The Politics of European Codification

European codification of private law is talk of the day. The European Parliament favours it, the European Commission supports it and many legal scholars are already working on it. Why? This book addresses the forthcoming European codification from the perspective of previous codifications and their origin. Several current codifications, such as the French Code civil and the Austrian ABGB, found their origin in what can be referred to as State formation'. As uniformity was perceived to be crucial