Shattering Myths: The Curious History of the Bulgarian Law of Obligations

• Authors: Vassileva, Radosveta

Abstracts

EN

While Bulgarian scholars concur that Bulgaria’s Law of Obligations and Contracts, which was enacted in 1950 and which is still in force today following cosmetic changes in the early 1990s, is an original Bulgarian legal text, archival and comparative research shows that it is heavily based on the Italian Codice Civile of 1942. Why would a communist country seek inspiration in a country with a Fascist ideology? Exploring the reasons behind this legislative choice as well as the reasons why this ‘dark’ secret was buried for so long challenges traditional taxonomies of comparative law, reveals the peculiar patterns of legal change, including the key role of the legal scholar in the process, and demonstrates the power of comparative law in shattering myths in legal history.

Keywords

EN

Bulgarian Law of Obligations and Contracts; history of Bulgarian law; history of the Bulgarian law of obligations; influences of Bulgarian law; Italian Codice Civile; comparative legal history; patterns of legal change; myths in legal history; communist law of contract; Fascist law of contract; Bułgarskie prawo o zobowiązaniach i umowach; historia prawa bułgarskiego; historia bułgarskiego prawa zobowiązań; wpływy na prawo bułgarskie; włoski Codice Civile; porównawcza historia prawa; uwarunkowania zmian prawa; mity w historii prawa; komunistyczne prawo umów; faszystowskie prawo umów

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Studia Iuridica
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 82
• Pages: 309-327

Dates

published

2020-03-11

Contributors

author

Vassileva, Radosveta

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0013.9793