Bulgarian Private Law at Crossroads (Intersentia 2022), by Radosveta Vassileva [Blog post]

Literature on East European legal systems, and especially on Bulgarian law, in the English language is incredibly scarce. Bulgarian Private Law at Crossroads, which marks the beginning of Intersentia’s new ‘Private Law around the World’ series and which is forthcoming in August 2022, responds to this gap in knowledge by surveying the development of the Bulgarian law of obligations and property law from the end of the 19th century to the present day and by explaining the idiosyncrasies of the complex legal patchwork that emerges today in a comparative light. Just like Bulgaria itself, Bulgarian private law has always been at crossroads: it has diverse influences from both East European and West European jurisdictions, and it has seen many turning points because of the country’s tumultuous political past, including a communist regime