Tilmann Röder

Gebundenes Buch

From Industrial to Legal Standardization, 1871-1914

Transnational Insurance Law and the Great San Francisco Earthquake

Beschreibung

Around 1900, standard contracts and clauses spread throughout international industries such as transport, insurance and finance. The "earthquake clause", which was globally introduced by reinsurers after the 1906 San Francisco catastrophe, exemplifies this paradigmatic change of the law.

Autor

Tilmann J. Röder wrote his PhD thesis at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main. He has been a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg since 2006 and is responsible for rule of law projects in Islamic countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and Egypt. He recently publishedConstitutionalism in Islamic Countries: Between Upheaval and Continuit (with Rainer Grote, eds., OUP 2011),

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 168mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9789004212374
• ISBN-10: 900421237X
• Artikelnr.: 34204025