The Impact of Ideas on Legal Development

Michael Lobban is Professor of Legal History at Queen Mary, University of London, where his research interests lie in the fields of English legal history and the history of jurisprudence. Julia Moses is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Sheffield, where her research focuses on the intersection of social policy, the law and transnational connections in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain and Europe.

• 1. Introduction Michael Lobban and Julia Moses; 2. Responsibility, solidarity and state regulation in classical continental social theory Roger Cotterrell; 3. Individual and social responsibility in nineteenth-century British political thought Sandra den Otter; 4. The 'welfare state' in legal and social philosophy: origins and controversies José Harris; 5. Continental European jurisprudence, 1850–2000 John Bell; 6. English jurisprudence and tort theory Michael Lobban; 7. The left and wrongs: Marxism, law and torts Christine Sypnowich; 8. The process of codification applied to the law of delicts Jean-Louis Halpérin; 9. Codifications, commentators, and courts in tort law: the perception and application of the Civil Code and the Constitution by the German legal profession Nils Jansen; 10. The English codification debate and the role of jurists in the development of legal doctrines Alexandra Braun; 11. Regulating workplace hazards: the role of medical, scientific and technical experts in legal change P. W. J. Bartrip; 12. Expertise and the evolution of private law: the case of occupational illness in twentieth-century France Paul-André Rosental; 13. The notion of a European private law and a softer side to harmonisation Lucinda Miller.