Historisch-kritischer Kommentar zum BGB
"The German editors and the authors are to be congratulated on their achievement and we can only wish them well as they face the daunting task that still lies ahead. It is, unfortunately, hard to imagine any other country where such a massive project of this particular kind could even be contemplated, far less brought to fruition. By British standards, the work is very reasonably priced. It will be an indispensable tool for future comparative work in the field of German private law."
Lord Rodger of Earlsferry Edinburgh Law Revue 2005, 176-177
Edited by Mathias Schmoeckel, Joachim Rückert and Reinhard Zimmermann
Editorial office: Mathias Schmoeckel (Band I and IV), Reinhard Zimmermann (Band II), Joachim Rückert and Frank L. Schäfer (Band III)
Revisors: Fred Bär, Franz Dorn, Thomas Duve, Thomas Finkenauer, Peter Gröschler, Hans-Peter Haferkamp, Jan Dirk Harke, Christian Hattenhauer, Phillip Hellwege, Hans-Georg Hermann, Sibylle Hofer, Nils Jansen, Jens Kleinschmidt, Sebastian Lohsse, Sonja Meier, Rudolf Meyer-Pritzl, Ralf Michaels, Peter Oestmann, Martin Pennitz, Tilman Repgen, Joachim Rückert, Thomas Rüfner, Martin Schermaier, Mathias Schmoeckel, Andreas Thier, Stefan Vogenauer, Reinhard Zimmermann
[Published in German]
Civil law as it is practiced today has occasionally deviated considerably from the text of the German Civil Code. However its connection with the law of 1869 is steeped in tradition. The Historisch-kritischer Kommentar zum BGB provides evidence of this connection, and in doing so it performs an important function at a time in which the old ideal of national codification has paled beside the plans for a European system of private law.