From Guild Welfare to Bismarck Care
professional guilds and the origins of modern social security law and insurance law in germany
$492.22
- Hardcover
348 pages
- Release Date
28 October 2020
Summary
From Guild Welfare to Bismarck Care: The Forerunners of Social Security
German literature often highlights the role of professional guilds in shaping insurance and social security. Guilds are commonly cited as predecessors to Germany’s social security system, but this impact has never been thoroughly analyzed.
This book offers an in-depth analysis of the support provided by professional guilds from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. It argues that modern literature i…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9783428181551 |
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| ISBN-10: | 3428181557 |
| Series: | Comparative Studies in the History of Insurance Law / Studien Zur Vergleichenden Geschichte des Versicherungsrechts |
| Author: | Phillip Hellwege |
| Publisher: | Duncker & Humblot |
| Imprint: | Duncker & Humblot |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 348 |
| Release Date: | 28 October 2020 |
| Weight: | 630g |
| Dimensions: | 231mm x 155mm |
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About The Author
Phillip Hellwege
Phillip Hellwege is Professor of Private Law, Commercial Law, and Legal History at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Before taking up his position in Augsburg he was from 2003 to 2010 a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. In 2015 he has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for a five-year project on a comparative history of insurance law in Europe. His research interests are (European) private law, comparative legal history and the history of commercial and insurance law.
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