Codification of Civil Law: Assessment, Reforms, Options
Synopsis
The book series Legal Heritage seeks to publish significant a nd intriguing results of the research related to the most relevant historical sources of law in Central and Eastern Europe. Each volume of the book series primarily aims to commemorate the anniversary of a relevant moment in the regions’ legal history. It is also an important goal of this series to authentically present and address legal issues which arise related to the Central and Eastern European region, considering the particular legal traditions and culture of the countries therein. The series mostly presents the essays of acclaimed scholars of the given field of law. The book series mainly concerns legal history; however, the papers can involve also constitutional, public, private, or comparative law issues.
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
