Wie wird Raum durch historische und religiöse Ansprüche auf Grundbesitz konzipiert und konstituiert? Wie wird Enteignung in sich verändernden Eigentumsordnungen umgesetzt und theoretisiert? Die Beiträge dieses Bandes befassen sich mit postkolonialen Kritiken des Grundbesitzes und bieten eine...

Das Kündigungsschutzrecht ist sowohl für die Durchführung des Arbeitsvertrags und den Schutz der Interessen von abhängig Beschäftigten als auch für die Regulierung von Arbeitsmärkten von großer Wichtigkeit. Seine Praxisrelevanz ist enorm: Viele Arbeitsrechtsstreitigkeiten drehen sich um...

The emergence of the concept from the physiocrats to the Weimar Republic -- The (neo)Libéral recapture of the concept -- The microeconomic Constitution of the European Union fundamental economic freedoms and competition law -- The macroeconomic Constitution of the European Union. The advent of...

Der Fokus dieses Buchs liegt auf Entstehung und Entwicklung des öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts in der Schweiz von der Währungsordnung bis zu den Finanzdienstleistungen, von der Geld-, Kredit- und Währungspolitik bis zur Konjunkturbeobachtung und -statistik, von der Landwirtschaftspolitik bis...

This paper draws a distinction between ‘communitarian' and ‘rationalist' legal orders on the basis of the implied political strategy. We argue that the West's solution to the paradox of governance – that a government strong enough to protect rights cannot itself be restrained from...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the partnership's flexibility combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Earlier enterprise forms...

Der Alltag in einer spätmittelalterlichen Stadt wie Basel war von Schulden geprägt: Kleinkredite und Borgkäufe hielten die Wirtschaft in Schwung, Rentenkäufe ermöglichten langfristige Geldanlagen. Schuldverhältnisse verbanden Menschen aus der Stadt, aus dem Umland und auch aus größerer...

The emergence of the concept from the physiocrats to the Weimar Republic -- The (neo)Libéral recapture of the concept -- The microeconomic Constitution of the European Union fundamental economic freedoms and competition law -- The macroeconomic Constitution of the European Union. The advent of...

Before 1804, France was strictly divided in terms of legal regimes: a part was under Roman civil law while the majority of the territory was under customary laws which, as with common law, gave more flexibility to judges and fewer rights to the state. This dichotomy offers the unique opportunity...

The most common business enterprise form in Germany today is the Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (GmbH). The GmbH offers entrepreneurs the flexibility of a partnership combined with limited liability, capital lock-in, and other traits associated with corporations. Authorized in 1892, the...

From the legal point of view, "person" is not co-extensive with "human being." Nor is it synonymous with "rational being" or "responsible subject." Much of the confusion surrounding the issue of the firm’s legal personality is due to the tendency to address the matter with only these, all too...

Legal historians seldom use statistics, but this is a missed opportunity. Quantitative methods are particularly helpful in understand core legal history issues, including the effect of legal change and the influence of multiple factors on legislation, judicial decisionmaking, and citizen...

“Marxism,” wrote the American legal historian William E. Nelson in 1985, “is not about to disappear as an attractive ideology or as a powerful political force in the world.” The prediction was not well timed. The Marxism of the socialist bloc was anything but an attractive ideology or a...

"Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada’s premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal...

"This is a book for people who practice antitrust law and for people who want to learn antitrust. For practitioners, the book supplements a treatise. For students, the book complements a casebook. It goes beyond what courts have said and done to probe the ethos, logos, and pathos of antitrust;...

This modest manifesto — or minifesto — portrays legal history as a mode of critical analysis of law, using the historical analysis of American penality as an illustration and the full-fledged manifestos by Piketty and Guldi & Armitage as points of reference. Historical analysis of law, in...

The Cluj School of Law was formed and developed under the aegis of both the Faculty of Law at “Babeº-Bolyai” University and the Cluj-Napoca branch of the Romanian Academy, which encouraged and coordinated the local scientific research in the field of law. Regarding the Cluj-Napoca juridical...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the mechanism of the vendor’s warranty against eviction by reference to known sources of Roman Law, and to search for its nature, either legal or conventional. The first two parts of the paper will be mostly dedicated to establishing terminology and...

Economists have documented pervasive correlations between legal origins, modern regulation, and economic outcomes around the world. Where legal origin is exogenous, however, it is almost perfectly correlated with another set of potentially relevant background variables: the colonial policies of...

This essay surveys economic analyses of legal history. In order to make sense of the field and to provide examples that might guide and inspire future research, it identifies and discusses five genres of scholarship. 1) Law as the dependent variable. This genre tries to explain why societies...

Australasia has a rich and complex legal history since the first European settlement, and our knowledge of legal practice and precedent in the colonies of Australasia is still developing. The Australasian Colonial Legal History Library project is an ARC-funded project being carried out by the...

This essay surveys economic analyses of legal history. In order to make sense of the field and to provide examples that might guide and inspire future research, it identifies and discusses five genres of scholarship. Law as the dependent variable. This genre tries to explain why societies have...

The main purpose of this paper is to point out the legal nature, purpose and effects of the engagement prior to marriage in nowadays Romania, and also in old Romanian regulations, dating from the beginning of the XIX-th century. Equally, for a complementary perspective, the engagement prior to...

The legitimacy of slavery, deeply rooted in classical and Christian culture, was called into question starting from the 18th century. It was a slow process, that had to relate to the peculiar forms the slavery institution got with the European colonisation of America in the Modern Age, that is...

The use of inheritance contracts is one of the most controversial issues about the Roman Law. It is not unanimous to whether the Romans knew them, and if so, whether they have practised disposing of one’s assets in the event of death by means of an agreement. It appears that the question...