An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law

James Gordley holds the W. R. Irby Chair in Law at Tulane University, and specialises in comparative and contract law. Hao Jiang is an assistant professor of comparative law at Università Bocconi. He writes in the areas of American corporate and contract law, Chinese and European civil law and comparative law. Arthur Taylor von Mehren was Professor of Law at Harvard University, Massachusetts, and was a world-renowned scholar in international and comparative law.

• Preface; Foreword by Shiyuan Han; Foreword by Reinhard Zimmermann; Foreword by André Tunc; Foreword by Roscoe Pound; 1. Traditions; 2. Institutions; Part I. The Law of Obligations: 3. The structure of contract law; 4. Voluntary commitment; 5. Fairness; 6. Excuses for non-performance; 7. Remedies; 8. The scope of the rights protected; 9. The conduct for which one is liable; 10. The principle; 11. Must one party gain at the other's expense?; Part II. The Law of Property: 12. Possession; 13. Ownership.