This detailed analysis of the content and configuration of civil codes
in diverse jurisdictions also examines their relationship with some
branches of private law as: family law, commercial law, consumer law and
private international law. It analyzes the codification, decodification
and recodification processes illuminating the dialogue between current
codes - and private law legislation in general - with Constitutions and
International Conventions.
The commentary elucidates the changing requirements of civil law as it
shifted from an early protection of patrimony to a support for
commercial and contractual law. It also explains the varying
trajectories of civil law, which in some jurisdictions was merged with
religious legal tenets in its codification of familial relations, while
in others it was fused with commercial law or, indeed, codified from
scratch as a discrete legal corpus. Elsewhere, the volume provides
material on differing approaches to consumer law, where relevant
legislation may be scattered across numerous statutes, and also on
private international law, a topic of increasing relevance in a world
where business corporations have interests in multiple jurisdictions
(and often play one off against another).
The volume features invited contributions from leading scholars in the
field of private law brought together for an in depth analysis of the
current regulatory attitude in this field of the law in jurisdictions
with diverse legal systems and traditions. In current times we are
witnessing the adoption of diverging regulatory solutions. Through the
analysis of the past and present of private law regulation, the volume
unveils the underlying trends and relevance of the codification method
across the world.
