New Features in Contract Law / / Reiner Schulze.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Schulze, Reiner,
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, John N.,; Beale, Hugh,; Cordero Moss, Giuditta,; Dauner-Lieb, Barbara,; Graziadei, Michele,; Gutmann, Thomas,; Howells, Geraint,; James, Simon,; Lagarde, Paul,; Lehmann, Matthias,; Møgelvang-Hansen, Peter,; Patti, Salvatore,; Pfeiffer, Thomas,; Reitz, John C.,; Rochfeld, Judith,; Schmidt-Kessel, Martin,; Schulze, Reiner,; Somma, Alessandro,; Troiano, Stefano,; Twigg-Flesner, Christian,; Vaquer, Antoni,; Zoll, Fryderyk,
• Place / Publishing House: Munich : : Otto Schmidt/De Gruyter european law pub, , [2009]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (439 p.)

Economic change, globalisation and harmonisation of European Law have brought new challenges to contract law. The contributions in this Volume by prominent legal scholars deal with current trends and perspectives in European and International Contract Law and their impact on the various domestic legal systems. The Compendium provides an analysis of new developments in formation of contract, performance and remedies, consumer contract law and the particularly controversial area of anti-discrimination law. Experts in their field examine the underlying legal principles and problems arising in legal practice in Common Law and Civil Law.The essays written in English, German and French are the product of a series of lectures held in 2006 at the Centre for European Private Law (CEP) at the University of Münster, Germany. The contributing authors are: John Adams, Hugh Beale, Giuditta Cordero-Moss, Barbara Dauner-Lieb, Michele Graziadei, Thomas Gutmann, Geraint Howells, Simon James, Paul Lagarde, Matthias Lehmann, Peter Møgelvang-Hansen, Salvatore Patti, Thomas Pfeiffer, John C. Reitz, Judith Rochfeld, Martin Schmidt-Kessel, Jürgen Schmidt-Räntsch, Alessandro Somma, Stefano Troiano, Christian Twigg-Flesner, Antoni Vaquer Aloy and Fryderyk Zoll.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- The New Challenges in Contract Law -- Part I. Freedom of Contract and Protection of Weaker Parties -- Der Schutz der schwächeren Vertragspartei – rechtshistorische und rechtspolitische Aspekte -- Zwang und Ausbeutung beim Vertragsschluss -- Diskriminierungsschutz und Vertragsrecht – Entwicklungstendenzen im Rechtsvergleich -- Das Antidiskriminierungsrecht in der Acquis-Gruppe und die fehlende Umsetzung von Antidiskriminierungsrichtlinien in das polnische Zivilrecht -- A Special Private Law for B2C? Silver Bullet or Blind Alley? -- Consumer Concepts for a European Code? -- Part II. Preparation and Formation of the Contract -- The Function of Letters of Intent and their Recognition in Modern Legal Systems -- New Mechanisms for Concluding Contracts -- The Binding Effects of Advertising -- Part III. Performance and Remedies -- Remedies for Breach of Contract in European Private Law – Principles of European Contract Law, Acquis Communautaire and Common und Frame of Reference -- La proposition de réforme des sanctions de l’inexécution du contrat dans l’Avant-projet de réforme du Code civil français et l’influence européenne -- Third Party Questions: The Privity Problem -- Part IV. Legal Pluralism and International Challenges -- Political Economy and Contract Law -- Remarques sur la proposition de règlement de la Commission européenne sur la loi applicable aux obligations contractuelles (Rome I) -- Time to Slice and Dice in the Contractual Kitchen? -- Variations on the Concept of Contract in a European Perspective: Some Unresolved Issues -- Standard terms in International Commercial Law – the example of documentary credits -- Part V. National Experience and Supranational Law -- The Common Frame of Reference in general – a resumé of the current status -- Die Terminologie des italienischen Zivilgesetzbuches auf dem Gebiet der allgemeinen Vertragsbedingungen: Probleme der Übersetzung -- Das Konzept der „Reasonableness“ als Mittel zur Harmonisierung des Europäischen Vertragsrechts: Probleme und Perspektiven aus der Sicht des italienischen Rechtssystems -- Traces of Paulian Action in Community Law