BOOK: Marju LUTS-SOOTAK and Frank L. SCHÄFER, eds., Recht und Wirtschaft in Stadt und Land (Bern: Peter Lang, 2020). ISBN 978-3-631-81058-3, EUR 84.10

 

(Source: Peter Lang)

Peter Lang is publishing an edited collection on the legal history of the Nordic Sea region.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Der Sammelband dokumentiert ausgewählte Vorträge des Neunten Rechtshistorikertages im Ostseeraum vom Mai 2018 in Estland. Die Beiträge decken unter dem Generalthema «Recht und Wirtschaft in Stadt und Land» die gesamte Spannbreite der Rechtsgeschichte des Ostseeraumes sowie der Forschungsinteressen der Rechtshistorikerinnen und Rechtshistoriker der Anrainerstaaten ab.

ABOUT THE EDITORS

Marju Luts-Sootak ist Professorin für Rechtsgeschichte an der Rechtsfakultät der Universität Tartu, Estland.

Frank L. Schäfer ist Direktor der Germanistischen Abteilung des Instituts für Rechtsgeschichte und geschichtliche Rechtsvergleichung an der Universität Freiburg, Deutschland.

Marju Luts-Sootak is Professor of Legal History at the School of Law, University of Tartu in Estonia.

Frank L. Schäfer is Director of the Section for German Legal History at the Institute for Legal History and Comparative Legal History at Freiburg University in Germany.

 

The table of contents can be found here

BOOK: Katja TIKKA, The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland (Early Modern Period - Nineteenth Century) (Leiden: Brill, 2020). ISBN: 9789004393196, € 131.00

(Source: Brill)

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland provides a broad perspective on recent research into the history of North European commercial law in a comparative and international framework. The book brings together themes that have previously been considered largely from a national perspective. Despite Sweden's and Finland's peripheral locations in Europe, global legal phenomena took place there as well. These countries were at the crossroads of cultures and commercial interests, allowing us to re-examine them as lively laboratories for commercial laws and practices rather than dismissing them as a negligible periphery. The importance of trade and international transactions cannot be disclaimed, but the book also emphasizes the resilient nature of commercial law. 

Contributors are: Dave De Ruysscher, Stefania Gialdroni, Ulla Ijäs, Marko Lamberg, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Jussi Sallila, and Katja Tikka.
Series: Legal History Library, Volume: 40

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Katja Tikka, Ph.D. (2020), has worked as research assistant and Ph.D. student at the University of Helsinki in the project “The Making of Commercial Law”, which produced this book. Her research focuses on the early modern trading companies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: A Swedish-Finnish Viewpoint

By: Katja Tikka and Jussi Sallila, pp. 1–16

“Unlawful Contracts and Foreign Subtlety” (In)Tolerance towards External Legal Customs and Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Stockholm, c. 1475–1635

By: Marko Lamberg, pp. 17–58

Chartered Companies in Sweden, the Dutch Republic and England (c.1600–c.1630): Experiments in Corporate Governance

By: Dave De Ruysscher, pp. 59–91

The Swedish Tar Company – Balancing between Privileges, Commerce and Foreign Politics

By: Katja Tikka, pp. 92–125

Invisibility and Information: Commercial Legal Practices at the Grass-Roots Level in a Nineteenth-Century Finnish Timber Trading Company

By: Ulla Ijäs, pp. 126–157

Commercial Law on the Periphery: University Teaching of Commercial Law in Finland, ca. 1780–1846

By: Jussi Sallila, pp. 158–189

The Making of Modern Scholarship of Commercial Law in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Finland: Models and Adaptations

By: Heikki Pihlajamäki, pp. 190–210

Sweden and Finland: A Lively Laboratory for Commercial Laws and Practices

By: Stefania Gialdroni, pp. 211–219

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