Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law

This is the third edition of the widely acclaimed and successful casebook on contract in the Ius Commune series, developed to be used throughout Europe and beyond by anyone who teaches, learns or practises law with a comparative or European perspective. The book contains leading cases, legislation and other materials from English, French and German law as the main representatives of the legal traditions within Europe, as well as EU legislation and case law and extracts from the Principles of European Contract Law. Comparisons are also made to other international restatements such as the Vienna Sales Convention, the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Draft Common Frame of Reference and so on. Materials are chosen and ordered so as to foster comparative study, complemented with annotations and comparative overviews prepared by a multinational team.The third edition includes many new developments at the EU level (including the ill-fated proposal for a Common European Sales Law and further developments linked to the digital single market) and in national laws, in particular the major reform of the French Code civil in 2016 and 2018, the UK''s Consumer Rights Act 2015 and new cases.The principal subjects covered in this book include:An overview of EU legislation and of soft law principles, and their interrelation withnational lawThe distinctions between contract and property, tort and restitutionFormation and pre-contractual liabilityValidity, including duties of disclosureInterpretation and contents; performance and non-performanceRemediesSupervening eventsThird parties.>

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• Authors: Hugh Beale, Hugh Fauvarque-Cosson Beale, Professor Hugh Beale, Professor Hugh Fauvarque-Cosson Beale, Beale Hugh, Benedicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Rutgers, Jacobien Rutgers, Rutgers Jacobien, Professor Stefan (Max Planck Institute for European Legal History) Vogenauer, Stefan Vogenauer
• Assisted by: Hugh Beale (Editor), Benedicte Fauvarque-Cosson (Editor), Jacobien Rutgers (Editor), Stefan Vogenauer (Editor)
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781509912575
• ISBN: 978-1-5099-1257-5
• No. of pages: 1520
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 242 mm x 50 mm
• Series: Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe; Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Mercantile and commercial law; LAW / Comparative, LAW / Contracts, contract law, comparative law