The struggle for European private law : a critique of codification / Leone Niglia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contents; Prologue; I . An Argument; II . Structure; 1 Code; I . Advent of the European Code Project (1989 to Today); II . Portraying the European Code Project; III . Genealogy of the European Code-Text: Of Continuity and Discontinuity in European Legal Thought from Lando's Principles to the DCFR; A . The Great Convergence of Acquis Commun and Acquis Communautaire; B. Advent of the Principles; IV . Function of the European Code-Text. The Return of Code-based Universalisation and Disciplining.

A . The Proposed Code as a Device for Law's UniversalisationB. The Proposed Code as a Device for Law's Disciplining; V . On the Need to Explore the Codification Phenomenon from the Perspective of the Wider Range of Jurisprudential Forces; 2 Jurisprudence; I . Introduction; II . Development of a Pluralist Private Law out of Classical Jurisprudence; A . Turning Points in History: Politicisation Processes in the Twentieth Century; B. Into Politicisation I: Of Agency and Techniques (the Legislative Branch); C. Into Politicisation II: Of Agency and Techniques (Jurisprudential Vocabularies).

III . Pluralism Beyond the State: The Development of a European Private Law Jurisprudence out of Domestic StructuresA . Constitutional Private Law I: 'Low Intensity'; B. Constitutional Private Law II: 'High Intensity'; 3 Code vs Jurisprudence; I . Regimenting the Living Jurisprudence qua Europe's Constitutional Pluralism; A . Mandatory Rules; B. Default Rules; C. Choice; D. Further Criticism Towards the Proposed Optional Code -- The Code vs Parliaments; II . Synthesis of the Constitutional Critique; A . De-constitutionalising Private Law; B. Re-constitutionalising Private Law.

4 Jurisprudence vs JurisprudenceI . Introduction: The View from Jurisprudence; A . Code as Nomos: The Jurisprudential Movement behind Codification; B. Code as Thesis: The View from the Legislature; C. Code as Nomos-and-Thesis Phenomenon: Between Jurisprudence and Legislation; D. Divided Nomos: Jurisprudence versus Jurisprudence; II . Conclusion; Epilogue; I . Of Codification and Critique; II . Of Codification and its Poverty; Bibliography; Index.

This new book considers the European codification project in light of a series of broader analytical frameworks - comparative, historical and constitutional - which make modern codification intelligible.

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