Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making

Serge Dauchy is Research Director at the CNRS (Lille) 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 legal history of Québec and Louisiana. 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). Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal History and Civil Law at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history and the history of conflict resolution. Dave De ruysscher is Associate Professor at Tilburg University and Vrije Universiteit Brussels. As a legal historian and lawyer, he specializes in the history of commercial and private law of the Early Modern period and the nineteenth century.

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 Contributors



Introduction: colonial Adventures: commercial Law and Practice in the Making

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



The Rhetoric of Commercial Law in 4th-Century BC Athens

 David Mirhady



Trading along Hadrian’s Wall

 Paul du Plessis



Trade and Law in New Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

 Oscar Cruz Barney



Scots Traders and Spanish Law in East Florida

 M.C. Mirow



How to ‘Mash up’ Lex Mercatoria from Civil Law fo Common Law: the Genesis of Lex Mercatoria in Lower-Canada History 1760–1866

 David Gilles



English Mercantilist Thought and the Matter of Colonies from the 17th to the First Half of the 18th Century

 Alain Clément



The Transplant and Adaption of Company Law in Colonial Victoria 1850–1900

 Phillip Lipton



Company Law transplants and Change in Colonial Southeast Asia

 Petra Mahy



From Denial to Opportunity: Chinese Access to Colonial Law in the Netherlands Indies (1800–1942)

 Alexander Claver



Corporate Law in Colonial India: rise and Demise of the Managing Agency System

 Umakanth Varottil



‘Neither the State nor the Individual Goes to the Colony in Order to Make a Bad Business’: state and Private Enterprise in the Making of Commercial Law in the German Colonies, ca. 1884 to 1914

 Jakob Zollmann



Customs Law in the Congo: on the Fiscal Bargaining Process between the Colonial State and Private Enterprise in Africa (1886–1914)

 Bas De Roo



The Birth of a Colonial City: Tianjin 1860–1895

 Luigi Nuzzo



Experiences and Experimentations: two Words between Two Worlds

 Bernard Durand



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