The Making of Modern Property: Reinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950

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Anna di Robilant (Boston University)

The Making of Modern Property

Reinventing Roman Law in Europe and its Peripheries 1789–1950

Anna di Robilant (Boston University)

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English

Cambridge University Press
27 July 2023

Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Roman law; Comparative law; Legal history

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.

By: Anna di Robilant (Boston University)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 690g
ISBN: 9781108494779
ISBN 10: 1108494773
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 27 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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.