The Revival of Private Law in Central and Eastern Europe
Essays in Honour of Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge
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Table of contents
List of Abbreviations. List of Contributors. A Word from the Editors. Foreword; G. van den Berg. Civil Law in Eastern Europe : A Group Portrait: General Survey of Developments in Eastern Europe in the Field in Civil Law; H. Izdebski. Civil Law in the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth: General Aspects: Civil Society and Civil Law; B. Rudden. Soviet Civil Law as Legal History: a Chapter or a Footnote; A. Schmidt. Ideological Remnants in Civil Law; J. Hazard. The System of the Civil Law in the New Commonwealth; O. Ioffe. The General Part of the Russian Civil Code; M.S. Braginskii. The Constitution, the Constitutional Court, and the Development of Russian Civil Law in the Transition Period; G. van den Berg. Russian Environmental Law; T. Hoya. Property and Contracts in Russian Civil Law: Tort Law and the State and Russia; D. Barry. History of Soviet Inheritance Abroad: Soviet Heirs in American and Canadian Estates. Soviet/Russian Succession Law: Recent Past and Uncertain Present; Y. Luryi. Privatization and the Development of Russian Civil Law; S. Reynolds. Corporate Law in the Private Sector: The Role of State Control; W.B. Simons. On Property Rights in the Russian Federation; K. Malfliet. Law of Lease in Russia; H. Oda. Secured Transactions in Russian Civil Law; W. Timmermans. Industrial Property in the Russian Federation; P. Maggs. The Role of Law in the Development of the Russian Information Society; C. Prins. Civil Law in the Russian Federation: International Aspects: Private International Law; M.M. Boguslavskii. The Relationship between International and Domestic Law and the Impact on Civil Law; G. Ginsburgs. Foreign Legal Assistance in the CIS: Lessons from the Early Years; W.E. Butler. Civil Law in Other Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Codification of Civil Law in Albania; G. Ajani. Recent Developments in Privatization Laws, Banking Laws and Dispute Resolution in Hungary; I. Jankovich. Civil Law in Bulgaria: The Relationship between International and Domestic Law and the Impact on Civil Law (with Special Emphasis on the Law of Obligations and Developments in Intellectual Property); T. Kamenova. Security Interests in the Czech Republic; B. Roelvink. Epilogue: Reflections on a Civil Law for Russia; F.J.M. Feldbrugge. Bibliography of the Works of Professor F.J.M. Feldbrugge, Commemorating his 25th Year as Professor of Law at Leiden University; A.P. Pries. Selected Bibliography on Civil Law in the Former Soviet Union; A.P. Pries.
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