Anna Di Robilant

The Making of Modern Property

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Produktbeschreibung

In this original intellectual history, Anna di Robilant traces the history of one of the most influential legal, political, and intellectual projects of modernity: the appropriation of Roman property law by liberal nineteenth-century jurists to fit the purposes of modern Europe. Drawing from a wealth of primary sources, many of which have never been translated into English, di Robilant outlines how a broad network of European jurists reinvented the classical Roman concept of property to support the process of modernisation. By placing this intellectual project within its historical context, she shows how changing class relations, economic policies and developing ideologies converged to produce the basis of modern property law. Bringing these developments to the twentieth century, this book demonstrates how this largely fabricated version of Roman property law shaped and continues to shape debates concerning economic growth, sustainability, and democratic participation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781108494779
• ISBN-10: 1108494773
• Artikelnr.: 67325714

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.