"This collection of essays explores the role intellectual property played in the interwar period and the expansion and protection of intellectual property rights. The geographical scope of the book is global so as to give perspectives from different regions on how intellectual property law...

Introduction : framing the law of nations in intellectual property in the nineteenth century / P. Sean Morris -- The key historical influences leading to the Paris convention for the protection of industrial property of 1883 / Louise J. Duncan -- Challenging the normative impact of technological...

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...

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making' addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime...

"Based on consilia and decisiones, Wouter Druwé studies the multinormative framework on loans and credit in the Golden Ages of Antwerp and Amsterdam (c. 1500-1680). He analyzes the use of a wide variety of legal financial techniques in the Low Countries, such as money lending and the taking of...