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The first attempt to address comparative property law in a common integrative framework, this study discusses German, Italian, French, American, and British property law as mere variations based upon a few fundamental themes through which these nations developed legal systems to provide responses to common economic problems and to set legal foundations for working markets. Basic Principles of Property Law was produced to offer a common framework for the discussion of the law of property within countries in transition, thus it has its basis, not on just one legal system, but on the institutional commonalties that make western property law a working market institution. It offers a major challenge to conventional thinking that in property law the differences between common law and civil law are so important that common core research is impossible. Mattei hopes to guide the reader to think comparatively about property by shedding many preconceived formalistic abstractions. The substance of property law, he argues, is much more common throughout the Western legal tradition than legal scholars would have us believe. Through a set format and accessible writing, this book looks at national legal traditions as responses to common economic problems. It sets the foundations for further much needed integrative comparative legal research in the domain of property law.

This volume contains thoughts on the issue of Codification of European Private Law and on the present state of European Private Law by one of the protagonists of the debate that is unfolding in Europe. Taking a sometimes sharply critical view, Professor Mattei attempts to unveil what he considers biases, strategies and ideologies that affect the European legal process. The work attempts to open a basic and genuine political debate between legal scholars that Mattei considers an unavoidable pre-requisite of any major reform process in private law. Challenging the claim of technocratic neutrality shared by much of the most influential European legal academy, Mattei uses the tools of Comparative Law and Economics to set priorities on the table and to show some of the real stakes of the present process. The work explores fundamental areas of European private law, from the sources to contracts to trust law.

EXPROPRIERING är reglerat i lag så att den enskilde garanteras eersättning om hens mark tas i anspråk för andra syften. Men när stater eller kommuner säljer ut det som tillhör alla, och alltså även efterlevande släkten, då finns ingen motsvarande reglering. I Gemensam nytta undersöker den itanienske juridikprofessorn Ugo Mattei hur synen på det gemensammaförändrats från medeltiden till idag och visar hur centrala mänskliga behov och intressen blir klämnda mellan staters och privata aktörers jakt på vinst. Boken skrevs som en manifest och har väkt livlig debatt i Italien och runt om Europa, genom sitt pasionerande och sakkunniga försvar för allmänningen och våra gemensamma tillgångar.