Private Law Development in Context: German Law and Scholarship in the 20th Century

Subject: German Law, Private Law, Legal History. The individual portraits of the life and work of each professor are written by one of their former 'Schueler.' Taken together, this book shows the thread of the intellectual history of legal thinking in 20th century German private law. As a result, it seems vital to shed more light on professors who were highly influential in the development of German private law in the 20th century. Furthermore, in both the past and the present, courts and scholars in Germany are in constant dialogue about the application and interpretation of German, and also EU, law. They fostered such concepts and ideas as the birth of modern market and institutional regulation, genuine internationalization, in particular through comparative law, and Europeanization of private law, 'social' areas of the law, particularly labour and consumer law and fundamental rights' protection between private parties, and equally the law of competition and enterprise. This book compiles and puts into perspective portrai