Comparative Contract Law: Cases, Materials and Exercises

2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-57979-8
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Book, Format (B × H): 172 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 935 g

A guide to the principles of European private law enhanced by a practical approach designed to promote learning by doing. Students are introduced to comparative methodology by working through a series of scenarios to be solved, rigorously underpinned with helpful references to relevant cases and materials, in their original language.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kadner Graziano, Thomas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I.- Introduction.- Introduction to the Comparative Methodology: Case-studies.- Principles of Contract Law: The Needs to Which They Respond and the Purposes for Which They Are Designed.- The Principles of European Contract Law.- The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts.- PART II: CASES.- Formation of Contracts.- Case I: Offer or Invitation to Treat (Invitatio ad Offerendum)?.- Case II: Conditions for the Formation of a Contract – Agreement or More? (Cause and Consideration).- Case III: Obligation to Maintain an Offer or Freedom to Revoke an Offer?.- Case IV: Modification of Contracts – The Free Will of the Parties or Limits on the Freedom to Contract ('Consideration' Revisited).- Performance of Contracts.- Case V: Right to Receive Performance of a Contract or Just a Right to Receive Damages?.- Case VI: Damages and the Role of the Fault of the Seller in the Event of Delivery of Goods not in Conformity With the Contract.- Case VII: Change of Circumstances.- Case VIII: Contracts and the Transfer of Ownership of Property in European Private Law.- The Law Applicable to Cross-Border Contracts and the Future of European Contract Law.- Case IX: The Law Applicable to Cross-border Contracts (Introduction).- Case X: The Future of European Contract Law.- Table of Laws, Principles, Draft Principles (By Country).

Über Autor(innen)

THOMAS KADNER GRAZIANO is Professor in the Department of International Private Law at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. He has taught in 2007/08 as Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK, and is a Fellow of the European Centre of Tort and Insurance Law (ECTIL) in Vienna. His research interests include European and international private law, comparative law, German, US and English law, civil process, and environmental law.