This book provides an introduction to the rise and development of present-day private law.

The constitutional question is of paramount importance in the political and nationalist agenda of late twentieth-century Europe. Professor van Caenegem's new bo

The civil law systems of continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world, including Japan, share a common legal heritage derived from Roman law.

Original sources illustrate and compare the principal doctrines of private law in the United States, England, France, Germany and China.