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The Need for a European Contract Law; Empirical and Legal PerspectivesEditor: Prof. Jan Smits, University of Tilburg, February 2005, 188p. Binding: paperback. ISBN: 978-90-76871-35-6. Price: €42, $72. Language: English. |
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About the bookThis 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. |
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About the editorJan Smits, Professor of European Private Law and Comparative Law at the University of Tilburg (the Netherlands), studied at the universities of Leiden (NL) and Poitiers (F). He was a research associate and a lecturer at the Department of Private Law of Universiteit Leiden, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in 1995. Subsequently, he was a lecturer at the Universities of Stellenbosch (South Africa) and Tilburg (NL). In 1996 he joined the Faculty of Law of the Universiteit Maastricht. Since 1998, he is also chargé de cours at the Université de Liège (B). His publications are in the field of (European) private law, comparative law and legal theory. |
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ReviewJ.A. Sanchez-Dafos in I.C.C.L.R. 2006, p. 114-115: "this book provides a high discussion of legal, economic and philosophical issues which may arise in the pursuit of a uniform European contract law set of rules". |
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