Law and the Formation of Modern Europe: Perspectives from the Historical Sociology of Law - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1107044057 ISBN 13: 9781107044050

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Containing contributions by leading historians, lawyers and sociologists, this book examines the formative processes underlying the legal order of contemporary Europe. It offers sociological explanations of both the national and the supranational factors which have shaped the European legal structure.

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Reseña del editor:

Law and the Formation of Modern Europe explores processes of legal construction in both the national and supranational domains, and it provides an overview of the modern European legal order. In its supranational focus, it examines the sociological pressures which have given rise to European public law, the national origins of key transnational legal institutions and the elite motivations driving the formation of European law. In its national focus, it addresses legal questions and problems which have assumed importance in parallel fashion in different national societies, and which have shaped European law more indirectly. Examples of this are the post-1914 transformation of classical private law, the rise of corporatism, the legal response to the post-1945 legacy of authoritarianism, the emergence of human rights law and the growth of judicial review. This two-level sociological approach to European law results in unique insights into the dynamics of national and supranational legal formation.

Biografía del autor:

Mikael Rask Madsen is Professor of European Law and Integration at the Faculty of Law and Director of iCourts, the Centre of Excellence for International Courts, University of Copenhagen.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1107044057
• ISBN 13: 9781107044050
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 378
• Herausgeber: Madsen Mikael Rask, Thornhill Chris