English and European perspectives on contract and commercial law : essays in honour of Hugh Beale /: essays in honour of Hugh Beale. (2014 copyright 2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Louise Gullifer and Stefan Vogenauer.
• Editors: Gullifer, Louise; Vogenauer, Stefan, 1968-
• Other Names: Beale, H. G honouree.
• Contents: Legal history -- 1. Merchants and the legislative process in thirteenth century England : the making of the Statutes of Acton Burnel (1283) and Merchants (1285) / Paul Brand -- 2. Contract terms between unequal parties in Victorian England / Catharine MacMillan -- Law reform -- 3. Alternatives to legislation : restatements and judicial law reform / Andrew Burrows -- 4. The impact of rule-making by financial services regulators on the common law : the lessons of PPI / Eva Lomnicka -- 5. Some thoughts on consumer law reform : consolidation, codification or a restatement? / Christian Twigg-Flesner -- English contract law -- 6. Freedom to exercise contractual rights of termination / Michael Bridge -- 7. Regulating unfair terms / Mindy Chen-Wishart -- 8. Time to reflect on the right to reject / Eric Clive -- 9. Universal terms in contract / Michael Furmston -- 10. Some thoughts on undisclosed agency / Thomas Krebs -- 11. Innominate terms revisited / Ewan McKendrick. 12. Variation and termination of consumer contracts / Simon Whittaker -- European contract law -- 13. Unfair prices in the Common European Sales Law / Martijn W. Hesselink -- 14. CISG and CESL : simplicity, fairness and social justice / Ole Lando -- 15. The law of assignment in European contract law / Wolf-Georg Ringe -- 16. Unfair terms in consumer contracts / Jacobien W. Rutgers -- 17. "General principles" of contract law in transnational instruments / Stefan Vogenauer -- 18. Interest for delay in payment of money / Reinhard Zimmermann -- Security and financing -- 19. The assignment of pure intangibles in conflict of laws / Roy Goode -- 20. Compulsory central clearing of OTC derivatives : the changing face of the provision of collateral / Louise Gullifer -- 21. European secured transactions law at a crossroad : the pitfalls of a "piecemeal approach" to harmonisation / Anna Veneziano -- 22. How secure is security? / Sarah Worthington -- Trends in transnational and European commercial law -- 23. The numerus clausus of property rights : a European principle? / Christian von Bar -- 24. New principles in the legal world : The Hague Principles on the Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts / Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson -- 25. Ex officio application in case of unenforceable contracts or contract clauses : EU law and national laws confronted / Arthur S. Hartkamp.
• Publisher Details: London : Hart Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (424 pages)
• Subjects: 346; Law -- Contracts; Contracts -- Great Britain; Contracts -- Europe; Commercial law -- Great Britain; Commercial law -- Europe; Contract law; Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland; EU-landen; Feestbundels (vorm)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782255192; 1782255192
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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