Research Catalog

Title

The European contracts convention : the Rome Convention on the Choice of Law for Contracts / by Richard Plender.

Author

Plender, Richard

Publication

London : Sweet & Maxwell, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

Wilderspin, Michael.

Description

liv, 407 p.; 26 cm.

Uniform Title

Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (1980)

Subject

• Europäische Gemeinschaften
• Convention on the Law Applicable to Contractual Obligations (1980)
• Conflict of laws > Contracts > European Union countries
• Conflict of laws > Sales > European Union countries
• Contracts > European Union countries
• Sales > European Union countries

Genre/Form

• Treaties
• Traités.
• Übereinkommen (1980)

Note

• Includes text of the Convention.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-397) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. 1. The character of the convention -- Context and origins -- Interpretation -- pt. 2. The scope of the convention -- Matters to which the convention applies -- Excluded matters -- pt. 3. Basic principles -- Freedom of choice -- Closest Connections -- pt. 4. Particular contracts -- Consumer contracts -- Employment contracts -- Mandatory rules and ordre public -- pt. 5. The effect of the applicable law -- Validity and proof -- Socpe, assignment and subrogation -- pt. 6. Final provisions -- Supervening events -- Temporal application and review -- The future of the Rome convention in the light of the Amsterdam Treaty -- Annexes: (I) The Contracts (Applicable law) Act 1990 -- (II) Convention on the law applcable to contractual obligations (80/94/EEC) -- (III) Joint Declaration -- (IV) Report on the convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations -- (V) First protocol -- (VI) Joint declarations -- (VII) Second protocol -- (VIII) Report on the protocol on the interpretation of the law applicable to contractual obligations -- (IX) Commission opinion concerning the draft convention on the law applicable to contractual obligations -- (X) Bibliography.

ISBN

042173860X

OCLC

59511881

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library