This book is based on the papers that were presented at the international workshop ‘The Influence of Colonies on Commercial Law and Practice’, which was held in Fiskars, Finland, in 2016. The workshop had been organized within the framework of the project ‘The Making of Commercial Law: Common Practices and National Legal Rules from the Early Modern to the Modern Period’ under the supervision of Heikki Pihlajamäki (University of Helsinki).
This is the fourth and final book of the series including The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? Middle Ages – Nineteenth Century (2017), Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law: Courts, Statutes, Contracts, and Legal Scholarship (2018) and Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law (2019).
The project and the conferences, as well as this book and the previous ones have been funded by the Academy of Finland and the Finnish Cultural Foundation, and they have also benefited from logistical support from the University of Helsinki.
In addition to the contributors of this volume, we would like to thank Katja Tikka and Jussi Sallila for helping to organize the workshop, Sofia Söderholm for the technical editing of the volume and Sara Roberts for the language editing.
Serge Dauchy, Albrecht Cordes, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamäki
Lille, 30 March 2020