Leone Niglia Comparative Law Books Europe sku-159053891

Leone Niglia's paperback The Struggle for European Private Law, in the Modern Studies in European Law series, is listed under Comparative Law Books as sku-159053891. It examines European codification through comparative, historical, and constitutional approaches, including criticism grounded in questions of private law authority and legitimacy.

The book discusses the Common Frame of Reference and the proposed Optional Sales Law Code. Niglia develops a nomos-centred analysis that questions reducing private law to legislation or law to power. He describes the codification project as a developing form of government that excludes alternatives, challenges the plurality of private laws, and creates conflicts over both legal form and the substance of European private law.

The book considers the European Commission's codification strategy and revisits the Savigny-Thibaut dispute of 1814. It is aimed at readers of comparative and European law, private law, legal history, constitutional law, sociology of law, legal theory, and jurisprudence.