Codification of Civil Law: Assessment, Reforms, Options
Synopsis
Ten years have passed since the Hungarian Civil Code entered into force. The Code builds strongly on tradition, but where necessary, the scope for renewal and innovation has been realised. Several events have taken place in Hungary since the establishment of the Civil Code to enable assessing its application.
To commemorate the anniversary of the introduction of the Hungarian Civil Code, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Central European Academy of the University of Miskolc, and the Ferenc Mádl Institute of Comparative Law organised an international conference titled ‘Codification of Civil Law: Assessment, Reforms, Options’ on 18–19 May 2023. The specific theme of the conference was aimed at reviewing the current state of private law codification, reforms of the previous decades, current challenges, and the future changes planned in some European countries.
This volume contains some of the papers presented at the conference, edited into full chapters, providing an in-depth evaluation of the chosen topics. The individual papers offer an insight into the workshops on private law codification, highlighting achievements and dilemmas and successes and failures. Overall, the volume serves as a rich repository of many key issues related to private law codification.
Chapters
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Foreword
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Introduction: General remarks on private law codification in East Central Europe
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Codification of private law. The European perspective
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Current topics and theory of private law codification
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An alternative approach: Private law in the Common Law system
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Codification of civil law in Hungary: The Civil Code as a part of the system of law
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Objectives and crises of codif ication of private law in France
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Reflections on the Preliminary Draft of the Serbian Civil Code from 2019
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The current state of the Slovak private law recodification
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Reform of Private Law in the Czech Republic
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Codification of Civil Law in Croatia: Challenges of multiple crises for the reform of Croatian civil law
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Codification of Civil Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Civil Law Codification in Slovenia
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The French Civil Code after its bicentenary (2004–2023): Catching up with modernity
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On unity in the age of diversity: The monistic approach of Romanian Civil Code
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Codification in the Netherlands. Professor Meijers’ successful cam-paign for a complete revision of the Dutch Civil Code (1838)
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Codification of Civil Law in Austria
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Recent developments in Italian Civil Law on compensation for non-pecuniary damage
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Codification of the Civil Law in Poland
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Customary Law vs. Codified Law in 1930s Hungary: Insights from the Work of Károly Szladits
