JOURNAL: Comparative Legal History VIII (2020), no. 1

(Source: ESCLH)

Editorial

Heikki Pihlajamäki & Matthew Dyson, p. 1

Articles

Insuring vs. investing in litigation: a comparative legal history of litigation insurance and claim investment

Willem H. Van Boom, pp. 2-26

From Fukoku Kyohei to Fu-Guo-Qiang-Bing: a comparative analysis of Imperial China and Japan

David K.C. Huang & Nigel N.T. Li, pp. 27-51

Book Reviews

Ancient legal thought: equity, justice, and humaneness from Hammurabi and the Pharaohs to Justinian and the Talmud

by Larry May, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 750 pp., £110 (hbk), ISBN 978-1108484107

Anthony Smart, pp. 52-55

Reason and fairness. Constituting justice in Europe, from medieval canon law to ECHR

by Ulrike Müßig, Leiden and New York, Brill, 2019, 660 pp., 176€ (hbk), ISBN 978-9-004-39372-1

Annamaria Monti, pp. 55-57

Marktaustausch: Grundlegung einer juristisch-ökonomischen Theorie des Austauschverkehrs

by Johannes W. Flume, Tübingen, Mohr Siebeck, 2019, xxi + 304 pp., €84 (hbk), ISBN 978-3161568985

Janwillem Oosterhuis, pp. 57-63

War, law and humanity: the campaign to control warfare, 1853–1914

by James Crossland, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 256 pp., £31.30 (pbk), ISBN 978-1-350-04121-9

Thomas Kleinlein, pp. 63-66

Littératures populaires du droit. Le droit à la portée de tous

edited by Laetitia Guerlain and Nader Hakim, Issy-les-Moulineaux, LGDJ, 2019, 208 pp., 42 € (pbk), ISBN 978-2275057724

Filippo Rossi, pp. 66-70

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