Bernstein K. I.

Bernstein K. I. «The Doctrine of Several (Alternative) Obligations in Roman Law and Modern Legislations.» — St. Petersburg: Printing House of the "Obshchestvennaya Polza" Partnership, 1871, 328 p.

The work is devoted to the theory of several (alternative) obligations in Roman law and their reception in modern legislations. The author dwells in detail on the French and Baltic (Ostsee) laws in force within Russia, and also attempts to clarify to what extent the fundamental principles of the theory of alternative obligations may find application in Russian courts on the basis of the general provisions of Volume X of the Code of Laws. The publication is of interest to historians of law, specialists in civil law, and collectors who assemble libraries of Russian civilists of the 19th century.

Karl Ilyich Bernstein (1842, Odessa — 1894, Berlin) was a Russian legal scholar, civilist, and professor of law at the University of Berlin. He was the first Jew admitted by the University of Berlin to defend a doctoral dissertation (1864). From 1878 he was a privat-docent at the University of Berlin, and from 1887 a professor; he was one of the directors of the Russian Institute at the University of Berlin for the training of professors of Roman law.