Modernisation, National Identity and Legal Instrumentalism (Vol. II: Public Law)

Michał Gałędek Ph.D. (2010), University of Gdańsk, is Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In his research he focuses on the Polish administration, judiciary, constitutionalism, and political thought at the beginning of the 19th century and in the interwar period. Anna Klimaszewska Ph.D. (2011), University of Gdańsk, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Legal History, Faculty of Law and Administration. In her research she focuses on the influence exerted by the French law on the shape of the Polish legal system, commercial law, civil procedure and national legal identity in the 19th century.

• Notes on Contributors1 Residential Right in the Course of Time: Changes in the Legal Institution of the Inkolat in the Bohemian Crown LandsJiří BrňovjákandMarek Starý2 Legal Transfers and National Traditions: Patterns of Modernization of the Administration in Polish Territories at the Turn of the 19th CenturyMichał Gałędek3 National Modernization through the Constitutional Revolution of 1848 in Hungary: Pretext and ContextImre Képessy4 Restoring the Hungarian Historical Constitutional Order with a Coronation in 1867Judit Beke-Martos5 The Privy Council Appeal and British Imperial Policy, 1833–1939Thomas Mohr6 Direct Impact on Hungarian Migration Policy of the 1870 Agreement on Citizenship between the United States and Austria-Hungary (1880s–1914)Balázs Pálvölgyi7 Political Systems in Transition and Cultural (In)dependence: The Limits of a Legal Transplant in the Example of the Brazilian’s Court of Auditors BirthMarjorie Carvalho de Souza8 Constitutional Systems of Free European States (1918–1939)Tadeusz Maciejewski and Maja Maciejewska-Szałas9 Local Citizenship in the Croatian-Slavonian Legal Area in the First Yugoslavia (1918–1941): Breakdown of a Concept?Ivan Kosnica10 Nazi Law as Pure Instrument: Natural Law, (Extra-)Legal Terror, and the Neglect of IdeologySimon LavisIndex