Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland (Early Modern Period–Nineteenth Century)

Katja Tikka, Ph.D. (2020), has worked as research assistant and Ph.D. student at the University of Helsinki in the project “The Making of Commercial Law”, which produced this book. Her research focuses on the early modern trading companies.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: A Swedish-Finnish ViewpointKatja Tikka and Jussi Sallila2 “Unlawful Contracts and Foreign Subtlety’’ – (In)Tolerance towards External Legal Customs and Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Stockholm, c. 1475–1635Marko Lamberg3 Chartered Companies in Sweden, the Dutch Republic and England (c.1600–c.1630): Experiments in Corporate GovernanceDave De ruysscher4 The Swedish Tar Company – Balancing Between Privileges, Commerce and Foreign PoliticsKatja Tikka5 Invisibility and Information: Commercial Legal Practices at the Grass-Roots Level in a Nineteenth-Century Finnish Timber Trading CompanyUlla Ijäs6 Commercial Law on the Periphery: University Teaching of Commercial Law in Finland, ca. 1780–1846Jussi Sallila7 The Making of Modern Scholarship of Commercial Law in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Finland: Models and AdaptationsHeikki Pihlajamäki8 Sweden and Finland: A Lively Laboratory for Commercial Laws and PracticesStefania GialdroniIndex