Swiss Legal History

ISBN-13: 9783631792094 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 342 str.

René Pahud de Mortanges

Opis

As the first legal history of Switzerland in English, this seminal work presents the legal development in the territory of today's Switzerland. Until 1798, the Swiss Confederation consisted of a conglomerate of around 50 local authorities with different constitutional statuses. The number of legislative jurisdictions was even greater; each territory, however small, had its own legal system before 1798. In the 19th century, legal unity was initially created within the framework of cantonal law and, since 1848, at the national level. Key developments of the 20th century were equality between men and women, social legislation and the influence of technological development. The focus of the book is on constitutional history, legal sources and legislation, court proceedings and jurisprudence. It also presents the political, economic and social backgrounds of legal developments

Spis treści

Part 1: The Roman and Frankish Period - 1 Celts and Romans - 2 Germans, Franks, and their Law - Part 2: The Confederation - 3 Formation and Consolidation of the Confederation - 4 The internal structure of the cantons - 5 Development of Law - 6 The administration of justice - 7 The beginnings of jurisprudence - Part 3: The Modern Era - 8 Constitutional development in the 19th and 20th - Centuries - 9 Legislation of the Helvetic Republic in the 19th century - 10 National legal unification - 11 New Issues in Legal Policy and Legislation

O autorze

René Pahud de Mortanges is Professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, where he teaches legal history, state-religion relation-ships, religious laws and constitutional law. He also serves as Director of the Institute of Law and Religion, and as Co-Director of the Center of Islam and Society, both at the University of Fribourg, and is Research Fellow at Renmin University in Bejing and Guest Professor at ECUPL in Shanghai. He is editor of the collections Freiburger Veröffentlichungen zum Religionsrecht and Europäische Rechts- und Regionalgeschichte.