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The Making of the Civil Codes

A Twenty-First Century Perspective

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Editors:
  1. Michele Graziadei

    1. Law Department, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

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  2. Lihong Zhang

    1. East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China

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  • Presents a state of the art assessment of major contemporary civil codifications
  • A unique comparative perspective on the way civil codes are updated and reformed
  • Highlights current trends in the making of civil codes across the world

Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 104)

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. On Civil Codes: A Twenty-First Century Perspective

    • Michele Graziadei, Lihong Zhang
    Pages 1-16

  3. The Codifications at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

    • Rémy Cabrillac
    Pages 17-30

  4. Civil Law in Spain is Plural, as Are Its National Civil Codes

    • Esther Arroyo Amayuelas
    Pages 31-49

  5. The Making of the Turkish Civil Code

    • Başak Baysal, Gizem Arslan
    Pages 51-63

  6. The Perpetual French Codification

    • Michel Cannarsa
    Pages 65-87

  7. The Making, Meaning and Application of Civil Codes in the Netherlands

    • Emanuel G. D. van Dongen
    Pages 89-107

  8. The Italian Civil Code at Eighty: Facing Old Age

    • Michele Graziadei
    Pages 109-125

  9. Blitzkrieg Codification: The 2020 Belgian Civil Code

    • Dirk Heirbaut
    Pages 127-148

  10. The Making of the Argentine Civil and Commercial Code

    • Aida Rosa Kemelmajer de Carlucci
    Pages 149-164

  11. Civil Law and Social Changes in Korea in the Past 30 Years

    • Sang Yong Kim
    Pages 165-180

  12. Between Globalization and Localization: Japan’s Struggle to Properly Update Its Civil Code

    • Souichirou Kozuka
    Pages 181-201

  13. The Chinese Civil Code: The Problem of Systematization

    • Qiao Liu
    Pages 203-222

  14. Reinforcing the French Legacy While Borrowing from the Common Law: The Civil Code of Quebec (1991)

    • Michel Morin
    Pages 223-248

  15. The German BGB: What Needs to Be Changed and Why

    • Christoph G. Paulus
    Pages 249-271

  16. Second Wave of the PostSocialist Civil Law Recodification in Russia

    • Andrej A. Pavlov, Natalia J. Rasskazova, Anton D. Rudokvas
    Pages 273-294

  17. The Civil Codes of Switzerland from a Historical and Comparative Perspective: Some Reflections Based on the Swiss Experience

    • Pascal Pichonnaz
    Pages 295-313

  18. The 2002 Brazilian Civil Code

    • Ignacio Maria Poveda Velasco, Eduardo Tomasevicius Filho
    Pages 315-328

  19. The Making of a Civil Code: The Hungarian Example

    • Lajos Vékás
    Pages 329-339

  20. System Innovations: Characteristics and Contributions of the Chinese Civil Code

    • Liming Wang
    Pages 341-363
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About this book

The book provides in-depth analysis of the new perspectives on codifications, and of the related reforms, that give recognition to new ideas, new needs, and new techniques. The contributions from several jurisdictions collected in this book provide a much needed evaluation of the current impact of codification on the law and are a first, essential reference for assessing the importance of civil law codifications in the contemporary world.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Law Department, University of Torino, Torino, Italy

    Michele Graziadei

  • East China University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai, China

    Lihong Zhang

About the editors

​Michele Graziadei is Professor of Comparative Private Law at the University of Torino. His research focuses on the methodology of comparative law, legal pluralism, law and language, and other theoretical problems involving the comparison of laws. He is President of the Italian society for Research of comparative Law (SIRD), Collegio Carlo Alberto fellow, and Past president of the European Law Faculties Association (ELFA); He is the author of over 100 publications in several languages; his recent publications include Comparative Property Law: Global Perspectives (edited with L. Smith), and Personal Autonomy in Plural societies (edited with M.-C. Foblets and A.D. Renteln).

Lihong Zhang is Professor of Civil Law, Roman Law, and Comparative Law at the East University of Political Science and Law, Shanghai. He is Director of the Research Center on Roman Law and European Law and Vice Director of the  Civil Law Research Center of the same university. Prof. Zhang is Vice General Secretary of China’s National Society of Civil Law, Director of China’s National Society of Comparative Law, and Standing Director of China’s National Society of European Law. He is  Member of the International Academy Comparative Law and Member of the International Editorial Board of European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH). He has published widely on Civil Law and Roman law in comparative perspectives.

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