Commercial Law in Southeastern Europe

Legislation and Jurisdiction from Tanzimat Times until the Eve of the Great War

Contributions by Mehmed Becic Contributions by Zoran Mirkovic Edited by Martin Löhnig Edited by Ivelina Masheva

Book cover: Commercial Law in Southeastern Europe

Extent: 134 pages

Publisher: Böhlau Verlag Wien

Subjects: Law, Nineteenth-Century Studies, Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Series: Legal Area Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(April 2022)

ISBN: 9783205212911

6.34 x 9.25 inches

Price: $62.00

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Southeast Europe lies on the “tectonic boundary” of several juridical continental shelve


In late Ottoman South-Eastern Europe, traditional Ottoman law, court systems and court personnel on the one hand, and ultra-modern French and German/Austrian law on the other, clashed. Thus, more than ever before, this region lay on the “tectonic boundary” of several legal continental shelves. This location makes South Eastern Europe a laboratory in which elements from different legal cultures coexist, mutually influence each other and merge with each other: A legal space characterised by plurality and hybridity, which due to these characteristics ultimately appears more modern than the – at least supposedly – homogeneous legal areas on the individual legal continental shelves.

Prof. Dr. Martin Lohnig is Full Professor for Civil Law, European Legal History and Canon Law at the University of Regensburg. Dr. Ivelina Masheva is a researcher in the Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and currently (2020-2023) a post-doc researcher in the Central European University in Vienna. She obtained her doctoral degree at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (2015) with a dissertation on Tanzimat commercial law reforms in Ottoman Bulgaria.

  • Contributions by Mehmed Becic
  • Contributions by Zoran Mirkovic
  • Edited by Martin Löhnig
  • Edited by Ivelina Masheva