapio in Era of Real Estate Title Registration Systems

Beata J. Kowalczyk

11 In the Name of the Republic: Family Reform in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century France and China

Mingzhe Zhu

12 The Private Law Codification as an Instrument for the Consolidation of a Nation from Inside: Estonia and Latvia between two World Wars

Marju Luts-Sootak, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli

13 Reluctant Legal Transplant: United States Moral Rights as Late 20th Century Honor Law

Steven Wilf

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michal Galedek Ph.D. (2010), University of Gdansk, is Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In his research he focuses on the Polish administration, judiciary, constitutionalism, and political thought at the beginning of the 19th century and in the interwar period.



Anna Klimaszewska Ph.D. (2011), University of Gdansk, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In her research she focuses on the influence exerted by the French law on the shape of the Polish legal system, commercial law, civil procedure and national legal identity in the 19th century.