Uses of civil justice and social policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1873 - 1914

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The FWF- funded project “Uses of civil justice and social policy, 1873 - 1914 (2022-2026, Grant DOI: 10.55776/P34380) analyzed the making and social effect of the Austrian code of civil procedure (ZPO, 1895/98) and its adaptation in Hungary (1911/15). Both have been regarded in historical literature as the foundation of social civil proceeding. Yet the empirical evidence of persistently high litigation rates in some crownlands after adopting the ZPO raised the hypothesis of regionally specific legal behavior. What was the social political meaning oft the legal reforms? How was the new civil procedural law used in various parts of the Monarchy? Did access to civil justice become a social right?

  • Module 1

    The project´s Module 1 carried out a contextualized historical assessment of the scientific and welfare character of the procedural reforms. It inquired into the making of the law with a focus on the interaction of actors with diverging interests and deploying various (statistical, legal and sociological) resources of knowledge.

  • Module 2

    Module 2 carried out a quantitative analysis of the macro-social, economic and demographic factors influencing the use of civil procedural law during the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Which variables can explain the diverse patterns of legal mobilization in the decades after the procedural reforms?

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