Law

The success of European integration depends on an application and development of law which is guided by specific underlying assumptions. In this book, the author examines those assumptions, how they are translated into legal method and doctrinal constructs, and how they unfold, evolve, and pose challenges for the interconnected democratic orders.

Anne Hermle traces the development of Spanish bankruptcy law from Castilian law of the thirteenth century to the Ley Concursal of 2003. She examines key legal sources, the further development of the law through scholarship and case law, and highlights whether, and to what extent other European legal systems influenced Spanish law.

In contrast to other areas of conflict of laws, international property law in the European Union has not yet been harmonized. Based on a comparative analysis of the Member States' codifications and other selected legal texts, Nina Fischer develops a proposal for a European framework of international property law.

After the epochal change of 1918/1919, a wave of codification began in the new states of Central Eastern Europe. However, the penal codes drafted during this period fell into oblivion after 1945. The contributions gathered in this volume analyse these interwar codes and reveal surprising perspectives on transnational networks of experts.