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Title

The need for a European contract law : empirical and legal perspectives / edited by Jan Smits.

Publication

Groningen : Europa Law Pub., 2005.

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Additional Authors

Smits, J. M. (Jan Martien)

Description

xii, 188 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book addresses an often neglected question in the field of European Private Law: to what extent is there a need for unification of contract law in Europe? This question is not only important in view of the recent Communications on European contract law that were issued by the European Commission. It also provokes the pertinent issue whether diversity of (contract) law is actually a barrier to the proper functioning of the European internal market. In order to answer these questions, this book adopts an interdisciplinary approach: not only law, but also insights from (behavioural) economics and psychology are taken into account." --Book Jacket.

Subject

• Contracts > European Union countries
• Contracts > Economic aspects > European Union countries
• Conflict of laws > Contracts > European Union countries
• Law > European Union countries > International unification

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The virtues of diversity in European private law / Gerhard Wagner -- Economic analysis of cross-border legal uncertainty : the example of the European Union / Helmut Wagner -- Law, economics and uniform contract law : a sceptical view / Jaap Hage -- Uniformity of European contract law : an economic study between logic and fact / Heico Kerkmeester -- The psychology of conflict of laws / Jeffrey J. Rachlinski -- The ethical pluralism of late modern Europe and codification of European contract law / Thomas Wilhelmsson -- Diversity of contract law and the European internal market / Jan M. Smits.

ISBN

9076871353

OCLC

58467483

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library