English and European perspectives on contract and commercial law
Subtitle: essays in honour of Hugh Beale
By: edited by Louise Gullifer and Stefan Vogenauer
Contributors: Beale, H. G., honouree
Publisher: Hart Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom; Portland, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9781849465496
Subjects: Contracts; Commercial law
Description: "The purpose of this book is to honour the influential and wide-ranging work of Professor Hugh Beale, who retires from full time teaching at Warwick University this year. It contains essays by twenty-five very distinguished authors, each of whom has worked with Professor Beale as a co-author, as a teaching colleague, during his time as Law Commissioner of England and Wales, or as part of the study groups working in Europe on contract and commercial law. The essays reflect different aspects of Professor Beale's interests. Some concentrate on English contract law, either from a historical or a current perspective, while others are focused on aspects of European contract law. There are four essays looking at current issues relating to security and financing, and, as befits a former Law Commissioner, three essays on law reform. The essays in the final section discuss trends in transnational and European commercial law. This book brings together the reflections of eminent writers from all over Europe on important issues facing contract and commercial law, and will be of interest to all scholars and practitioners working in these areas. "--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Legal history; title: 1. Merchants and the legislative process in thirteenth century England : the making of the Statutes of Acton Burnel (1283) and Merchants (1285) / Paul Brand; title: 2. Contract terms between unequal parties in Victorian England / Catharine MacMillan; title: Law reform; title: 3. Alternatives to legislation : restatements and judicial law reform / Andrew Burrows; title: 4. The impact of rule-making by financial services regulators on the common law : the lessons of PPI / Eva Lomnicka; title: 5. Some thoughts on consumer law reform : consolidation, codification or a restatement? / Christian Twigg-Flesner; title: English contract law; title: 6. Freedom to exercise contractual rights of termination / Michael Bridge; title: 7. Regulating unfair terms / Mindy Chen-Wishart; title: 8. Time to reflect on the right to reject / Eric Clive; title: 9. Universal terms in contract / Michael Furmston; title: 10. Some thoughts on undisclosed agency / Thomas Krebs; title: 11. Innominate terms revisited / Ewan McKendrick.; title: 12.  Variation and termination of consumer contracts / Simon Whittaker; title: European contract law; title: 13. Unfair prices in the Common European Sales Law / Martijn W. Hesselink; title: 14. CISG and CESL : simplicity, fairness and social justice / Ole Lando; title: 15. The law of assignment in European contract law / Wolf-Georg Ringe; title: 16. Unfair terms in consumer contracts / Jacobien W. Rutgers; title: 17. "General principles" of contract law in transnational instruments / Stefan Vogenauer; title: 18. Interest for delay in payment of money / Reinhard Zimmermann; title: Security and financing; title: 19. The assignment of pure intangibles in conflict of laws / Roy Goode; title: 20. Compulsory central clearing of OTC derivatives : the changing face of the provision of collateral / Louise Gullifer; title: 21. European secured transactions law at a crossroad : the pitfalls of a "piecemeal approach" to harmonisation / Anna Veneziano; title: 22. How secure is security? / Sarah Worthington; title: Trends in transnational and European commercial law; title: 23. The numerus clausus of property rights : a European principle? / Christian von Bar; title: 24. New principles in the legal world : The Hague Principles on the Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts / Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson; title: 25. Ex officio application in case of unenforceable contracts or contract clauses : EU law and national laws confronted / Arthur S. Hartkamp.