Modernisation, national identity and legal instrumentalism : studies in comparative legal history
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Modernisation, national identity and legal instrumentalism : studies in comparative legal history
（Legal history library, v. 35）
Brill Nijhoff, c2020
- v. 1 : hardback
Available at 1 libraries
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Vol. 1. Privat law
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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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.
Table of Contents
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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 Duree: 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
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