Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making

Serge Dauchy is Research Director at the CNRS (Lille) and Professor of Legal History at the University Saint-Louis of Brussels. His main research topics are the history of civil procedure, comparative history of central courts and the legal history of Québec and Louisiana. Heikki Pihlajamäki is Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki. He has published extensively on the legal history of Scandinavia, Europe and America, including Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630-1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2017).Albrecht Cordes is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Legal History and Civil Law at Goethe University Frankfurt/Main. His research is especially focused on the history of commercial law, Hanseatic legal history and the history of conflict resolution.Dave De ruysscher is Associate Professor at Tilburg University and Vrije Universiteit Brussels. As a legal historian and lawyer, he specializes in the history of commercial and private law of the Early Modern period and the nineteenth century.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsIntroduction: colonial Adventures: commercial Law and Practice in the MakingSerge Dauchy, Albrecht Cordes, Dave De ruysscher, Heikki PihlajamäkiThe Rhetoric of Commercial Law in 4th-Century BC AthensDavid MirhadyTrading along Hadrian’s WallPaul du PlessisTrade and Law in New Spain in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesOscar Cruz BarneyScots Traders and Spanish Law in East FloridaM.C. MirowHow to ‘Mash up’ Lex Mercatoria from Civil Law fo Common Law: the Genesis of Lex Mercatoria in Lower-Canada History 1760–1866David GillesEnglish Mercantilist Thought and the Matter of Colonies from the 17th to the First Half of the 18th CenturyAlain ClémentThe Transplant and Adaption of Company Law in Colonial Victoria 1850–1900Phillip LiptonCompany Law transplants and Change in Colonial Southeast AsiaPetra MahyFrom Denial to Opportunity: Chinese Access to Colonial Law in the Netherlands Indies (1800–1942)Alexander ClaverCorporate Law in Colonial India: rise and Demise of the Managing Agency SystemUmakanth Varottil‘Neither the State nor the Individual Goes to the Colony in Order to Make a Bad Business’: state and Private Enterprise in the Making of Commercial Law in the German Colonies, ca. 1884 to 1914Jakob ZollmannCustoms Law in the Congo: on the Fiscal Bargaining Process between the Colonial State and Private Enterprise in Africa (1886–1914)Bas De RooThe Birth of a Colonial City: Tianjin 1860–1895Luigi NuzzoExperiences and Experimentations: two Words between Two WorldsBernard DurandIndex