Nationalism and private law in Europe / Guido Comparato.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Comparato, Guido, author.

Series:

Modern studies in European law.

Modern studies in European law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil law--European Union countries--International unification.

Civil law.

Commercial law--European Union countries.

Commercial law.

Contracts--European Union countries.

Contracts.

Nationalism--European Union countries.

Nationalism.

Restitution--European Union countries.

Restitution.

Torts--European Union countries.

Torts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While the internationalisation of society has stimulated the emergence of common legal frameworks to coordinate transnational social relations, private law itself is firmly rooted in national law. European integration processes have altered this state of affairs to a limited degree with a few, albeit groundbreaking, interventions that have tended to engender resistance from various actors within European nation-states. Against that background, this book takes as its point of departure the need to understand the process of legal denationalisation within broader political frameworks. In particular it seeks to make sense of opposition to Europeanisation at this point in the evolution of European law when, despite growing nationalist attitudes, great efforts have been made to produce comprehensive legal instruments to synthesise general contract law - an area that has traditionally been solely within the ambit of nation-states. Combining insights from the disciplines of law, history and political science, the book investigates the conceptual and cultural associations between law and the nation-state, examines the impact of nationalist ideas in modern legal thought and reveals the nationalist underpinnings of some of the arguments employed against and, somewhat paradoxically, even in support of legal Europeanisation. The author's research for this book has been supported by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law

Contents:

1 Nationalism

1.2 Ideas of the Nation-state

1.3 Why a State Should be National

1.4 The Convenience of Nationalism

1.5 Conclusion

2 Nationalisation and Denationalisation

2.1 The Development of National Law

2.2 Private Law as a Nation-building Tool

2.3 The Denationalisation of Private Law

3 Why Private Law Should be National

3.1 The Economic Argument

3.2 The Social Argument

3.3 The Cultural Argument

4 Euronationalism

4.1 The Idea of Europe

4.2 Reasons for Europe-building

4.3 The European Identity

4.4 Law as a Europe-building Tool

4.5 European Culture

4.6 Perspectives of Nation and Europe-building

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages (277)-301) and index.

ISBN:

9781509907410

1509907416

9781474201285

1474201288

9781782253860

1782253866

OCLC:

1154886057