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European contract law — the European Parliament’s prospective

ERA Forum, 2005
On 23 February 2006, the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament adopted a Report on European contract law and the revision of the acquis: the way forward (2005/2022(INI), A6-0055/2006 of 2 March 2006). The report is a response to the Commission’s Action Plan on Contract Law (COM (2003) 68), its communication of 11 October 2004 (COM (2004 ...
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Efficiency and Justice in European Contract Law

European Review of Private Law, 2008
Abstract: In the last century, refl ections on contract law have been almost entirely dominated by classical contract theory and laissez–faire ideology, while open considerations of effi ciency and justice have played a marginal role. The rise of European contract law has gradually led to the abandonment of traditional arguments typical of national ...
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European Contract Law

2017
This new edition of European Contract Law examines the contract rules of several different European jurisdictions, including the most important civilian systems and English common law, while attempting to articulate general principles which are common in all of them.
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The Principle of Proportionality and European Contract Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The paper investigates the role of the principle of proportionality within contract law, in balancing the rights and obligations of the contracting parties. It illustrates that the principle of proportionality is one of the general principles which govern contractual relations, and as such it is an underlying principle of more specific rules of EU ...
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Towards a European Law of Service Contracts

European Review of Private Law, 2001
For a number of decades now, services have been the motor on which modern economies run. In societies such as ours, new services and therefore new contracts emerge almost daily. However, at present neither at a national level nor at the level of the European Union, a coherent legal framework exists on the basis of which service contracts may be ...
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The CISG, European Contract Law and the Development of a World Contract Law

American Journal of Comparative Law, 2008
The United Nations Convention on Contracts for the Interna tional Sale of Goods (CISG), though promulgated more than a quarter of a century ago in an entirely different socio-economic and political environment, remains a landmark in the international unification process.
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Commentaries on European Contract Laws

2018
The book provides rule-by-rule commentaries on European contract law (general contract law, consumer contract law, the law of sale and related services), dealing with its modern manifestations as well as its historical and comparative foundations. After the collapse of the European Commission's plans to codify European contract law it is timely to ...
Nils Jansen, Reinhard Zimmermann
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European Contract Law: Sublease

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
The model rules on sublease set out in the Draft Common Frame of Reference for a European Private Law (DCFR) are analysed and compared to the existing legal norms provided in the laws of various European countries, including Croatia. Noting that in several European jurisdictions there are at least two contractual types that correspond to what is ...
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The Structure of European Contract Law

European Review of Private Law, 2001
The internal market and the fundamental freedoms aim at extending party autonomy across borders. The instrument of party autonomy is the contract. The basic concepts and the legal measures on which EC contract law is based are recent. However, from both a conceptual and an empirical point of view, EC contract law has become indispensable.
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Harmonisation of European Contract Law

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
This Chapter argues that the current harmonisation of European contract law will eventually fail. Supporters of the harmonisation suggest that the divergence in national contract laws not only generates unnecessary costs for cross-border trade, but also undermines fair competition in the European market.
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