Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law

Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law
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Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-03-06
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004363149

The contributions of Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law: Courts, Statutes, Contracts, and Legal Scholarship show the wealth of sources which historians of commercial law use to approach their subject. Depending on the subject, historical research on mercantile law must be ready to open up to different approaches and sources in a truly imaginative and interdisciplinary way. This, more than many other branches of law, has always been largely non-state law. Normative, ‘official’, sources are important in commercial law as well, but other sources are often needed to complement them. The articles of the volume present an excellent assemblage of those sources. Anja Amend-Traut, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher, Olivier Descamps, Ricardo Galliano Court, Eberhard Isenmann, Mia Korpiola, Peter Oestmann, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Edouard Richard, Margrit Schulte Beerbühl, Guido Rossi, Bram Van Hofstraeten, Boudewijn Sirks, Alain Wijffels, and Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz.

General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business

General Average and Risk Management in Medieval and Early Modern Maritime Business
Author: Maria Fusaro
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 510
Release: 2023-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 3031041186

This open access book explores the history of risk management in medieval and early modern European maritime business, focusing particularly on 'General Average' – a mechanism by which extraordinary expenses regarding ship or cargo, incurred during a voyage to save the venture, are shared between all participants to protect equity. This volume traces the history of this risk management tool from its origins in the pre-Roman Mediterranean through to its use in the shipping sector today. Contributions range from the Islamic Mediterranean to the Low Countries, and taken together, provide a wide-ranging analysis of social, cultural, and political aspects of pre-modern maritime commerce in Europe.

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2020-11-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 900444307X

Colonial Adventures:Commercial Law and Practice in the Making proposes a lung run exploration of the influence of colonisation and overseas trade on commercial law and the adaptation of transplanted law to colonial constraints in a comparative perspective.

The Book World of Early Modern Europe

The Book World of Early Modern Europe
Author: Arthur der Weduwen
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2022-09-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 900451810X

This collection of essays, commissioned in honour of Andrew Pettegree, presents original contributions on the Reformation, communication and the book in early modern Europe. Together, the essays reflect on Pettegree’s ground-breaking influence on these fields, and offer a comprehensive survey of the state of current scholarship.

Early Modern Privacy

Early Modern Privacy
Author: Michaël Green
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2021-12-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004153071

An examination of instances, experiences, and spaces of early modern privacy. It opens new avenues to understanding the structures and dynamics that shape early modern societies through examination of a wide array of sources, discourses, practices, and spatial programmes.

A History of Law in Europe

A History of Law in Europe
Author: Antonio Padoa-Schioppa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 823
Release: 2017-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107180694

The first English translation of a comprehensive legal history of Europe from the early middle ages to the twentieth century, encompassing both the common aspects and the original developments of different countries. As well as legal scholars and professionals, it will appeal to those interested in the general history of European civilisation.

Money Law, Capital, and the Changing Identity of the European Union

Money Law, Capital, and the Changing Identity of the European Union
Author: Gabriella Gimigliano
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1509956816

This book addresses 3 questions: is money a way to create a European Union identity? If so, which type of identity is this? And in what ways is the EU identity changing? The book brings together experts from a variety of backgrounds and academic approaches to analyse the law of money and payments on the one side, and the law of capital and investments on the other. The book is divided into 2 parts. Part I covers scriptural, electronic, and digital money. It analyses the European framework for payment services users, explores limits and challenges of the Banking Union, and looks at the project for a digital euro. Part II investigates the policy and regulatory drivers of the EU's changing identity, from the early modern roots of the European law of money and capital to the regulatory strategy set in the Capital Markets Union and the role conferred on venture capital; from the fintech-based developments of payment systems to the newly-established fiscal and monetary policies in the post-COVID phase. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy makers in the fields of law and regulation, as well as political economy and political sciences.