Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. I: Private Law)

Michał Gałędek Ph.D. (2010), University of Gdańsk, is Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In his research he focuses on the Polish administration, judiciary, constitutionalism, and political thought at the beginning of the 19th century and in the interwar period. Anna Klimaszewska Ph.D. (2011), University of Gdańsk, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In her research she focuses on the influence exerted by the French law on the shape of the Polish legal system, commercial law, civil procedure and national legal identity in the 19th century.

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1 Introduction: Modernisation, National Identity, and Legal Instrumentalism

 Michał Gałędek



2 Prenuptial Agreements of the Hungarian Aristocracy in the Early Modern Era

 Zsuzsanna Peres



3 Revolution and the Instrumentality of Law: Theories of Property in the American and French Revolutions

 Bart Wauters



4 English Commercial Law in the Longue Durée: Chasing Continental Shadows

 Sean Thomas



5 The Italian Destiny of the French Code de commerce (19th Century)

 Annamaria Monti



6 The Reception of the French Commercial Code in Nineteenth-Century Polish Territories: A Hollow Legal Shell

 Anna Klimaszewska



7 Development of the medical malpractice law and legal instrumentalism in the Antebellum America

 Marcin Michalak



8 The Contractual Third-Party Notion: Beyond the Principle of the Relativity of Contracts: The Comparative Legal History as Methodological Approach

 Sara Pilloni



9 Civilian Arguments in the House of Lords’ Judgments: Regarding Delictual (Tortious) Liability in 20th and 21st Century

 Łukasz Jan Korporowicz



10 Usucapio in Era of Real Estate Title Registration Systems

 Beata J. Kowalczyk



11 In the Name of the Republic: Family Reform in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century France and China

 Mingzhe Zhu



12 The Private Law Codification as an Instrument for the Consolidation of a Nation from Inside: Estonia and Latvia between two World Wars

 Marju Luts-Sootak, Hesi Siimets-Gross, Katrin Kiirend-Pruuli



13 Reluctant Legal Transplant: United States Moral Rights as Late 20th Century Honor Law

 Steven Wilf

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