Recodification and recent developments in the law of obligations in Central and Southeast Europe

The introductory chapter aims to provide a concise country-by-country overview of the recodification, modernization, and reform of the law of obligations in Central and Southeast Europe. The chapter discusses the place of the law of obligations within the private law system, structure of the law of obligations, and the foreign influences on the law of obligations in the following groups of Central and Southeast European countries: (i) the Baltic states: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; (ii) the Visegrad Group states: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary; (iii) the states on the territory of the former Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, and North Macedonia; and (iv) other Southeast European states: Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and Turkey. The introductory chapter also presents the issues which are analysed more thoroughly in the following chapters of the book and identifies some common features of the reforms of the law of obligations in Central and Southeast Europe.