Add to ORKGPrivate law codification is not as indispensable to continental legal culture as standard legal histories would have us believe. Law was modernizing roughly at the same time, and in the same way, in Western countries that did not codify private law, including the common law world and Scandinavia. This suggests a connection between the legal history of regions with and without codification; in this exercise in critical legal history, I argue that the engine driving the modernization of Western law has been legal scholarship, not legislators and their codes. Moreover, the idea of a European civil code may struggle today at least partly because the civil code never had the monopoly over European legal development standard legal histories have ...
This article will focus upon the codification movement in Europe as it unfolded in Prussia, Austria ...
The main thrust of this article is to suggest how legal uniformity may result in the European Union ...
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expa...
throughout the world. Legal scholars, however, have focused attention on the history of codification...
International audienceThis book presents an analysis of global legal history in Modern times, questi...
The European codification project has rapidly gathered pace since the turn of the century. This mono...
This article attempts to contribute to the debate of how the legal families are to be reconcilable, ...
This article attempts to contribute to the debate of how the legal families are to be reconcilable, ...
This article attempts to contribute to the debate of how the legal families are to be reconcilable, ...
What are the key conditions and factors that contribute to a successful effort within a political un...
What are the key conditions and factors that contribute to a successful effort within a political un...
This Article argues that legal history and comparative law ought to merge into one discipline. The t...
Is there such a thing as European private law, a set of rules of EU law distinguished by the binary ...
This essay focuses on the process of the codification of civil law in continental Europe at the end ...
Among many of today’s legal historians, there is a relatively new and generally unreflective underst...
This article will focus upon the codification movement in Europe as it unfolded in Prussia, Austria ...
The main thrust of this article is to suggest how legal uniformity may result in the European Union ...
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expa...
throughout the world. Legal scholars, however, have focused attention on the history of codification...
International audienceThis book presents an analysis of global legal history in Modern times, questi...
The European codification project has rapidly gathered pace since the turn of the century. This mono...
This article attempts to contribute to the debate of how the legal families are to be reconcilable, ...
This article attempts to contribute to the debate of how the legal families are to be reconcilable, ...
This article attempts to contribute to the debate of how the legal families are to be reconcilable, ...
What are the key conditions and factors that contribute to a successful effort within a political un...
What are the key conditions and factors that contribute to a successful effort within a political un...
This Article argues that legal history and comparative law ought to merge into one discipline. The t...
Is there such a thing as European private law, a set of rules of EU law distinguished by the binary ...
This essay focuses on the process of the codification of civil law in continental Europe at the end ...
Among many of today’s legal historians, there is a relatively new and generally unreflective underst...
This article will focus upon the codification movement in Europe as it unfolded in Prussia, Austria ...
The main thrust of this article is to suggest how legal uniformity may result in the European Union ...
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expa...