Module 2

Module 2 explores the quantitative macro-social, economic and demographic factors conducive to regional varieties in the social use of the instruments created by the civil procedural law during the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Which variables can explain the diverse and persisting patterns of legal mobilization after the procedural reforms? The module uses the Monarchy’s astonishingly rich yet hitherto hardly explored civil justice statistics as data sources and combine them with other statistics on social structures of the time.