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Title

New perspectives for a common law of Europe = Nouvelles perspectives d'un droit commun de l'Europe / contributions by L. Neville Brown ... [et al.] ; ed. by Mauro Cappelletti ; with a foreword by Max Kohnstamm.

Publication

Leyden ; Boston : Sijthoff, 1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brown, Lionel Neville.
• Cappelletti, Mauro

Description

ix, 406 p.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publications of the European University Institute ; 1

Uniform Title

Publications of the European University Institute 1.

Alternative Title

Nouvelles perspectives d'un droit commun de l'Europe

Subject

• Europäische Gemeinschaften
• Law > Europe > Congresses
• Law > Europe > Codification > Congresses
• Law > International unification > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• English or French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• First session: Common law of Europe : historical foundations -- Second session: Emergence of a new common law of Europe : present components, and prospects of future developments -- Third session: Common law and civil law -- Fourth session: Unifying trends and general principles of law -- Fifth session: Applied comparative law -- Sixth session: Legislature, judiciary, and legal obsolescence -- Seventh session: Protection of human rights -- Eighth session: Public law and political institutions.
• Foreword / Max Kohnstamm, President of the European University Institute -- Introduction / Mauro Cappelletti -- European common law : historical foundations / Helmut Coing -- La communis opinio totius orbis et la réception jurisprudentielle du droit au cours des XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles dans la civil law et la common law / Gino Gorla -- Les facteurs propices à l'eclosion et au développement d'un droit commun européen / Jean Limpens -- Droit commun de l'Europe, et composantes du droit / Rodolfo Sacco -- Le droit continental, la common law et les perspectives d'un jus commune européen / René David -- Common law and civil law : imaginary and real obstacles to assimilation / Otto Kahn-Freund -- General principles of law and the English legal system / L. Neville Brown -- On the convergence (and divergence) of the civil law and the common law / John H. Merryman -- New perspectives of a common law of Europe : some practical aspects and the case for applied comparative law / J.A. Jolowicz -- Unfair contract clauses and a European uniform commercial code / Ole Lando -- Incentives, regulation and the problem of legal obsolescence / Guido Calabresi -- Legislature and judiciary : present trends / Thijmen Koopmans -- Le rôle de la convention européenne des droits de l'homme / Dimitrios J. Evrigenis -- Law, democracy, and political institutions / J.D.B. Mitchell -- Vers un droit commun européen : nouvelles perspectives en droit administratif / Jean Rivero.

ISBN

9028608680

LCCN

^^^80478233^//r85

OCLC

• 4786015
• SCSB-10176877

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library