The Harmonisation of European Contract Law (eBook, PDF)

Implications for European Private Laws, Business and Legal Practice
Redaktion: Vogenauer, Stefan; Weatherill, Stephen

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

After an extended period in which the European Community has merely nibbled at the edges of national contract law, the bite of a 'European contract law' has lately become more pronounced. Many areas of law, from competition and consumer law to gender equality law, are now the subject of determined efforts at harmonisation, though they are perhaps often seen as peripheral to mainstream commercial contract law. Despite continuing doubts about the constitutional competence of the Commission to embark on further harmonisation in this area, European contract law is now taking shape with the Commission prompting a debate about what it might attempt.

A central aspect of this book is the report of a remarkable survey carried out by the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law in collaboration with Clifford Chance, which sought the views of European businesses about the advantages and disadvantages of further harmonisation. The final report of this survey brings much needed empirical data to a debate that has thus far lacked clear evidence of this sort. The survey is embedded in a range of original and up-to-date essays by leading European contract scholars reviewing recent developments, questioning progress so far and suggesting areas where further analysis and research will be required

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847311276
• Artikelnr.: 52998453

Autorenporträt

Stefan Vogenauer is Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Brasenose College and Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law. Stephen Weatherill is Jacques Delors Professor of European Law at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of Somerville College and a Deputy Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Spectre of a European Contract Law STEFAN VOGENAUER 2. Harmonisation
of European Contract Law: The State We Are In EWAN McKENDRICK 3. English
Law Reform and the Impact of European Private Law HUGH BEALE 4. The Ideal
of Codification and the Dynamics of Europeanisation: The Dutch Experience
MARTIJN W HESSELINK 5. Contract Law Reform: The German Experience REINHARD
ZIMMERMANN 6. Constitutional Issues-How Much is Best Left Unsaid? STEPHEN
WEATHERILL 7. The European Community's Competence to Pursue the
Harmonisation of Contract Law-an Empirical Contribution to the Debate
STEFAN VOGENAUER & STEPHEN WEATHERILL 8. Harmonisation of and Codification
in European Contract Law GUIDO ALPA 9. Contracts and European Consumer Law:
an OFT Perspective SIR JOHN VICKERS 10. The Commission's Communications and
Standard Contract Terms ULF BERNITZ 11. Non-Legislative Harmonisation:
Protection from Unfair Suretyships AURELIA COLOMBI CIACCHI 12.
Harmonisation of European Insurance Contract Law DANIELA WEBER-REY 13.
European Contract Law - What Does It Mean and What Does It Not Mean? DIRK
STAUDENMAYER 14. Harmonisation of European Contract Law-the United Kingdom
Government's Thinking BARONESS ASHTON OF UPHOLLAND 15. Concluding
Observations DAVID EDWARD