Towards a Chinese civil code : : comparative and historical perspectives / / edited by Lei Chen, C.H. (Remco) van Rhee.

Currently, China is drafting its new Civil Code. Against this background, the Chinese legal community has shown a growing interest in various legal and legislative ideas from around the world. Within this context, the present book aims at providing the necessary historical and comparative legal pers...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Chinese and Comparative Law Series 1.
Physical Description:1 online resource (576 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Lei Chen and C.H. (Remco) van Rhee
  • The Systematization of the Chinese Civil Code / Liming Wang
  • From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker / Zhenbao Jin
  • Factors Ensuring the Success or Failure of Draft Codifications / Dirk Heirbaut
  • 100 Years of Chinese Property Law / Lei Chen
  • Restructuring Modern Property Law on a Theoretical Basis / Weiguo Wang
  • Can European Property Law be Codified? / Sjef van Erp
  • A Comparative Assessment of the Provisions of the New Chinese Property Code on Condominiums / Cornelius G. van der Merwe
  • Conceptualizing the Chinese Trust / Kenneth G.C. Reid
  • A Snapshot of Chinese Contract Law from an Historical and Comparative Perspective / Shiyuan Han
  • Codification in Europe and China: What Makes Contract Law Special? / Jan M. Smits
  • Service Contracts in Chinese Contract Law / Knut B. Pißler
  • Third Party Rights in Contract / Hector L. MacQueen
  • The Bases of Liability in Chinese Tort Liability Law / Yan Zhu
  • A Common Law-like Civil Law and a Public Face for Private Law / Jacques deLisle
  • Uncertain Causes / Ken Oliphant
  • Chinese Medical Negligence Law / Xiju Zhao
  • The Great Spill in the Gulf … and a Sea of Pure Economic Loss / Vernon V. Palmer
  • The Position of Judges in Civil Litigation in Transitional China / Yulin Fu and Zhixun Cao
  • The Influence of the 1895 Austrian ZPO in the Netherlands / C.H. (Remco) van Rhee
  • Judicial Case Management in France / Loïc Cadiet.