Product Description: Mass production and changes in distribution chains have severely restricted the power of the seller and the buyer to use their own skill and judgement. As a result, 'product liability' has developed into a distinct area of legal regulation...read more

Product Description: This book starts by surveying the use or neglect of good faith in European contract law and traces its historical origins. Its central part takes thirty hypothetical situations that have attracted the application of good faith and analyzes them according to fifteen national legal systems...read more

Product Description: The 2005 Avant-projet de r���©forme du droit des obligations et de la prescription - also dubbed the Avant-projet Catala - suggests the most far-reaching reform of the French Civil Code since it came into force in 1804. It reviews central aspects of contract law, the law of delict, and the law of unjustified enrichment...read more

Product Description: The EU is active in attempting to harmonize the law of product liability and the sale of goods to consumers, with the aim of promoting fair competition, aiding the internal market, and protecting consumers. But how do the resulting laws relate to existing national laws of liability and compensation? This comparative work considers the French and English laws governing all those who may be liable for products: their producers, their suppliers, their users, and their regulators...read more