Mańko on Form and Substance of Legal Continuity

Rafał Mańko, University of Amsterdam, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL), is publishing Form and Substance of Legal Continuity in volume 17(2) of Zeszyty Prawnicze. Here is the abstract.

The paper claims that the form vs. substance dichomoty is relevant for the study of legal continuity, however, only provided that the notion of ‘form’ refers to the ‘form of law,’ and the notion of ‘substance’ refers to the socio-economic reality which the law strives to regulate. Therefore, the study of legal continuity despite a socio-economic transformation is, ultimately, the study of interaction between the (unchanged) form and (changed) substance.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.