Themes in Comparative Law

In Honour of Bernard Rudden
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-925856-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 314 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 632 g

Compiled in honour of Bernard Rudden, this is a book of essays in comparative law centering on the contribution which comparative analysis can make to the core subjects of private law, namely property and obligations. The essays are contributed by leading academics from all over the world, all of whom owe an intellectual debt to the honorand.

Compiled in honour of Bernard Rudden, this is a book of essays in comparative law centering on the contribution which comparative analysis can make to the core subjects of private law, namely property and obligations. The essays are contributed by leading academics from all over the world, all of whom owe an intellectual debt to the honorand.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Birks, Peter

Pretto, Arianna

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Part I: Fundamentals and Method

- 1: Hans Baade: Stare Decisis in Civil-Law Countries: The Last Bastion

- 2: Pierre Legrand: Alterity: About Rules, For Example

- 3: Geoffrey Samuel: Comparative Law and the Legal Mind

- Part II: Property Theory

- 4: Jim Harris: Property - Rights in Rem or Wealth?

- 5: Arianna Pretto: Primary Rights and Rights in Rem

- Part III: Property Specifics

- 6: John Bell: Property and Legal Culture in France

- 7: Roy Goode: Are Intangible Assets Fungible?

- 8: James Gordley: The Origin of Riparian Rights

- 9: Michele Graziadei: Tuttifrutti

- Part IV: Obligations

- 10: Peter Birks: Comparative Unjust Enrichment

- 11: John Cartwright: Defects of Consent and Security of Contract: French and English Law Compared

- 12: Mark Freedland: Ius cogens, ius dispositivum and the Law of Personal Work Contracts

- Part V: Form and Formality

- 13: Gerhard Dannemann: Formation of Contracts on the Internet

- 14: Simon Whittaker: The Reformulation of Contractual Formality

- Part VI: Reform

- 15: Xavier Blanc-Jouvan: Les Limites d'un Droit Europeen du Travail

- 16: Ugo Mattei: Should Europe Codify Trust?

- 17: Vladislav Moudrykh: Insurance Law in Post-Soviet Russia

- 18: Reinhard Zimmermann: Modernising the German Law of Obligations

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Birks is Regius Professor of Civil Law at All Souls College, Oxford

Arrianna Pretto, is Fellow of Brasenose College