Comparative contract law : cases, materials and exercises
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Comparative contract law : cases, materials and exercises
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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Includes bibliographies and index
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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.
Table of Contents
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).
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