Comparative Contract Law
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Comparative Contract Law is the fourth edition of a widely acclaimed and well-established textbook. It brings together extracts from legislation and court practice in case studies and promotes a ‘learning-by-doing’ approach to comparative methodology, enabling students to experience comparative law in action. The book acts as a practical guide for those seeking to familiarise themselves with real-world materials and to better understand the diverse approaches to modern contract law.
Key Features: ● A comparative perspective on highly topical, real-life issues of contract law ● Materials from some 30 jurisdictions in both their original languages and high quality translations ● Students are able to solve scenarios according to the laws of different jurisdictions, to compare and evaluate the solutions and approaches they identify, and to better understand the diverse approaches to modern contract law ● NEW! Full integration of the new Belgian Civil Code and information on small and medium-sized jurisdictions further diversified.
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- Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.
- 9781035341429
- 9781035341412
- Page Fidelity (PDF)
- 4
- Thomas Kadner Graziano
- English
- 05/2025
- 100
- 2
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Kaflar
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- About the author
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Translations
- Abbreviations
- Table of provisions of codes, statutes, and principles of law reproduced
- Part A Introduction
- Chapter 1: Contract law in the 21st century – the purpose of this book
- Chapter 2: A case-oriented and multilateral approach to the teaching and studying of comparative law
- Chapter 3: Is it legitimate and beneficial for judges to compare?1
- Part B: Case Studies
- I Formation of contracts
- Case study 1: Offer or invitation to treat (invitatio ad offerendum)?
- Case study 2: Conditions for the formation of a contract – agreement or more? (cause and considera
- Case study 3: Obligation to maintain an offer or freedom to revoke it?
- Case study 4: Modification of contracts – the free will of the parties or limits on the freedom to
- Case study 5: The battle of forms
- II Performance of contracts
- Case study 6: A right to performance of the contract or only a right to damages?
- Case study 7: Damages and the role of fault in the event of delivery of goods not in conformity with
- Case study 8: Contractual penalty clauses
- Case study 9: Termination or alteration of a contract in the event of a fundamental change of circum
- Case study 10: Contracts and the transfer of ownership in movable property
- III The law applicable to cross-border contracts and the future of European contract law
- Case study 11: The law applicable to cross-border contracts (introduction)
- Case study 12: Do common markets need common contract law rules? – The future of European contract
- Index