Présentation de l'éditeur
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 Michał Gałędek, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli, Anna Klimaszewska, Łukasz 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.
Sommaire
Introduction: Modernisation, National Identity, and Legal Instrumentalism
By: Michał Gałędek
Prenuptial Agreements of the Hungarian Aristocracy in the Early Modern Era
By: Zsuzsanna Peres
Revolution and the Instrumentality of Law: Theories of Property in the American and French Revolutions
By: Bart Wauters
English Commercial Law in the Longue Durée: Chasing Continental Shadows
By: Sean Thomas
The Italian Destiny of the French Code de commerce
By: Annamaria Monti
The Reception of the French Commercial Code in Nineteenth-Century Polish Territories: A Hollow Legal Shell
By: Anna Klimaszewska
Development of the Medical Malpractice Law and Legal Instrumentalism in the Antebellum America
By: Marcin Michalak
The Contractual Third-Party Notion Beyond the Principle of the Relativity of Contracts: The Comparative Legal History as Methodological Approach
By: Sara Pilloni
Civilian Arguments in the House of Lords’ Judgments: Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability in 20th and 21st Century
By: Łukasz Jan Korporowicz
Usucapio in Era of Real Estate Title Registration Systems
By: Beata J. Kowalczyk
In the Name of the Republic: Family Reform in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century France and China
By: Mingzhe Zhu
The Private Law Codification as an Instrument for the Consolidation of a Nation from Inside: Estonia and Latvia between Two World Wars
By: Marju Luts-Sootak , Hesi Siimets-Gross and Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli
Reluctant Legal Transplant: United States Moral Rights as Late 20th Century Honor Law
By: Steven Wilf
