Download or read book The European Codification Process written by Ugo Mattei and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains thoughts on the issue of Codification of European Private Law and on the present state of European Private Law by one of the protagonists of the debate that is unfolding in Europe. Taking a sometimes sharply critical view, Professor Mattei attempts to unveil what he considers biases, strategies, and ideologies that affect the European legal process. The work attempts to open a basic and genuine political debate between legal scholars, which he considers an unavoidable prerequisite of any major reform process in private law. Challenging the claim of technocratic neutrality shared by much of the most influential European legal academy, the author uses the tools of Comparative Law and Economics to set priorities on the table and to show some of the real stakes of the present process. The work explores fundamental areas of European private law, from the sources' to contracts' to trust law.
Download or read book Imperativeness in Private International Law written by Giovanni Zarra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book centres on the ways in which the concept of imperativeness has found expression in private international law (PIL) and discusses “imperative norms”, and “imperativeness” as their intrinsic quality, examining the rules or principles that protect fundamental interests and/or the values of a state so as to require their application at any cost and without exceptions. Discussing imperative norms in PIL means referring to international public policy and overriding mandatory rules: in this book the origins, content, scope and effects of both these forms of imperativeness are analyzed in depth. This is a subject deserving further study, considering that very divergent opinions are still emerging within academia and case law regarding the differences between international public policy and overriding mandatory rules as well as with regard to their way of functioning. By using an approach mainly based on an analysis of the case law of the CJEU and of the courts of the various European countries, the book delves into the origin of imperativeness since Roman law, explains how imperative norms have evolved in the different conceptions of private international law, and clarifies the foundation of the differences between international public policy and overriding mandatory rules and how these concepts are used in EU Regulations on PIL (and in the practice related to these sources of law). Finally, the work discusses the influence of EU and public international law sources on the concept of imperativeness within the legal systems of European countries and whether a minimum content of imperativeness – mainly aimed at ensuring the protection of fundamental human rights in transnational relationships – between these countries has emerged. The book will prove an essential tool for academics with an interest in the analysis of these general concepts and practitioners having to deal with the functioning of imperative norms in litigation cases and in the drafting of international contracts. Giovanni Zarra is Assistant professor of international law and private international law and transnational litigation in the Department of Law of the Federico II University of Naples.
Download or read book E U Sales Directive written by C. Massimo Bianca and published by Intersentia nv. This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European standards of interpretation (including interpretation of comparative law) and reference to the directive and to instruments of European law are now part of sound legal practice even in the most routine of domestic cases. The huge reforms in many national laws, in some countries the rewriting of their Code to reflect the Directive, is no more than good approximation. What really matters and what ultimately will be the decisive standard is the Directive. The Geneva Conventions on bills of exchange and cheques, the Vienna Convention on the International Sale of Goods and the Brussels Convention on jurisdiction and recognition of judgments were milestones. They did not, however, influence national private law in its core area as profoundly and as extensively as the EU Sales Law Directive will. This book starts off by explaining the instruments of European law and their influence on national law and lays solid foundations for a thorough transnational understanding of every single pro-vision of the directive. Also discussed are the philosophical, historical and economic foundations of the different rules, which are followed by a detailed commentary on each individual article. Contributions to this book are made by C.M. Bianca, M. Bridge, W. van Gerven, F. Gomez, S. Grundmann, E. Hondius, P. Malinvaud, A.L. Serrano, P. Sirena and S. Stijns.
Download or read book User Protection in IT Contracts A Comparative Study of the Protection of the User Against Defective Performance in Information Technology written by Clarisse Girot and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2001-03-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers the theme of the protection of the user in the field of Information Technology, and more specifically in relation to software licences, electronic information services and Internet access services. Litigation in IT usually stems from the users' feeling that their expectations have been frustrated at performance. When dealing with such cases, the courts seem to increasingly take the objective of user protection into account. How is this protection implemented? Is this trend generally desirable? Is this judicial protection excessive? What are the constraints met by IT providers that should be taken into account in litigation? How can the user's position be improved? User Protection in IT Contracts extensively presents the reasons why, and the ways in which national courts may decide a case in favour of the user. Many practical issues are considered in this respect. Which factors appear relevant to deal with liability claims in IT? Are exemption clauses always enforceable? What are the implications of information duties for IT providers? How can general conditions be safely incorporated to a contract? This book exhaustively reviews these and other issues in English, Dutch and French law.
Download or read book African Journal of International and Comparative Law written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rome I Regulation written by Franco Ferrari and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the new Rome I Regulation meet its goals - to improve the predictability of the outcome of litigation? - to bring certainty as to the law applicable and the free movement of judgments? - to designate the same national law irrespective of the country of the court in which an action is brought? The most important features of this instrument were outlined and discussed by distinguished legal experts from all over Europe and beyond at the conference "The Rome I Regulation", held in Verona on March 2009. This first book in English on the Rome I Regulation contains the papers submitted to that conference.
Download or read book Quo vadis Commercial Contract written by Mads Andenas and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings volume combines chapters derived from papers presented at the 4th and 5th Annual Conferences on the Future of the Commercial Contract in Scholarship and Law Reform. This ongoing research project brings together scholars from all over the world at an annual international conference in London. The book focusses on technology in commercial contract law as well as on sustainability in commercial contracts. The latter theme was inspired by the United Nations' climate conference that was to take place in Glasgow in the United Kingdom that same year. The book combines topical current issues in commercial contract law and practice organized in three parts. The first part contains contributions to the area of law and technology. The second part of the book expands on aspects of sustainability understood as environmental reasonableness in the context of commercial contracts. The third part includes several chapters on the topics of supervening events and contractual ethics. This book is therefore part of a coherent line of contributions to the furthering of modern contract theory. The choice of topics is closely following current issues of legal policy and contract practice.
Download or read book An International Restatement of Contract Law written by Michael Joachim Bonell and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The UNIDROIT Principles represent a totally new approach to international trade law. They are the result of years of intensive study by leading experts in the field of contract and international trade law from all the major legal and socio-economic systems of the world. They consist of a Preamble and 119 articles divided into seven chapters (General Provisions; Formation; Validity; Interpretation; Content; Performance; and Non-Performance). The chapter on performance contains a special section on hardship, while the chapter on non-performance deals with such questions as the right to performance, termination, and damages. "An International Restatement of Contact Law" was the first commenatary on the UNIDROIT Principles to be published. It provides an insider's view into the origin, preparation, and basic ideas of the Principles. Moreover, it illustrates the various ways in which the UNIDROIT Principles may be used by the international community, such as legislators, judges, arbitrators, and lawyers. This second, enlarged edition includes four new chapters; two additional foreign language versions of the Principles; as well as 25 recent court decisions and arbitral awards mentioning the Principles.
Download or read book Virginia journal of international law written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Copyright Law and the Information Society in Asia written by Christopher Heath and published by Hart Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book considers important topics in copyright law in the information society with an in-depth comparison of European and US approaches for each.
Download or read book The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law written by Verica Trstenjak and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comparative perspective on one of the most intriguing developments in law: the influence of basic rights and human rights in private law. It analyzes the application of basic rights and human rights, which are traditionally understood as public law rights, in private law, and discusses the related spillover effects and changing perspectives in legal doctrine and practice. It provides examples where basic rights and human rights influence judicial reasoning and lead to changes of legislation in contract law, tort law, property law, family law, and copyright law. Providing both context and background analysis for any critical examination of the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in private law, the book contributes to the current debate on an important issue that deserves the attention of legal practitioners, scholars, judges and others involved in the developments in a variety of the world’s jurisdictions. This book is based on the General Report and national reports commissioned by the International Academy of Comparative Law and written for the XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna, Austria, in the summer of 2014.
Download or read book Revue de droit uniforme written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Reports of the XVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law written by Katharina Boele-Woelki and published by Eleven International Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1057 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work contains the General Reports presented at the XVIIth Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL), which was held in July 2006 in Utrecht. A wide variety of topics is covered in this collection, ranging from liability of judges to competition law. The book provides an interesting assessment of the development of comparative law in recent decades and shows the growing importance of comparative law in various disciplines of law.
Download or read book The Common Core of European Private Law Essays on the Project written by Mauro Bussani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-10-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers originally presented at meetings of the Common Core of European Private Law Project.
Download or read book Copyright Limitations and Contracts An Analysis of the Contractual Overridability of Limitations on Copyright written by Lucie Guibault and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-02-19 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores this conflict, focusing on statutory copyright limitations that enshrine constitutional rights such as freedom of expression and privacy, foster dissemination of knowledge, safeguard competition, and protect authors from market failure. It explains the rationale for these limitations and questions the legality of overriding them by contractual means. The author finds a complex array of factors clouding the emergence of coherent rules in the matter and points out that the United States' Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA) leaves this issue essentially unresolved. Among the author's insights is that, contrary to the commonly held notion that the Internet is a bastion of free speech, in fact it is now possible (via encryption technology) to exercise absolute control over copyrighted material, even under circumstances of global mass distribution.
Download or read book Remuneration for the Use of Works written by Silke von Lewinski and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royalty payments are once again becoming a hot button issue for authors and artists, as well as other holders of copyright or related rights, because they fail to receive adequate compensation for the use of their work on the internet. This volume from the 2015 ALAI Congress contributes to the international discussion of this issue by examining the causes of the problem and possible solutions, including a set of business models to compensate for internet usage. The volume contains mainly English as well as French and Spanish contributions.
Download or read book Collected courses of the Hague Academy of International Law written by Hague Academy of International Law and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
