Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law

Third Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-5099-1257-5
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 1520 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1878 g

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 with
national law
The distinctions between contract and property, tort and restitution
Formation and pre-contractual liability
Validity, including duties of disclosure
Interpretation and contents; performance and non-performance
Remedies
Supervening events
Third parties.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beale, Hugh

Fauvarque-Cosson, Bénédicte

Rutgers, Jacobien

Vogenauer, Stefan

Droshout, Dimitri

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Westeuropa, Südeuropa
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Rechtswissenschaften Bürgerliches Recht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART 1
INTRODUCTION
1. GENERAL TRENDS IN MODERN CONTRACT LAW

2. EUROPEAN UNION LAW ON CONTRACTS

3. PRINCIPLES, SOFT LAW AND LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS IN EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW

4. NATIONAL CONTRACT LAWS IN A EUROPEAN CONTEXT

5. NOTIONS OF CONTRACT

6. CONTRACT AND ADJOINING AREAS

7. CATEGORISATION OF CONTRACTS ACCORDING TO PARTIES

PART 2
FORMATION
8. OFFER AND ACCEPTANCE

9. SUFFICIENCY OF AGREEMENT

10. INTENTION TO CREATE LEGAL RELATIONS

11. CAUSE AND CONSIDERATION

12. FORMAL REQUIREMENTS

13. PRECONTRACTUAL NEGOTIATIONS

PART 3
FRAUD, ABUSE, IMMORALITY
14. FRAUD, MISTAKE AND MISREPRESENTATION

15. THREATS

16. ABUSE OF CIRCUMSTANCES

17. IMMORAL AND ILLEGAL CONTRACTS

PART 4
CONTENT OF CONTRACTS
18. INTERPRETATION

19. THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES: SALES AND SERVICES CONTRACTS

20. SUPPLEMENTATION AND IMPLICATION OF TERMS

21. UNFAIR CLAUSES
PART 5
REMEDIES FOR NON-PERFORMANCE
22. THE RANGE OF REMEDIES FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT

23. SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE

24. WITHHOLDING PERFORMANCE

25. TERMINATION

26. DAMAGES

27. REMEDIES FOR NON-CONFORMING GOODS AND SERVICES

PART 6
SUPERVENING EVENTS
28. IMPOSSIBILITY OF PERFORMANCE

29. HARDSHIP, IMPRÉVISION

30. CLAUSES DEALING WITH SUPERVENING EVENTS

PART 7
THIRD PARTY CONSEQUENCES
31. CONTRACTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF THIRD PARTIES

32. AGENCY

33. ASSIGNMENT

Über Autor(innen)

Beale, Hugh
Hugh Beale is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He is a former Law Commissioner for England and Wales.

Vogenauer, Stefan
Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History

Fauvarque-Cosson, Bénédicte
Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson is Agrégée des Facultés de droit and Conseillère d'Etat.

Rutgers, Jacobien
Jacobien Rutgers is Professor of European Private Law at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam.

Hugh Beale is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Warwick, Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, and Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford. He is a former Law Commissioner for England and Wales.
Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson is Agrégée des Facultés de droit and Conseillère d'Etat.

Jacobien Rutgers is Professor of European Private Law at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam.
Stefan Vogenauer is Director at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt.