Contract law in changing times : Asian perspectives on pacta sunt servanda
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Contract law in changing times : Asian perspectives on pacta sunt servanda
(Markets and the law / series editor, Geraint Howells)
Routledge, 2023
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays provides a rich and contemporary discussion of the principle of pacta sunt servanda. This principle, which requires that valid agreements are to be honoured, is a cornerstone of contract law. Focusing on contributions from Asia, this book shows that, despite its natural and universal appeal, the pacta sunt servanda principle is neither absolute nor immutable. Exceptions to the binding force of contract must be available in limited circumstances to avoid hardship and unfairness.
This book offers readers new comparative perspectives on the appropriate balance between contractual certainty and flexibility in an era of social instability. Expert authors, mostly from East and Southeast Asia, explore when their domestic legal systems allow exceptions from the binding force of contracts. Doctrines discussed include impossibility, frustration, change of circumstance, force majeure, illegality as well as rights of withdrawal. Other chapters consider the importance of the pacta principle in international law. The challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic feature strongly in the majority of contributions.
Table of Contents
Part A. Pacta sunt servanda in changing times
1 Pacta sunt servanda, the common law, and Hong Kong
Stephen Hall
2 Exceptions to pacta sunt servanda in the Chinese Civil Code
Siyi Lin
3 In a Bubble by the Sea: COVID-19, Time and Contract Law in the Macau S.A.R.
Celia F. Matias and Monica Chan
4 Contracts in the time of COVID-19: common law and statutory solutions in Singapore
Wayne Courtney
5 The principle of pacta sunt servanda and its exceptions under Japanese contract law
Tomohiro Yoshimasa
6 Change of circumstances in Korean contract law: An exception to pacta sunt servanda
Boeun Chang
Part B. Pacta sunt servanda in specific contexts
7 The property management service contract with Chinese characteristics: An exception to pacta sunt servanda?
Jianbo Lou and Yimeng Ye
8 Pacta sunt servanda in the age of cryptocurrency: The case of China
Chao Xi
9 Post-employment non-compete agreements under the Taiwan Labour Standards Act and pacta sunt servanda
Yalun Yen
10 Pacta sunt servanda and the consumer's right of withdrawal
Geraint Howells
11 Contract enforcement during the Global Financial Crisis: Lessons for the coming tsunami
Kingsley Ong
Part C. Pacta sunt servanda in international law
12 Invoking COVID-19 to suspend or terminate the operation of a treaty
Hanh Hong Pham and Huong Thi Thu Phung
13 Treaties and pacta sunt servanda: A shared concept for the PRC?
Noble Po-kan Lo
14 Pacta sunt servanda: Comfort letters in an age of instability and strategic rivalry
Joel Slawotsky
Part D. Conclusion
15 Pacta sunt servanda - a maxim and its exceptions in comparative perspective
Normann Witzleb
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