Recovery of Non-Pecuniary Loss in European Contract Law

A pioneering work capturing the recent rise of moral damages in modern European contract law.

List of contents

Part I. The Rise of Non-Pecuniary Damage: In European Law: 1. Trapped in categories: on the history of compensation for immaterial damages in European contract law Nils Jansen; 2. Moral damages in the age of codification Vernon Valentine Palmer; 3. The French awakening in the nineteenth century Vernon Valentine Palmer; 4. English law: the search for non-pecuniary damages in an 'historical system' Vernon Valentine Palmer; Part II. The Recovery of Non-Pecuniary Loss: In Modern Contract Law: 5. European contractual regimes: the contemporary approaches Vernon Valentine Palmer; 6. Questionnaire, national reports and commentary: the comparative evidence; 7. Conclusions and observations Vernon Valentine Palmer.

About the author

Vernon Valentine Palmer is Thomas Pickles Professor of Law at Tulane University and is Co-Director of the Eason-Weinmann Center of Comparative Law.

Summary

The first comprehensive study on the rise of moral damages in modern European contract law through a historical and comparative analysis. Unique features include the first classification scheme of the systems into liberal, moderate and conservative regimes, taxonomy of non-pecuniary loss drawn from a European-wide jurisprudence and a comprehensive bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Vernon V. Palmer, Vernon V. (Tulane University Palmer
• Assisted by: Palmer Vernon V. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9781107098626
• ISBN: 978-1-107-09862-6
• No. of pages: 534
• Series: The Common Core of European Private Law; The Common Core of European Private Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Law, LAW / Civil Law, contract law, EU (European Union), Private / Civil law: general works