Private Law in Eastern Europe

Autonomous Developments or Legal Transplants?

edited by Christa Jessel-Holst, Rainer Kulms and Alexander Trunk

Book cover: Private Law in Eastern Europe

Extent: 518 pages

Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

Subjects: Law

Series: Materialien zum ausländischen und internationalen Privatrecht

Series volume number: 50

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2010)

ISBN: 9783161505898

Price: $124.00

In stock

~ENG~This volume studies transformation processes from comparative and long-term perspectives. Practitioners from international cooperation agencies and scholars from Eastern and South-Eastern Europe analyze transformation dynamics, the acquis communautaire and autonomous codification work, focusing on national general private and company laws.


More than 20 years have passed since the downfall of socialist systems. To accelerate transformation processes utmost priority was given to the recognition of property rights, an indispensable requirement for free market economies. Regulators soon came to realize that the success of transformation was conditioned on a more systematic approach towards codified civil law and business law. Numerous comparative law studies on individual Eastern European states have been undertaken, but they fail to portray the dynamic in its full scope. Studies adopting long-term perspectives and offering multi-nation comparisons are particularly rare. In March 2009, a symposium was held at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law to address these shortcomings. In this conference volume Christa Jessel-Holst, Rainer Kulms, and Alexander Trunk assemble the contributions by international policy advisors and scholars from Eastern and South Eastern Europe (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia and Ukraine) assessing codification processes in classic civil law fields and company and capital market laws. In spite of comparable transformation problems, the individual processes are moving forward quite disparately, oscillating between ‘old’ socialist codifications, legislative projects faithful to the acquis communautaire and new codifications with a distinctly autonomous approach. Nonetheless, most transformation states are united in their effort to establish efficient court systems which can handle the acquis without being positivistic.Contributors:Jurgen Basedow, Rainer Kulms, Michel Nussbaumer, Frederique Dahan, Thomas Meyer, Alexander Komarov, Volodymyr Kossak, Jelena Perovia?, Camelia Toader, Verica Trstenjak, Christian Takoff, Tatjana Josipovia?, Meliha Povlakia?, Dusan Nikolia?, Mirko Vasiljevia?, Alexandra Makovskaya, Oleg Zaitsev, Ionu? Radule?u, Tania Bouzeva, Radu Catana?, Andras Kisfaludi, Krzysztof Oplustil, Arkadiusz Radwan

Jurgen Basedow : Welcome AddressA. Perspectives of Civil Law in Eastern Europe - Policy Issues Rainer Kulms : Optimistic Normativism after Two Decades of Legal Transplants and Autonomous Developments - Michel Nussbaumer and Frederique Dahan : Promoting Legal Reform in Eastern Europe: the EBRD Approach - Thomas Meyer : Social Market Economy Values in Legal Reform Projects in South East Europe (SEE)B. Civil Law - General Aspects Alexander Komarov : Development of Private Law on Contracts in the Russian Federation - Volodymyr Kossak : General Principles of Private Law in Ukraine - Jelena Perovia? : Contract Law in Serbia - Camelia Toader : Contract Law in Romania - Verica Trstenjak : Private Law Developments in Slovenia - a European Perspective - Christian Takoff : Private Law in BulgariaC. Property Law Aspects - South-Eastern Europe Tatjana Josipovia? : Property Law Reform in Croatia Between Legal Transplants and Autonomous Development - Meliha Povlakia? : Property Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Dusan Nikolia? : Property Law in Serbia: Both Autonomous Legal Development and Legal TransplantD. Company Law in Eastern Europe Mirko Vasiljevia? : The Serbian Law on Commercial Companies - Alexandra Makovskaya : Russian Company and Capital Market Law - Oleg Zaitsev : 2009: Russian Corporate Legislation Reform Continues and Has to Be Continued - Ionu? Ra?dule?u : Recent Company Law Developments in the European Union - Tania Bouzeva : Company Law in Bulgaria - Radu N. Catana? : Romanian Company Law: Recent Evolution Between Autonomous Development and Legal Transplants - Andras Kisfaludi : Company Law in Hungary - Krzysztof Oplustil and Arkadiusz Radwan : Company Law in Poland: Between Autonomous Development and Legal Transplants

  • Edited by Christa Jessel-Holst
  • Edited by Rainer Kulms
  • Edited by Alexander Trunk