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Zusatztext …a highly recommendable and differentiated piece of reading…This book contains a wealth of information…an important watershed in the debate on a contract law for Europe. Informationen zum Autor Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History Stephen Weatherill is the Jacques Delors Professor of European Law at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Somerville College.Photo courtesy of Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Klappentext A central aspect of this book is the report of a remarkable survey carried out by the Oxford Institute for 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 survey is embedded in a range of original and up-to-date essays by leading European contract scholars. Zusammenfassung This book is based on a remarkable survey on the views of European businesses about the advantages and disadvantages of further harmonisation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Spectre of a European Contract LawSTEFAN VOGENAUER2. Harmonisation of European Contract Law: The State We Are InEWAN McKENDRICK3. English Law Reform and the Impact of European Private LawHUGH BEALE4. The Ideal of Codification and the Dynamics of Europeanisation: The Dutch ExperienceMARTIJN W HESSELINK5. Contract Law Reform: The German ExperienceREINHARD ZIMMERMANN6. Constitutional Issues—How Much is Best Left Unsaid?STEPHEN WEATHERILL7. The European Community’s Competence to Pursue the Harmonisation of Contract Law—an Empirical Contribution to the DebateSTEFAN VOGENAUER & STEPHEN WEATHERILL8. Harmonisation of and Codification in European Contract LawGUIDO ALPA9. Contracts and European Consumer Law: an OFT PerspectiveSIR JOHN VICKERS10. The Commission’s Communications and Standard Contract TermsULF BERNITZ11. Non-Legislative Harmonisation: Protection from Unfair SuretyshipsAURELIA COLOMBI CIACCHI12. Harmonisation of European Insurance Contract LawDANIELA WEBER-REY13. European Contract Law – What Does It Mean and What Does It Not Mean?DIRK STAUDENMAYER14. Harmonisation of European Contract Law—the United Kingdom Government’s ThinkingBARONESS ASHTON OF UPHOLLAND15. Concluding ObservationsDAVID EDWARD...
