Overview
This edited volume examines two recent Central European recodifications of civil law. The contributors present and discuss the regulation and the fundamental changes related to the new Civil Codes in each country. They also highlight the novelties and some of the issues of great debate of the new regulation. The papers investigate specific parts of the two Civil Codes. Coverage reviews default rules of legal persons and companies, key issues of the new regulations of property law, and the topic of intellectual property. The contributors also consider the law of obligation, unforeseeable changes in circumstances in contracts, family law and law of succession, and more. Hungary and Romania connect to each other by their special historical and cultural background, which serves as a solid basis of great cooperation. This volume shows how the two countries view civil law. It offers readers straightforward and practice-oriented knowledge on the subject.
Full Product Details
Author: Attila Menyhárd ,
Emőd Veress
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Volume: 63
Weight: 4.794kg
ISBN: 9783319633268
ISBN 10: 3319633260
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 24 August 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier.
Author Information
Attila Menyhárd is full professor of private law, head of department and dean of Eötvös Loránd University Law School in Budapest, Hungary. President of the Advisory Board to the Curia (e.g. highest court in Hungary); member of the Operative Committee for Recodification of the Hungarian Civil Code; fellow of the European Centre for Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL). His research interests cover among other things tort law, contract law, property law, company law, trusts, law and economics, human rights in private law, the relations and borderlines of private and public law and the private law aspects of European law. Emőd Veress is full professor of private law and head of department at the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania in Cluj-Napoca, Romania; arbitrator and attorney. Secretary general of the “Societas — Central and Eastern European Company Law Research Network”; member of the “European Society of Comparative Legal History.” Author of a very succesful Romanian study book on the general part of the law of obligations and of a monograph on suretyship contracts. His research interests cover among other things law of obligations, creditor protection in company law and insolvency law, comparative private law.
