The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland (Early Modern Period-Nineteenth Century)

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-39319-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 228 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Reihe: Legal History Library

The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland provides a broad perspective on recent research into the history of North European commercial law in a comparative and international framework. The book brings together themes that have previously been considered largely from a national perspective.

Despite Sweden's and Finland's peripheral locations in Europe, global legal phenomena took place there as well. These countries were at the crossroads of cultures and commercial interests, allowing us to re-examine them as lively laboratories for commercial laws and practices rather than dismissing them as a negligible periphery. The importance of trade and international transactions cannot be disclaimed, but the book also emphasizes the resilient nature of commercial law.

Contributors are: Dave De ruysscher, Stefania Gialdroni, Ulla Ijäs, Marko Lamberg, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Jussi Sallila, and Katja Tikka.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tikka, Katja

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Nordeuropa (Skandinavien)
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: A Swedish-Finnish Viewpoint

Katja Tikka and Jussi Sallila

2 “Unlawful Contracts and Foreign Subtlety’’ – (In)Tolerance towards External Legal Customs and Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Stockholm, c. 1475–1635

Marko Lamberg

3 Chartered Companies in Sweden, the Dutch Republic and England (c.1600–c.1630): Experiments in Corporate Governance

Dave De ruysscher

4 The Swedish Tar Company – Balancing Between Privileges, Commerce and Foreign Politics

Katja Tikka

5 Invisibility and Information: Commercial Legal Practices at the Grass-Roots Level in a Nineteenth-Century Finnish Timber Trading Company

Ulla Ijäs

6 Commercial Law on the Periphery: University Teaching of Commercial Law in Finland, ca. 1780–1846

Jussi Sallila

7 The Making of Modern Scholarship of Commercial Law in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Finland: Models and Adaptations

Heikki Pihlajamäki

8 Sweden and Finland: A Lively Laboratory for Commercial Laws and Practices

Stefania Gialdroni

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Katja Tikka, Ph.D. (2020), has worked as research assistant and Ph.D. student at the University of Helsinki in the project “The Making of Commercial Law”, which produced this book. Her research focuses on the early modern trading companies.