Anna di Robilant

Making of Modern Property (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108849401
• Artikelnr.: 68961524

Autorenporträt

Anna di Robilant is Professor of Law at Boston University. A legal scholar trained in Europe and in the United States, she has published extensively on the history and theory of modern property law. She is the chair of the property section of the 'Common Core of European Private Law', a project that brings together more than 200 legal scholars and practitioners to analyse and map the connections and underlying similarities in contract, property, and torts laws across Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: The Romanist-bourgeois property culture: dominium,
the social function and resources; 1. What Roman antiquity had to offer: a
scientific method and a vast inventory of property concepts; 2. The
foundations of Romanist-bourgeois property: Robert Joseph Pothier and the
transition from medieval 'divided dominium' to modern absolute dominium; 3.
Crafting Romanist-bourgeois property: Roman antiquity, political reaction,
a rising bourgeoisie and scientism; 4. Reform, not revolution: modernizing
property in Germany; 5. The tensions of absolute property; 6. Roman
dominium in the republics of Latin America: property, nationhood, race and
economic development; 7. The social critics: the critique of absolute
dominium and the retrieval of the Roman social doctrines; Conclusions.