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Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. I: Private Law)
Studies in Comparative Legal History
Series: - Legal History Library, Volume: 35
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 â 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 MichaÅ GaÅÄdek, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli, Anna Klimaszewska, Åukasz 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.
Contributors are MichaÅ GaÅÄdek, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli, Anna Klimaszewska, Åukasz 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.
MichaÅ GaÅÄdek Ph.D. (2010), University of GdaÅsk, 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 GdaÅsk, 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.
Anna Klimaszewska Ph.D. (2011), University of GdaÅsk, 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.
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Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Modernisation, National Identity, and Legal Instrumentalism
âMichaÅ GaÅÄdek
2 Prenuptial Agreements of the Hungarian Aristocracy in the Early Modern Era
âZsuzsanna Peres
3 Revolution and the Instrumentality of Law: Theories of Property in the American and French Revolutions
âBart Wauters
4 English Commercial Law in the Longue Durée: Chasing Continental Shadows
âSean Thomas
5 The Italian Destiny of the French Code de commerce (19th Century)
âAnnamaria Monti
6 The Reception of the French Commercial Code in Nineteenth-Century Polish Territories: A Hollow Legal Shell
âAnna Klimaszewska
7 Development of the medical malpractice law and legal instrumentalism in the Antebellum America
âMarcin Michalak
8 The Contractual Third-Party Notion: Beyond the Principle of the Relativity of Contracts: The Comparative Legal History as Methodological Approach
âSara Pilloni
9 Civilian Arguments in the House of Lordsâ Judgments: Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability in 20th and 21st Century
âÅukasz Jan Korporowicz
10 Usucapio in Era of Real Estate Title Registration Systems
âBeata J. Kowalczyk
11 In the Name of the Republic: Family Reform in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century France and China
âMingzhe Zhu
12 The Private Law Codification as an Instrument for the Consolidation of a Nation from Inside: Estonia and Latvia between two World Wars
âMarju Luts-Sootak, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli
13 Reluctant Legal Transplant: United States Moral Rights as Late 20th Century Honor Law
âSteven Wilf
Index
Notes on Contributors
1 Introduction: Modernisation, National Identity, and Legal Instrumentalism
âMichaÅ GaÅÄdek
2 Prenuptial Agreements of the Hungarian Aristocracy in the Early Modern Era
âZsuzsanna Peres
3 Revolution and the Instrumentality of Law: Theories of Property in the American and French Revolutions
âBart Wauters
4 English Commercial Law in the Longue Durée: Chasing Continental Shadows
âSean Thomas
5 The Italian Destiny of the French Code de commerce (19th Century)
âAnnamaria Monti
6 The Reception of the French Commercial Code in Nineteenth-Century Polish Territories: A Hollow Legal Shell
âAnna Klimaszewska
7 Development of the medical malpractice law and legal instrumentalism in the Antebellum America
âMarcin Michalak
8 The Contractual Third-Party Notion: Beyond the Principle of the Relativity of Contracts: The Comparative Legal History as Methodological Approach
âSara Pilloni
9 Civilian Arguments in the House of Lordsâ Judgments: Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability in 20th and 21st Century
âÅukasz Jan Korporowicz
10 Usucapio in Era of Real Estate Title Registration Systems
âBeata J. Kowalczyk
11 In the Name of the Republic: Family Reform in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century France and China
âMingzhe Zhu
12 The Private Law Codification as an Instrument for the Consolidation of a Nation from Inside: Estonia and Latvia between two World Wars
âMarju Luts-Sootak, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli
13 Reluctant Legal Transplant: United States Moral Rights as Late 20th Century Honor Law
âSteven Wilf
Index
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