International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law

Die International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (Abkürzung IECL) ist eine weltweit rechtsvergleichende, englischsprachige Enzyklopädie in 17 Bänden mit besonderem Schwerpunkt im Bereich des Privatrechts. Sie erscheint unter der Schirmherrschaft der International Association of Legal Science, einer Untergliederung der UNESCO.

Geschichte

Die Idee für das Projekt entstand in den frühen 1960er Jahren unter der Federführung von Konrad Zweigert, der später gemeinsam mit Ulrich Drobnig als Gesamtherausgeber und Leiter des Projekts fungierte. Jeder Band ist in sechs bis zwanzig Kapitel unterteilt, die zunächst als Broschurausgabe erscheinen. Jedem der Bände ist ein Herausgeber zugeordnet, dem die Gestaltung des einzelnen Bandes in Absprache mit den über 400 Autoren obliegt; ferner wird so die Koordination mit der Projektleitung gewährleistet.

Rezeption

“When the history of the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (IECL) is written, it will be hard to avoid using superlatives. Monumental in scope, unique in conception, unprecedented in its worldwide cooperation of comparative law specialists, and based on tremendous amounts of research, expertise and technical effort, this unique scholarly enterprise, when completed, might well be known as the ‘work of the century’ among comparative law scholars.”

– Adolf Sprudzs

Gliederung und Autoren

I. National Reports (Viktor Knapp, Prag)
II. The Legal Systems of the World/Their Comparison and Unification (René David, Paris)
1. Chapter 1: The Different Conceptions of Law (David, Tholonet/Sawer, Canberra/Afchar, Teheran/Derrett, London/Iyer, London/Noda, Tokio/M'Baye, Dakar)
2. Chapter 2: Structure and the Divisions of the Law (David, Tholonet/Szladits, New York/Weir, Cambridge (GB)/Tschchikvadze, Moskau/Zivs, Moskau/Chehata, Paris/Derrett, London/Iyer, London/Cotran, London)
3. Chapter 3: Sources of Law (David, Tholonet)
4. Chapter 4: Comparative law (Zweigert, Hamburg)
5. Chapter 5: The International Unification of Private Law (David, Tholonet)
III. Private International Law (Kurt Lipstein, Cambridge, England)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Sources
3. Chapter 3: Structure
4. Chapter 4: Connecting Factors
5. Chapter 5: Characterization
6. Chapter 6: Renvoi
7. Chapter 7: Preliminary Questions
8. Chapter 8: Intertemporal Conflict of Laws
9. Chapter 9: Interregional Conflict of Laws
10. Chapter 10: Interpersonal Conflict of Laws
11. Chapter 11: Ordre Public
12. Chapter 12: Operation of Foreign Public Law
13. Chapter 13: Effect of Constitutional Law Upon Conflict of Laws
14. Chapter 14: Application of Foreign Law
15. Chapter 15: Persons
16. Chapter 16: Marriage etc.
17. Chapter 17: Personal Effects of Marriage
18. Chapter 18: Effects of Marriage
19. Chapter 19: Children
20. Chapter 20: Succession
21. Chapter 21: Property
22. Chapter 22: Industrial Property
23. Chapter 23: Trusts
24. Chapter 24: Contracts
25. Chapter 25: Transport by Rail and Highway
26. Chapter 26: Transport by Sea
27. Chapter 27: Transport by Air
28. Chapter 28: Contracts of Employment
29. Chapter 29: Agency
30. Chapter 30: Quasi-Contracts
31. Chapter 31: Torts – Introduction
32. Chapter 32: Torts – Enterprise Liability
33. Chapter 33: Torts – Intentional Torts
34. Chapter 34: Unfair Competition
35. Chapter 35: Anti-Trust
36. Chapter 36: Currency
37. Chapter 37: Companies
38. Chapter 38: Jurisdiction
39. Chapter 39: Recognition and Enforcement
40. Chapter 40: Non-Litigious Proceedings, General Problems
41. Chapter 41: Insolvency
42. Chapter 42: Arbitration
43. Chapter 43: Judicial Assistance
44. Chapter 44: Procedure
IV. Persons and Family (Aleck Chloros, London)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Persons
3. Chapter 3: Conclusion of Marriage
4. Chapter 4: Interspousal Relations
5. Chapter 5: Divorce
6. Chapter 5A: Informal Marriages
7. Chapter 6: Creation of Relationships of Kinship (Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, Adoption)
8. Chapter 7: Children, Parents and Guardianship
9. Chapter 8: Family Support
10. Chapter 9: Torts Against and Within the Family
11. Chapter 10: The Family in the Socialist Countries
12. Chapter 11: The Family in Religious and Customary Laws
V. Succession (Karl Heinz Neumayer, Würzburg)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Decedent, Heir and other Beneficiaries
3. Chapter 3: Intestate Succession
4. Chapter 4: Testate Succession
5. Chapter 5: Limits and Restrictions of the Freedom of Testation
6. Chapter 6: Acts inter vivos Concerning the Estate of a Future de cuius
7. Chapter 7: Transactions Concerning the Rights of an Heir on Legatee After the Death of the de cuius
8. Chapter 8: Acquisition and Administration of the Estate
9. Chapter 9: Relationship Between Heirs and Other Beneficiaries inter se
10. Chapter 10: Liability for Obligations of a Decedent
11. Chapter 11: Procedure in Matters of Succession
12. Chapter 12: Rural Succession
13. Chapter 13: Religious Systems of Law
VI. Property and Trust (Bernard A. Rudden, Oxford)
1. Chapter 1: General
2. Chapter 2: Structural Variations in Property Law
3. Chapter 3: Movables
4. Chapter 4: Immovables: General
5. Chapter 5: Immovables: Limited Interest
6. Chapter 6: Immovables: Leases
7. Chapter 7: Immovables: Apartment Ownership
8. Chapter 8: Immovables: Neighbourhood and Urban Problems
9. Chapter 9: Immovables: Agrarian Problems
10. Chapter 10: Intangibles and Funds
11. Chapter 11: Trust
12. Chapter 12: Security in Movables and Intangibles
13. Chapter 13: Security in Immovables
14. Chapter 14: Registration of Immovables
15. Chapter 15: Natural Resources
VII. Contracts in General (Arthur von Mehren, Cambridge, Mass.)
1. Chapter 1: A General View of Contract
2. Chapter 2: Contract The Legal Institution
3. Chapter 3: Impact of Large Scale Business Enterprise Upon Contract
4. Chapter 4: Public Contracts
5. Chapter 5: Conctracts in the Socialist Economy
6. Chapter 6: Contract in Japan and China
7. Chapter 7: The Role of Contracts in Islamic Law
8. Chapter 8: Contract in Developing Societies
9. Chapter 9: The Formation of Contract
10. Chapter 10: Formal Requirements
11. Chapter 11: Defects in the Contracting Process
12. Chapter 12: Contracting under General Conditions
13. Chapter 13: Parties to Contractual Obligations
14. Chapter 14: Contracting Through Others: Agency
15. Chapter 15: When ist a Party Aggrieved by Deficiencies in the Other Party's Performance
16. Chapter 16: Remedies for Breach of Contract
17. Chapter 17: Comparative Observations
VIII. Specific Contracts (Konrad Zweigert, Hamburg)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Civil Law and Commercial Law
3. Chapter 3: Sale of Goods, Sale of Intangibles; Special Forms of Sales
4. Chapter 4: Installment Sales
5. Chapter 5: Overseas and Export Sales
6. Chapter 6: Sale of Land
7. Chapter 7: Use of Movables
8. Chapter 8: Contracts for Work on Goods and Building Contracts
9. Chapter 9: Commercial Services
10. Chapter 10: Professional and Other Independent Services
IX. Commercial Transactions and Institutions (Jacob Ziegel, Toronto)
1. Chapter 1: Credit Transactions
2. Chapter 2: Banks and Banking
3. Chapter 3: Public Law of Banking
4. Chapter 4: Negotiable Instruments
5. Chapter 5: Letters of Credit
6. Chapter 6: Documents of Title
7. Chapter 7: Insurance Contracts
8. Chapter 8: Public Law of Insurance
9. Chapter 9: Stock Exchanges
10. Chapter 10: Contracts of Guarantee and Indemnity
11. Chapter 11: Commodity Exchanges
X. Restitution-Unjust Enrichment and Negotiorum Gestio (Ernst von Caemmerer, Freiburg i.Br. und Detlef König, Mannheim)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Historical Development in Continental European Law
3. Chapter 3: Historical Development in the Common Law
4. Chapter 4: Socialist Legal Systems
5. Chapter 5:
6. Chapter 6: Restitution of Benefits Conferred Without Obligation
7. Chapter 7:
8. Chapter 8: Restitution of Benefits Conferred Under Illegal Contracts
9. Chapter 9: Restitution of Benefits Acquired Trough Interference with Another's Property
10. Chapter 10: Restitution of Benefits Acquired Through Breach of Fiduciary Relationship
11. Chapter 11: Reimbursement for Discharge of Another's Obligation
12. Chapter 12:
13. Chapter 13:
14. Chapter 14: Other Types of Unjust Enrichment
15. Chapter 15: Indirect Enrichment
16. Chapter 16:
17. Chapter 17: Negotiorum Gestio
XI. Torts (André Tunc, Paris)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Liability for One's Own Act
3. Chapter 3: Liability for Acts of Persons Unter Supervision
4. Chapter 4: Private and Governmental Liability for the Torts of Employees and Organds
5. Chapter 5: Liability for Damage Caused by Things
6. Chapter 6: Professional Liability
7. Chapter 7: Causation and Remoteness of Damage
8. Chapter 8: Consequences of Liability
9. Chapter 9: Personal Injury and Death
10. Chapter 10: Various Damages
11. Chapter 11: Collateral Benefits
12. Chapter 12: Complex Liabilities
13. Chapter 13: Procedural Questions
14. Chapter 14: Traffic Accident Compensation: Law and Proposals
XII. Law of Transport (René Rodiere, Paris)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: Railways
3. Chapter 3: Highways
4. Chapter 4: Maritime Transportation
5. Chapter 5: Inland Navigation
6. Chapter 6: Air Transportation
7. Chapter 7: Pipelines
8. Chapter 8: Transport Insurance
  1. a Land Transport
  2. b Inland Navigation
  3. c Maritime Transports
  4. d Air Transportation
XIII. Business and Private Organizations (Alfred Conrad, Ann Arbor)
1. Chapter 0: Scope and Terminology
2. Chapter 1: Partnership and Other Personal Associations for Profit
3. Chapter 2: Limited Liability Companies and private Companies
4. Chapter 3: Marketable Share Companies: Formation
5. Chapter 4: Marketable Share Companies: Administration and Control, Supervision
6. Chapter 5: Marketable Share Companies: Capital and Securities
7. Chapter 6: Fundamental Changes in Marketable Share Companies
8. Chapter 7: Company Systems and Affiliation
9. Chapter 8: Cooperative Organizations
10. Chapter 9: Non-profit Organizations
11. Chapter 9A: Foundations
12. Chapter 10: Securities Regulations
13. Chapter 11: Taxation of Business Organizations
14. Chapter 12A: Law and Accounting in Business Associations
15. Chapter 12B: Financial Disclosure in State Enterprises of Socialist Countries
16. Chapter 13: Governmental (Public) Enterprises
XIV. Copyright and Industrial Property (Eugen Ulmer, München)
1. Chapter 1: General Questions. The International Conventions (Ulmer, Kreuth)
2. Chapter 2: Copyright: National Systems and International Developments (Bogsch, Genf)
3. Chapter 3: Copyright: Comparison of law (Ringer, Washington)
4. Chapter 4: Protection of Inventions: National Systems and International Development (Beier, München/Pretnar, Ljubljana/Wallace, London)
5. Chapter 5: Patents and Utility Models (Beier, München/Godenhielm, Helsinki/Pretnar, Ljubljana/Tookey, Bromley/Wallace, London)
6. Chapter 6: Inventors Certificates, Rationalization Proposals and Discoveries (Pretnar/Ljubljana)
7. Chapter 7: Employee Inventions (Godenhielm, Helsinki)
8. Chapter 8: Exploitation of Inventions and Know-how (Godenhielm, Helsinki)
9. Chapter 9: Industrial Designs (Pérot-Morel, Grenoble)
10. Chapter 10: Trademarks: National Systems and International Developments (Krasser, München/Ladas, New York)
11. Chapter 11: Trademarks: Comparatison of law (Krasser, München/Ladas, New York)
12. Chapter 12: Unfair Competition: National Systems and International Developments (Grimes, Washington/Schricker, München/Verona, Zagreb)
13. Chapter 13: Unfair Competition: Comparison of Law (Grimes, Washington/Schricker, München/Verona, Zagreb)
XV. Labour Law (Bob A. Hepple, Canterbury)
1. Chapter 1: International Sources of Labour Law
2. Chapter 2: National Sources of Labour Law
3. Chapter 3: Scope of Labour Law as Regards Persons and Subject-Matter
4. Chapter 4: Making, Modification and Termination of Employment Relationships and the Obligations Resulting from Such Relationships in General
5. Chapter 5: Wages and Remuneration in General
6. Chapter 6: Hours of Work, Weekly Rest; The Employment of Protected Persons
7. Chapter 7: Health, Safety and Welfare
8. Chapter 8: Accidents at Work and Occupational Diseases: Social Insurance
9. Chapter 9: Tort Liability for Work Injury
10. Chapter 10: Labour Market Regulations
11. Chapter 11: Trade Unions and Employers' Associations
12. Chapter 12: Collective Bargaining and Collective Agreements
13. Chapter 13: Representation of the Employees at Plant and Enterprise Level
14. Chapter 14: Prevention and Settlement of Labour Disputes, Other than Conflicts of Right
15. Chapter 15: Strikes, Lockouts and Other Hostile Actions
16. Chapter 16: Labour Court and Organs of Arbitration
XVI. Civil Procedure (Mauro Cappelletti, Florenz)
1. Chapter 1: Introduction
2. Chapter 2: History of European Civil Procedure
3. Chapter 3: Organization and Roles of the Legal Profession
4. Chapter 4: Types of Relief Available (Judicial Remedies)
5. Chapter 5: Parties
6. Chapter 6: Ordinary Proceedings in First Instance:
7. Chapter 7: Evidence
8. Chapter 8: Attacks on Judicial Decisions
9. Chapter 9: Effects of Judicial Decisions
10. Chapter 10: Enforcement Proceedings
11. Chapter 11: Special Proceedings and Provisional Remedies
12. Chapter 12: Arbitration
13. Chapter 13: State Arbitration in the Socialist Countries
14. Chapter 14: Insolvency Procedures
15. Chapter 15: Civil Procedure in Developing Countries
XVII. State and Economy (Borislav T. Blagojevic, Belgrad und Kenneth W. Dam, Chicago)
1. Chapter 1: General Introduction
2. Chapter 2: The General Theory of the State and the Economy
3. Chapter 3: State Intervention: Introduction
4. Chapter 4: Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy
5. Chapter 5: Law Against Monopoly and Cartels
6. Chapter 6: Direct State Intervention
7. Chapter 7: Mandatory Contracts and Controls on Forms of Contract
8. Chapter 8: Planning
9. Chapter 9: Instruments and Consequences of State Regulation: Introduction
10. Chapter 10: Instruments of State Regulation
11. Chapter 11: Legal Consequences of Comprehensive Planning
12. Chapter 12: Particular Consequences of Comprehensive Planning
13. Chapter 13: Legal Protection of Firms Against State Regulation and State Inaction
14. Chapter 14: History and Theory of Property in Market Economy Countries
15. Chapter 15: History and Theory of Property in Socialist Countries
16. Chapter 16: Socialist Enterprises
17. Chapter 17: State Enterprises in Market Economy Countries
18. Chapter 18: Expropriation of Particular Property
19. Chapter 19: Regulation of Ownership and Use of Private Property
20. Chapter 20: Money and Foreign Exchange
21. Chapter 21: Introduction to Foreign Commerce and Investment
22. Chapter 22: Special Rules on Foreign Commerce and Investment in Market Economy Countries
23. Chapter 23: Special Rules on Foreign Commerce and Investment in Socialist Countries
24. Chapter 24: Regional Economic Organizations

Literatur

Ernst A. Kramer: Weltweite Rechtsvergleichung – Ein Zwischenbericht zur International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law. In: Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht. Band 13, Nr. 1, 1984, ISSN 0340-2479, S. 134–145, doi:10.1515/zgre.1984.13.1.134.
Adolf Sprudzs: The International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law: A Bibliographical Status Report. In: The American Journal of Comparative Law. Vol. 28, Nr. 1, 1980, S. 93–104.

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