The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? (Middle Ages-Nineteenth Century)

Dave De ruysscher, Ph.D. (2009), is Associate Professor at Tilburg University and at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Being legal historian and lawyer, he specializes in the history of commercial and private law of the early modern period and the nineteenth century. Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal History and Civil Law at the Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history and the history of conflict resolution. Serge Dauchy is Research Director at the CNRS (Lille-France) and Professor of Legal History at the University Saint-Louis of Brussels. His main research topics are the history of civil procedure, comparative history of central courts and the history of Québec. Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on the legal history of Scandinavia, Europe and America, including Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630 – 1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017).

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Introduction
 Dave De ruysscher, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy and Heikki Pihlajamäki

1 What is a Small Firm? Some Indications from the Business Organization of Late Medieval German Merchants
 Ulla Kypta

2 Making Size Matter Less: Italian Firms and Merchant Guilds in Late Medieval Bruges
 Bart Lambert

3 Late Scholasticism and Commercial Partnership: Persons and Capitals in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
 Luisa Brunori

4 Legal Structure of Early Enterprises—from Commenda-like Arrangements to Chartered Joint-Stock Companies (Early Modern Period)
 Anja Amend-Traut

5 Delving for Diversity in Early Modern Company Law: Mining Companies in Seventeenth-Century Liège
 Bram Van Hofstraeten

6 Incorporation and Limited Liability in Seventeenth-Century England: The Case of the East India Company
 Stefania Gialdroni

7 From Commercial Guilds to Commercial Law: Spanish Company Regulations (1737–1848)
 Carlos Petit

8 Partnerships as Flexible and Open-Purpose Entities: Legal and Commercial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp (c. 1830–c. 1850)
 Dave De ruysscher

9 Form, Size, “Governance”: Remarks on Italian Late Nineteenth-Century Companies
 Annamaria Monti

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