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.

Great debates have long shaped company law and continue to do so, yet the subject remains under-explored. This volume maps the key scholarly debates in German and Italian company law, demonstrating that these debates form the core of the field and examining how ideas, concepts and knowledge have developed and continue to evolve.

The relationship between state law and religious law is one of the central points of tension in modern legal systems within religiously pluralistic societies. The author gives a comparative analysis of the treatment of inter-religious marriages in Israel, Lebanon, and Tunisia and investigates the reception of a religion-based ban on marriage by German courts.