Product Description: Among the most significant legal developments of our time is the emergence of a European private law. The European Union has enacted regulations and directives which profoundly affect the practice, teaching and study of core areas of 'classical' private law...read more

Product Description: In light of the current legal developments, it is to be assumed that the influence of EU legislation will initiate a wave of reforms regarding the law of obligations at the Member State level. How legislation of the EU affects national legal systems in the context of the reform process is of great interest, especially in due consideration of the harmonization of private law...read more

Product Description: The emergence of Common European Sales Law (CESL) as a field of enquiry has been matched by a burgeoning literature. This includes textbooks, casebooks, monographs, commentaries, and a large number of journal articles. As the field has matured, so has its elaboration and analysis by scholars, though it remains a field replete with contested viewpoints and many controversies...read more

Product Description: This collection makes a highly valuable contribution to the field of European private law, which is, last but not least, very much influenced by the presentation of the Draft Common Frame of Reference, published in October 2009. The book focuses on the current status and perspective of European private law in the areas of contract law, tort law and personal rights, unfair commercial practices, unfair competition law, property law, international private law, company law, and optional instruments...read more

Product Description: A number of key developments have taken place in European private law in 2009: the European Commission has proposed and made changes in a number of areas of consumer law, the outline edition of the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) has been published, and the second volume of the Acquis Principles (Contract II) will soon be available...read more

Product Description: English summary: The academic Draft Common Frame of Reference is at the center of lively discussions in European private law. In this volume, leading advocates of different points of view in German private law deal with fundamental issues and the main goals of this draft...read more

Product Description: This volume sets out initially to test the claim that, as combinations of Civil and Common Law influences, the mixed systems of contract law in Scotland and South Africa have anticipated the content of the Principles of European Contract Law (PECL) concluded and published in 2003 by the unofficial Commission on European Contract Law...read more

Product Description: Information requirements have become a key element of consumer policy at the European level and are also gaining increasing importance in all other areas of private law. The law stipulates that information provided should not be misleading and also involves requirements regarding the fairness and objectivity of what has been provided...read more

Product Description: English summary: The essays collected here investigate the extent to which existing EC private law, the 'Acquis Communautaire', outlines general guidelines for the future development of European contract law. The work documents the results of new research carried out by the Acquis Group...read more

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Product Description: Die Rechtsetzung der Gemeinschaft und die Rechtsprechung des EuGH haben sich gerade wahrend der letzten Jahre mehr und mehr auf das Privatrecht erstreckt. Den Herausforderungen, die sich daraus fur Praxis und Studium ergeben, tragt dieses Werk, das in der Reihe "Casebooks - Entscheidungen des EuGH" erscheint, Rechnung...read more

Product Description: Das europaische Verbraucherrecht ist zum unverzichtbaren Bestandteil juristischer Ausbildung und Praxis geworden. Das Casebook fuhrt in die grundlegende Rechtsprechung des Europaischen Gerichtshofs (EuGH) zum Verbraucherrecht ein...read more