Regional Private Laws and Codification in Europe

Considers how the process of 'Europeanization' will affect regions such as Scotland and Catalonia, and compares with similar jurisdictions elsewhere.

List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction Hector L. MacQueen, Antoni Vaquer and Santiago Espiau Espiau; 1. The civil law in European codes Reinhard Zimmermann; 2. 'A token of independence': debates on the history and development of Scots law Niall R. Whitty; 3. The Scottish civil code project Eric Clive; 4. Scots law in Europe: the case of contract Hector L. MacQueen; 5. Scottish property: a system of civilian principle. But could it be codified? David L. Carey Miller; 6. '... Quae ad ius Cathalanicum pertinet': the civil law of Catalonia, ius commune and the legal tradition Ferran Badosa Coll; 7. The codification of Catalan civil law Núria de Gispert i Català; 8. Unification of the European law of obligations and codification of Catalan civil law Santiago Espiau Espiau; 9. From revocation to non-opposability: modern developments of the Paulian action Antoni Vaquer; 10. Epistle to Catalonia: romance and rentabilidad in an anglophone mixed jurisdiction Shael Herman; 11. Estonia and the new civil law Martin Kaërdi; 12. The positive experience of the Civil Code of Québec in the North American common law environment Claude Masse; 13. From the code civil du bas Canada (1866) to the code civil Quebecois (1991), or from the consolidation to the reform of the law: a reflection for Catalonia Esther Arroyo i Amayuelas; 14. The evolution of the Greek civil law: from its Roman-Byzantine origins to its contemporary European orientation Eugenia Dacoronia; Index.