A societal private law
This comment discusses on how legal change can originate from society and the private sphere. It argues that Hesselink’s perspective is too strongly oriented on public sphere and ignores the societal sphere including its transformative potential. The comment centres the concept of private law instit...
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2022-06-01
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| description | This comment discusses on how legal change can originate from society and the private sphere. It argues that Hesselink’s perspective is too strongly oriented on public sphere and ignores the societal sphere including its transformative potential. The comment centres the concept of private law institutions and institutional change that is a core element in both Katharina Pistor’s diagnosis on coding of capital in law and Martijn Hesselink’s related proposal to reform private law institutions through a comprehensive principle-oriented code. The comment first introduces the idea of legal institutionalism in Pistor and Hesselink to then add to it an additional perspective from a new institutional theory that identifies the transformative potential within the social institutions themselves. It is then argued that the law, rather than being in need of radical change, needs to be radical in being responsive to the societal institutions. The contribution concludes by outlining on the basis of three examples – contract, tort and private international law – how societally responsive private law institutions can look like. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f0b7331e87c14d83b506141b28e298872023-03-09T12:32:19ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Law Open2752-61352022-06-01138038910.1017/elo.2022.22A societal private lawAnna Beckers0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-7042Associate Professor of Private Law and Legal Methodology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The NetherlandsThis comment discusses on how legal change can originate from society and the private sphere. It argues that Hesselink’s perspective is too strongly oriented on public sphere and ignores the societal sphere including its transformative potential. The comment centres the concept of private law institutions and institutional change that is a core element in both Katharina Pistor’s diagnosis on coding of capital in law and Martijn Hesselink’s related proposal to reform private law institutions through a comprehensive principle-oriented code. The comment first introduces the idea of legal institutionalism in Pistor and Hesselink to then add to it an additional perspective from a new institutional theory that identifies the transformative potential within the social institutions themselves. It is then argued that the law, rather than being in need of radical change, needs to be radical in being responsive to the societal institutions. The contribution concludes by outlining on the basis of three examples – contract, tort and private international law – how societally responsive private law institutions can look like.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2752613522000224/type/journal_articleprivate lawlegal institutionsnew institutionalismcollective self-governancecode of capital |
| spellingShingle | Anna Beckers A societal private law European Law Open private law legal institutions new institutionalism collective self-governance code of capital |
| title | A societal private law |
| title_full | A societal private law |
| title_fullStr | A societal private law |
| title_full_unstemmed | A societal private law |
| title_short | A societal private law |
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| topic | private law legal institutions new institutionalism collective self-governance code of capital |
| url | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2752613522000224/type/journal_article |
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