Contract Law in Changing Times (eBook, ePUB)

Asian Perspectives on Pacta Sunt Servanda
Redaktion: Witzleb, Normann

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays provides a rich and contemporary discussion of the principle of pacta sunt servanda. This principle, which requires that valid agreements are to be honoured, is a cornerstone of contract law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000821468
• Artikelnr.: 66677950

Autorenporträt

Normann Witzleb is an associate professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law, where he chairs the Obligations Lab Asia in the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law. He is also an adjunct associate professor at Monash University Australia, Faculty of Law. Professor Witzleb has published widely on private law, in particular torts and remedies, as well as on privacy and data protection law.

Inhaltsangabe

Part A. Pacta sunt servanda in changing times
1 Pacta sunt servanda, the common law, and Hong Kong
Stephen Hall
2 Exceptions to pacta sunt servanda in the Chinese Civil Code
Siyi Lin
3 In a Bubble by the Sea: COVID-19, Time and Contract Law in the Macau
S.A.R.
Célia F. Matias and Monica Chan
4 Contracts in the time of COVID-19: common law and statutory solutions in
Singapore
Wayne Courtney
5 The principle of pacta sunt servanda and its exceptions under Japanese
contract law
Tomohiro Yoshimasa
6 Change of circumstances in Korean contract law: An exception to pacta
sunt servanda
Boeun Chang
Part B. Pacta sunt servanda in specific contexts
7 The property management service contract with Chinese characteristics: An
exception to pacta sunt servanda?
Jianbo Lou and Yimeng Ye
8 Pacta sunt servanda in the age of cryptocurrency: The case of China
Chao Xi
9 Post-employment non-compete agreements under the Taiwan Labour Standards
Act and pacta sunt servanda
Yalun Yen
10 Pacta sunt servanda and the consumer's right of withdrawal
Geraint Howells
11 Contract enforcement during the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for the
coming tsunami
Kingsley Ong
Part C. Pacta sunt servanda in international law
12 Invoking COVID-19 to suspend or terminate the operation of a treaty
Hanh Hong Pham and Huong Thi Thu Phung
13 Treaties and pacta sunt servanda: A shared concept for the PRC?
Noble Po-kan Lo
14 Pacta sunt servanda: Comfort letters in an age of instability and
strategic rivalry
Joel Slawotsky
Part D. Conclusion
15 Pacta sunt servanda - a maxim and its exceptions in comparative
perspective
Normann Witzleb