The seminar aims to provide students with the necessary tools for a historical and comparative
understanding of the origins of contemporary commercial law.
understanding of the origins of contemporary commercial law.
teacher profile teaching materials
- Merchants' law as customary law
- The need for standardisation of commercial law at the European level
- The doctrine of the "lex mercatoria
- Legislation of nation states and commercial law
Programme
- Commercial law as 'special law' in relation to 'ius commune' in the early modern age- Merchants' law as customary law
- The need for standardisation of commercial law at the European level
- The doctrine of the "lex mercatoria
- Legislation of nation states and commercial law
Core Documentation
Documents and slides provided in the course of the lectures will be used.Attendance
Compulsory attendance.Type of evaluation
Oral examination.