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The Architecture of European Codes and Contract Law, PDF eBook

The Architecture of European Codes and Contract Law PDF

Edited by Stefan Grundmann, Martin Schauer

Part of the Private Law European Context Set series

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The nineteen outstanding contributors to this deeply insightful book concur in envisioning a fundamentally new systematic concept of contract law that, while preserving the essential architecture of the existing European codes, would nonetheless find cogent ways to integrate such modern developments as mass transactions, chains and networks of contracts, regulation of markets and contracts to protect consumers, and service and long-term contracts into an optional European code.

The book is organised along three major avenues:

the systematic arrangement of a contract law code - how it deals with core questions of formation and performance or breach of contract, such as mistake and misrepresentation, standard contract terms, and remedies in the case of breach of contract;

the apparent necessity to merge consumer contract law (i.e. such issues as product safety and liability, warranties, and consumer debt and insolvency) with traditional core contract law concepts; and

the importance to substantive contract law of the pre-contractual phase, in which information duties are becoming steadily more paramount.

The authors perspectives cover a wide range of jurisdictions, including new EU Member States. The books commitment to an integration of comparative law, EC law, and the debate on European codification offers practitioners and academics fertile ground for the development of a new model of contract law that is more than a common denominator of what has been in force so far. This model may serve as a basis for Europe-wide and perhaps even worldwide discussion.

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