Julie Rocheton, Ph.D. (2021), Universitat de València, Master in Legal History (2013), Université Pantheon-Assas, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The press about volume 1 in the series:"[The book] succeeds as an excellent point of entry to what at times can seem like a highly complex subject. [..] [The editors] and their fellow contributors have undoubtedly got the new series off to the strongest possible start." – Warren Swain, The Edinburgh Law Review

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsCodificationIntroductionIn Search of a Definition of the Civil CodeMethodologyBibliographyPart 1Introduction to Part One. Contextualizing CodificationNineteenth-Century Codification—Paradigm ShiftsCivil Codes in a Global ContextCodification in the US Context1 Not a Movement, but a Discussion The National Codification Framework1.1 Grasping the Common Law1.1.1 Common Law versus Rationalization Science1.1.2 Archaisms within the Common Law1.1.3 The Uncertainty of Common Law Rules1.1.4 A Common Law of Uncertain Shape1.2 Emancipation from Common Law1.2.1 Liberation from English Legacy1.2.2 Codification as Liberation from the Legal Profession1.3 Codifier Jeremy Bentham and the United States1.4 Concluding Remarks: Was There an American Codification Movement?2 The Development of Private Law Codification in the US States2.1 The Most Famous US Civil Codes: the Civil Codes of Louisiana2.1.1 The Survival of Civil Law in Louisiana2.1.2 The Evolution of the Civil Codes of Louisiana during the Nineteenth Century2.2 Common Law Civil Codes in Nineteenth-Century United States2.2.1 The States of Georgia and New York: One Year, Two Civil Codes, Two Models2.2.2 The Afterlives of the Civil Code of New YorkPart 23 Creating a Fertile Ground for Codification3.1 Official Legal Justification behind Codification3.2 State Institutions as Factors Influencing Codification3.2.1 The Impact of the Colonial Tradition3.2.2 The Direct Link between Codification and the Age of the State3.2.3 Civil Codes and Political Parties3.3 Population Migration Patterns and Civil Codes3.4 No Civil Code without a Man3.4.1 The Civil Codes: a Fuel for Dispute between Influential Men3.4.2 The Civil Codes, Legal Tools Advocated by Individual Men3.4.3 The Field Network3.5 Concluding Remarks4 Inside the US Civil Codes4.1 The Sources of Nineteenth-Century US Civil Codes4.1.1 The Civil Codes of Louisiana4.1.2 The Sources of a Code Like No Other, the Code of Georgia4.1.3 Sources of the Civil Code of New York and Its Heirs4.1.4 Comparative Study of the Use of Different Sources within the US Civil Codes4.2 The Shape of US Civil Codes4.2.1 Analysis of the Form of Civil Code Articles: Syntax and Type of Provisions4.2.2 Bilingualism and the Special Case of Louisiana4.2.3 The Structure of the Civil Codes: an Assertion of US UniquenessPart 35 One Nation, Distinct Conceptions of Codification5.1 US Civil Codes: Compilation, Innovation, and Recodification5.2 The Circulation of the Civil Codes and the Snowball Effect5.3 The American Dictionaries and Codification6 The Civil Codes in Action6.1 The Codification Process within the States, a Legal Turn6.1.1 The institutional Mechanics of Codification6.1.2 The Code Commission and Commissioners6.1.3 The Submission of Codes and Their Possible Adoption6.2 The Peripheral Articles of the Codes6.2.1 The Establishment of the Interpretation of the Code6.2.2 The Abrogative Articles in the Civil Codes6.3 The Application of the US Civil Codes6.3.1 A Civil Code: the Main and Exclusive Source of Private Law in Louisiana6.3.2 The Common Law Codes as Subsidiary Sources of LawConclusionTimetableAppendixIndex

Julie Rocheton, Ph.D. (2021), Universitat de València, Master in Legal History (2013), Université Pantheon-Assas, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The press about volume 1 in the series:"[The book] succeeds as an excellent point of entry to what at times can seem like a highly complex subject. [..] [The editors] and their fellow contributors have undoubtedly got the new series off to the strongest possible start." – Warren Swain, The Edinburgh Law Review

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsCodificationIntroductionIn Search of a Definition of the Civil CodeMethodologyBibliographyPart 1Introduction to Part One. Contextualizing CodificationNineteenth-Century Codification—Paradigm ShiftsCivil Codes in a Global ContextCodification in the US Context1 Not a Movement, but a Discussion The National Codification Framework1.1 Grasping the Common Law1.1.1 Common Law versus Rationalization Science1.1.2 Archaisms within the Common Law1.1.3 The Uncertainty of Common Law Rules1.1.4 A Common Law of Uncertain Shape1.2 Emancipation from Common Law1.2.1 Liberation from English Legacy1.2.2 Codification as Liberation from the Legal Profession1.3 Codifier Jeremy Bentham and the United States1.4 Concluding Remarks: Was There an American Codification Movement?2 The Development of Private Law Codification in the US States2.1 The Most Famous US Civil Codes: the Civil Codes of Louisiana2.1.1 The Survival of Civil Law in Louisiana2.1.2 The Evolution of the Civil Codes of Louisiana during the Nineteenth Century2.2 Common Law Civil Codes in Nineteenth-Century United States2.2.1 The States of Georgia and New York: One Year, Two Civil Codes, Two Models2.2.2 The Afterlives of the Civil Code of New YorkPart 23 Creating a Fertile Ground for Codification3.1 Official Legal Justification behind Codification3.2 State Institutions as Factors Influencing Codification3.2.1 The Impact of the Colonial Tradition3.2.2 The Direct Link between Codification and the Age of the State3.2.3 Civil Codes and Political Parties3.3 Population Migration Patterns and Civil Codes3.4 No Civil Code without a Man3.4.1 The Civil Codes: a Fuel for Dispute between Influential Men3.4.2 The Civil Codes, Legal Tools Advocated by Individual Men3.4.3 The Field Network3.5 Concluding Remarks4 Inside the US Civil Codes4.1 The Sources of Nineteenth-Century US Civil Codes4.1.1 The Civil Codes of Louisiana4.1.2 The Sources of a Code Like No Other, the Code of Georgia4.1.3 Sources of the Civil Code of New York and Its Heirs4.1.4 Comparative Study of the Use of Different Sources within the US Civil Codes4.2 The Shape of US Civil Codes4.2.1 Analysis of the Form of Civil Code Articles: Syntax and Type of Provisions4.2.2 Bilingualism and the Special Case of Louisiana4.2.3 The Structure of the Civil Codes: an Assertion of US UniquenessPart 35 One Nation, Distinct Conceptions of Codification5.1 US Civil Codes: Compilation, Innovation, and Recodification5.2 The Circulation of the Civil Codes and the Snowball Effect5.3 The American Dictionaries and Codification6 The Civil Codes in Action6.1 The Codification Process within the States, a Legal Turn6.1.1 The institutional Mechanics of Codification6.1.2 The Code Commission and Commissioners6.1.3 The Submission of Codes and Their Possible Adoption6.2 The Peripheral Articles of the Codes6.2.1 The Establishment of the Interpretation of the Code6.2.2 The Abrogative Articles in the Civil Codes6.3 The Application of the US Civil Codes6.3.1 A Civil Code: the Main and Exclusive Source of Private Law in Louisiana6.3.2 The Common Law Codes as Subsidiary Sources of LawConclusionTimetableAppendixIndex

Julie Rocheton, Ph.D. (2021), Universitat de València, Master in Legal History (2013), Université Pantheon-Assas, is a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

The press about volume 1 in the series:"[The book] succeeds as an excellent point of entry to what at times can seem like a highly complex subject. [..] [The editors] and their fellow contributors have undoubtedly got the new series off to the strongest possible start." – Warren Swain, The Edinburgh Law Review

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsCodificationIntroductionIn Search of a Definition of the Civil CodeMethodologyBibliographyPart 1Introduction to Part One. Contextualizing CodificationNineteenth-Century Codification—Paradigm ShiftsCivil Codes in a Global ContextCodification in the US Context1 Not a Movement, but a Discussion The National Codification Framework1.1 Grasping the Common Law1.1.1 Common Law versus Rationalization Science1.1.2 Archaisms within the Common Law1.1.3 The Uncertainty of Common Law Rules1.1.4 A Common Law of Uncertain Shape1.2 Emancipation from Common Law1.2.1 Liberation from English Legacy1.2.2 Codification as Liberation from the Legal Profession1.3 Codifier Jeremy Bentham and the United States1.4 Concluding Remarks: Was There an American Codification Movement?2 The Development of Private Law Codification in the US States2.1 The Most Famous US Civil Codes: the Civil Codes of Louisiana2.1.1 The Survival of Civil Law in Louisiana2.1.2 The Evolution of the Civil Codes of Louisiana during the Nineteenth Century2.2 Common Law Civil Codes in Nineteenth-Century United States2.2.1 The States of Georgia and New York: One Year, Two Civil Codes, Two Models2.2.2 The Afterlives of the Civil Code of New YorkPart 23 Creating a Fertile Ground for Codification3.1 Official Legal Justification behind Codification3.2 State Institutions as Factors Influencing Codification3.2.1 The Impact of the Colonial Tradition3.2.2 The Direct Link between Codification and the Age of the State3.2.3 Civil Codes and Political Parties3.3 Population Migration Patterns and Civil Codes3.4 No Civil Code without a Man3.4.1 The Civil Codes: a Fuel for Dispute between Influential Men3.4.2 The Civil Codes, Legal Tools Advocated by Individual Men3.4.3 The Field Network3.5 Concluding Remarks4 Inside the US Civil Codes4.1 The Sources of Nineteenth-Century US Civil Codes4.1.1 The Civil Codes of Louisiana4.1.2 The Sources of a Code Like No Other, the Code of Georgia4.1.3 Sources of the Civil Code of New York and Its Heirs4.1.4 Comparative Study of the Use of Different Sources within the US Civil Codes4.2 The Shape of US Civil Codes4.2.1 Analysis of the Form of Civil Code Articles: Syntax and Type of Provisions4.2.2 Bilingualism and the Special Case of Louisiana4.2.3 The Structure of the Civil Codes: an Assertion of US UniquenessPart 35 One Nation, Distinct Conceptions of Codification5.1 US Civil Codes: Compilation, Innovation, and Recodification5.2 The Circulation of the Civil Codes and the Snowball Effect5.3 The American Dictionaries and Codification6 The Civil Codes in Action6.1 The Codification Process within the States, a Legal Turn6.1.1 The institutional Mechanics of Codification6.1.2 The Code Commission and Commissioners6.1.3 The Submission of Codes and Their Possible Adoption6.2 The Peripheral Articles of the Codes6.2.1 The Establishment of the Interpretation of the Code6.2.2 The Abrogative Articles in the Civil Codes6.3 The Application of the US Civil Codes6.3.1 A Civil Code: the Main and Exclusive Source of Private Law in Louisiana6.3.2 The Common Law Codes as Subsidiary Sources of LawConclusionTimetableAppendixIndex