Beiträge zur Geschichte des Wirtschaftsrechts

This volume contains scholarly papers which deal mainly with the origins or the reorganization of business law institutions primarily in the 19th century which are still in existence today. It creates a vivid picture of the historical environment and the demands made by the dawning industrial age on legal institutions of liability law, the legal provisions for bonds, commercial and corporate law as well as antitrust law and also describes the creative challenges facing the law in view of the forces of the emerging markets.