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To better appreciate present-day private international law and its future prospects and challenges, we should consider the history and historiography of the field. This book offers an original approach to the study of conflict of laws and legal history that exposes doctrinal lawyers to historical context, and legal historians to the intricacies of legal doctrine. The analysis is based on an in-depth examination of Medieval and Early Modern conflict of laws, focusing on the classic texts of Bartolus and Huber. Combining theoretical insights, textual analysis and historical perspectives, the author presents the preclassical conflict of laws as a rich world of doctrines and policies, theory and practice, context and continuity. This book challenges preconceptions and serves as an advanced introduction which illustrates the relevance of history in commanding private international law, while aspiring to make private international law relevant for history.
List of contents
1. Introduction; Part I. History and Historiography in the Conflict of Laws: 2. Uses of History in Private International Law; 3. Preclassical Conflict of Laws in the Historical Consciousness; Part II. Current Concerns: 4. Conflict of Laws as a Conceptual Battlefield; 5. Conflict of Laws as a Doctrinal Exercise; 6. Conflict of Laws in a World System; Part III. Bartolus da Sassoferrato and the Conflict of Laws in the Middle Ages: 7. 'Nunc veniamus ad glossam': Bartolus on the Conflict of Laws; 8. The Political Context of Bartolan Conflict of Laws; 9. Doctrinal Aspects of Bartolan Conflict of Laws; 10. Bartolan Conflict of Laws in the Conceptual Battlefield; Part IV. Ulrik Huber and Conflict of Laws in the Early Modern Period; 11. 'Saepe fit, ut negotia': Huber on the Conflict of Laws; 12. The Political Context of Huber's Conflict of Laws; 13. Doctrinal Aspects of Huber's Conflict of Laws; 14. Huber's Conflict of Laws in the Conceptual Battlefield; Epilogue: 15. Preclassical Conflict of Laws Configured.
About the author
Nikitas E. Hatzimihail is Associate Professor of Private Law, Comparative Law and Legal History at the University of Cyprus. His doctoral dissertation received the Addison-Brown commencement prize at Harvard.
Summary
This book offers an original approach to the study of conflict of laws and legal history that exposes doctrinal lawyers to historical context and legal historians to the intricacies of legal doctrine. It also serves as an advanced introduction to private international law.
