The Draft Civil Code for Israel in Comparative Perspective

The volume is based on a symposium that took place in the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law. It has to be seen in the context of the international renaissance of the concept of codification. When the State of Israel was founded in 1948, it was essentially a common law jurisdiction. Since then, Israeli private law has continuously moved closer towards the model of the civilian systems of Continental Europe. It has now, for the first time, been laid down in a comprehensive and systematic Draft Civil Code. The authors of this collection of essays analyze key areas of that Draft from an Israeli and comparative perspective. Contributors: Aharon Barak, Nili Cohen, Hanoch Dagan, Josef Drexl, Izhak Englard, Daniel Friedmann, Israel Gilead, Hans Christoph Grigoleit, Ofer Grosskopf, Eva-Maria Kieninger, Helmut Koziol, Gunther Kühne, Kurt Siehr, Christiane Wendehorst, Reinhard Zimmermann