Party Autonomy and the Role of Information in the Internal Market / / hrsg. von Stefan Grundmann, Wolfgang Kerber, Stephen Weatherill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Law - 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Coester-Waltjen, Dagmar,; Collins, Hugh,; Deakin, Simon,; Grundmann, Stefan,; Hopt, Klaus J.,; Kerber, Wolfgang,; Kirchner, Christian,; Merkt, Hanno,; Micklitz, Hans-W.,; Müller-Graff, Peter-Christian,; Riesenhuber, Karl,; Schwintowski, Hans-Peter,; Ulen, Thomas S.,; Usher, John A.,; Vanberg, Viktor,; Weatherill, Stephen,; Wein, Thomas,; Windbichler, Christine,; Wolf, Manfred,
• HerausgeberIn: Grundmann, Stefan,; Kerber, Wolfgang,; Weatherill, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: German
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (397 p.)

Die Frage nach der Privatautonomie und ihren Grenzen spielt seit jeher eine bedeutende Rolle in den nationalen Vertrags- und Privatrechten. Auf europäischer Ebene dominieren Regeln, die zwar die Informationenpreisgabe zwingend vorschreiben, die Bestimmung des Vertragsinhalts dann jedoch wieder den Parteien überantworten. Dieses Grundsatzthema über Geist und Funktionieren des Binnenmarktes, mit dem nach einer möglichst weitgehenden Erhaltung von Freiheit bei gleichzeitiger Verbürgung der notwendigen Schutzziele gefragt ist, ist Gegenstand des vorliegenden Bandes. Es wird hier von Rechtswissenschaftlern und Ökonomen aus verschiedenen Mitgliedstaaten und den U.S.A. erörtert.Zentraler Betrachtungsgegenstand ist die Informationsregel und ihre Ausgestaltung. Insgesamt vereint der Band zweierlei, zum einen die Grundsatzdiskussion - rechtswissenschaftlich, europarechtlich und ökonomisch - zum Regelungsansatz im Recht des Binnenmarkthandels und zum wichtigsten Instrument, der Informationsregel mit ihrer freiheitserhaltenden Grundausrichtung. Andererseits bietet er eine dogmatische Aufbereitung wesentlicher Teile des Rechts des Binnenmarkthandels, des Europäischen Schuldvertragsrechts.

Examination of Party Autonomy and its limits has always raised fundamental questions in national contract and private law. The concentration on information solutions which enhance and leave more space to party autonomy is a fundamentally new approach to this core issue and is typical of Community legislation. The complexity of the question made it advisable to have the different aspects treated and discussed by specialists in different areas: by legal scholars and economists, by EC law and by contract law specialists, by scholars from different jurisdictions with different regulatory approaches and backgrounds. The four parts deal with (1) the economic and constitutionell foundations of the question, with (2) the framework to be found in EC treaty law, with (3) the fundamental and more general aspects relating to substantive EC contract law legislation, and with (4) the most important individual legal measures. The book covers both general contract law (with consumer contracts) and labour contract law.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part One: The Overall Structure -- Chapter 1. Party Autonomy and the Role of Information in the Internal Market – an Overview -- Part Two: Party Autonomy and Information – Normative and Theoretical Foundations -- Section 1. Constitutional Aspects of Party Autonomy and Its Limits -- Chapter 2. Constitutional Aspects of Party Autonomy and Its Limits – The Perspective of Law -- Chapter 3. Constitutional Aspects of Party Autonomy and Its Limits – The Perspective of Constitutional Economics -- Section 2. Information Problems and Market Failure: The Perspective of Economics -- Chapter 4. Consumer Information Problems – Causes and Consequences -- Chapter 5. Information in the Market Economy – Cognitive Errors and Legal Correctives -- Part Three: Supremacy of Party Autonomy and Information under the EC Treaty -- Chapter 6. Basic Freedoms – Extending Party Autonomy across Borders -- Chapter 7. Disclosure Rules (Information) as a Primary Tool in the Doctrine on Measures Having an Equivalent Effect -- Part Four: Information Rules in EC Secondary Law – Justifying Consumer and Labour Law Standards in General -- Section 1. Justifying Consumer and Labour Law -- Chapter 8. Justifying Limits to Party Autonomy in the Internal Market - Mainly Consumer Protection -- Chapter 9. Justifying Limits to Party Autonomy in the Internal Market – EC Legislation in the Field of Consumer Protection -- Chapter 10. A Comment on Party Autonomy and Consumer Regulation in the European Community – A Plea for Consistency -- Chapter 11. Justifying European Employment Law -- Chapter 12. Justifying European Employment Law – Comments -- Section 2. Information as an Instrument for Party Autonomy -- Chapter 13. Disclosure Rules as a Primary Tool for Fostering Party Autonomy -- Chapter 14. Disclosure Rules as a Primary Tool for Fostering Party Autonomy – Observations from a Functional and Comparative Legal Perspective -- Chapter 15. Information Intermediaries and Party Autonomy – The Example of Securities and Insurance Markets -- Part Five: Party Autonomy and Information Rules in Specific Areas of EC Private Law Legislation -- Chapter 16. Party Autonomy and Information in the Unfair Contract Terms Directive -- Chapter 17. Contractual Rules Concerning the Marketing of Goods and Services – Requirements of Form and Content versus Private Autonomy -- Chapter 18. Party Autonomy and Information in the Sales Directive -- Chapter 19. The Written Statement Directive – Social Norms, Information, and the Employment Relationship -- Index