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OUP announced the forthcoming publication of the Oxford Handbook of European Legal History, edited by Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki, Prof. Markus D. Dubber & Prof. Mark Godfrey.
Book abstract:
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions.
The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and systemically. Unlike traditional European legal histories, which tend to concentrate on "heartlands" of Europe (notably Italy and Germany), the Europe of the Handbook is more versatile and nuanced, taking into consideration the legal developments in Europe's geographical "fringes" such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook covers all major time periods, from the ancient Greek law to the twenty-first century. Contributors include acknowledged leaders in the field as well as rising talents, representing a wide range of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise and research agendas.
Table of contents:
On the editors:
I. Approaches to European Legal History: Historiography and Methods
1: The World Historical Significance of European Legal History: An Interim Report, James Q. Whitman
2: The Invention of National Legal History, Joachim Rückert
3: The Birth of European Legal History, Randall Lesaffer
4: Abandoning the Nationalist Framework: Comparative Legal History, Kjell Å Modéer
5: Global Legal History: Setting Europe in Perspective, Thomas Duve
II. The Ancient Law and the Early Middle Age
6: Ancient Greek Law, Michael Gagarin
7: Early Roman Law And The West: A Reversal Of Grounds, Pier Giuseppe Monateri
8: Classical and Post-Classical Roman Law: The Legal Actors and The Sources, Paul du Plessis
9: Institutions of Ancient Roman Law, Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi
10: Byzantine Law: The Law of the New Rome, Bernard Stolte
11: Germanic Law, Karl Shoemaker
III. The Law in the High and the Late Middle Ages: The Learned Ius commune and the Vernacular Laws
12: Western Canon Law in the Central and Later Middle Ages, Peter Clarke
13: Structure of Medieval Roman Law: Institutions, Sources, and Methods, Jan Hallebeek
14: Substance of Medieval Roman Law: The Development of Private Law, Thomas Rüfner
15: Southern Europe (Italy, Iberian Peninsula, France), Antonio Manuel Hespanha
16: Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Mathias Schmoeckel
17: High- and Late-Medieval Scandinavia: Codified Vernacular Law and Learned Legal Influences, Mia Korpiola
18: Customary Law and the Influence of the Ius commune in High- and Late-Medieval East Central Europe, Mia Korpiola
19: The Beginnings of the English Common Law (to 1350), Paul Brand
20: The Scottish Common Law: Origins and Development, ca.1124-ca.1500, Andrew R C Simpson
21: Urban Law: The Law of Saxony and Magdeburg, Heiner Lück
22: Extra-legal and Legal Conflict Management among Long-distance Traders (1250-1650), Albrecht Cordes & Philipp Höhn
23: Feudal law, Dirk Heirbaut
IV. European Law in the Early Modern Period: The Fields of Law and the Changing Scholarship
24: Legal Scholarship: The Theory of Sources and Methods of Law, Jan Schröder
25: Natural Law in Early Modern Legal Thought, David Ibbetson
26: Law and the Protestant Reformation, John Witte, Jr
27: Law of Property and Obligations: Neoscholastic Thinking and Beyond, Wim Decock
28: Criminal Law: Before a State Monopoly, Massimo Meccarelli
29: Civil Procedural Law, the Judiciary, and Legal Professionals, Alain Wijffels
30: Jurisdiction, Political Authority, and Territory, Ulrike Müßig
31: Public Law Before 'Public Law', Bernardo Sordi
V. European Law in the Early Modern Period: The Age of Expansion
32: The Law of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Peter Oestmann
33: French Law and its Expansion in the Early Modern Period, Serge Dauchy34: Spanish Law and its Expansion, Matthew C. Mirow
35: Scandinavian Law in the Early Modern Period, Heikki Pihlajamäki
36: English Law and its Expansion, Ken MacMillan
37: Russian Law in the Early Modern Period, Marianna Muravyena
38: Colonial and Indigenous 'Laws' - The Case of Britain's Empires, Circa 1750-1850, Mark Hickford
VI. The Nineteenth Century and Beyond: The Emergence of Modern Law
39: The Age of Codification and Legal Modernisation in Private Law, Jean-Louis Halpérin
40: Legal Formalism and its Critics, Hans-Peter Haferkamp
41: The Constitutional State, Dieter Gosewinkel
42: A More Elevated Patriotism: The Emergence of International and Comparative Law (Nineteenth Century), Martti Koskenniemi & Ville Kari
43: The Law of the Welfare State, Bruno Aguilera-Barchet
44: The Law of Obligations: The Anglo-American Perspective, Michael Lobban
45: Colonial Criminal Law and Other Modernities: European Criminal Law in the Nineteenth And Twentieth Century, Markus D. Dubber
46: European Twentieth Century Dictatorship and the Law, Michael Stolleis
47: Communism and the Law, Yoram Gorlizki
48: The Law of the European Union in Historical Perspective, Peter Lindseth
Edited by Heikki Pihlajamäki, Professor of Comparative Legal History, University of Helsinki, Markus D. Dubber, Professor of Law, University of Toronto, and Mark Godfrey, Professor of Legal History,University of Glasgow
Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki.
Markus D. Dubber is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto.
Mark Godfrey is Professor of Legal History at the University of Glasgow.
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