Modernization, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. II

The driving force of the dynamic development of world legal history in the past few centuries, with the dominance of the West, was clearly the demands of modernization - transforming existing reality into what is seen as modern. The need for modernization, determining the development of modern law, however, clashed with the need to preserve cultural identity rooted in national traditions. With selected examples of different legal institutions, countries and periods, the authors of the essays in the two volumes Modernization, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. I: Private Law and Modernization, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism: Studies in Comparative Legal History, vol. II: Public Law seek to explain the nature of this problem.



Contributors are Judit Beke-Martos, Jiř Brňovj k, Marjorie Carvalho de Souza, Michal Galędek, Imre K pessy, Ivan Kosnica, Simon Lavis, Maja Maciejewska-Szalas, Tadeusz Maciejewski, Thomas Mohr, Bal zs P lv lgyi, and Marek Star .