History of Business Law (MLaw)

The dynamics of how economic law developed, are closely intertwined not only with changes in economic forms of action and regulatory structures, but also with changes in political rule and cultural practices. The course will explore these phenomena. The focus will be on the paths of development of the market order, market actors and their interactions across time. This examination has the Middle Ages as its starting point but will focus mainly on the Early Modern Period and Modernity.

The lecture will be held place as a face-to-face course. A recording will be available as a podcast in the IUS Teaching App in the days following the lecture.

The lecture is accompanied by the homepage of the chair and the IUS Teaching App. Here you will find relevant information, event materials, and podcasts. Course materials include the lecture slides and a script with source texts, references and short summaries. Furthermore, push notifications can be sent directly from the professor to you via the app/web version e.g. in case of a lecture rescheduling.

A very valuable tool if you are interested in further and reliable information on legal history in general is the website Legal History Online.

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ITA as a website for computers via https://teaching.ius.uzh.ch/

Access to Legal History Online