The harmonisation of European contract law : implications for European private laws, business and legal practice / edited by Stefan Vogenauer and Stephen Weatherill
The spectre of European contract law / Stefan Vogenauer -- Harmonisation of European contract law : the state we are in / Ewan McKendrick -- English law reform and the impact of European private law / Hugh Beale -- The ideal of codification and the dynamics of Europeanisation : the Dutch experience / Martijn W. Hesselink -- Contract law reform : the German experience / Reinhard Zimmermann -- Constitutional issues--how much is best left unsaid? / Stephen Weatherill -- The European Community's competence to pursue the harmonisation of contract law--an empirical contribution to the debate / Stefan Vogenauer & Stephen Weatherill -- Harmonisation of and codification in European contract law / Guido Alpa -- Contracts and European consumer law : an OFT perspective / Sir John Vickers -- The Commission's communications and standard contract terms / Ulf Bernitz -- Non-legislative harmonisation : protection from unfair suretyships / Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi -- Harmonisation of European insurance contract law / Daniela Weber-Rey -- European contract law, what does it mean and what does it not mean? / Dirk Staudenmayer -- Harmonisation of European contract law--the United Kingdom government's thinking / Baroness Ashton Of Upholland
Summary
Presents a report of a survey carried out by the Oxford Institute for European and Comparative Law in collaboration with Clifford Chance, which sought the views of European businesses about the advantages and disadvantages of further harmonisation. It brings empirical data to a debate that has thus far lacked clear evidence of this sort
