Control of Standard Business Terms: A Comparison between the Systematic Approach of §§ 305 ff. BGB and Art. 496-498 of the Chinese Civil Code

Shuai Huang is a doctoral candidate of law under the supervision of Prof. Hinrich Julius at University of Hamburg with a scholarship from the China Scholarship Council. He passed the oral defense of his doctoral dissertation with the grade “magna cum laude” on 27.10.2022. The main field of his doctoral study is private law and comparative law. The other fields of his research include European and international law, law and economics, legal theory, and international relationships. Shuai Huang got a master’s degree in Chinese civil and commercial law from China’s University of Political Science and Law. He got another master’s degree in European and international law from University of Hamburg. He passed the National Judicial Examination of China in 2013.

• Introduction – Chapter 1: A Comparison Between German Law and Chinese Law on Control of Standard Business Terms – Chapter 2: The Problem Shared by Germany and China: Differentiating Between B2C Contracts and B2B Contracts – Chapter 3: The Unique Problem of the Chinese Civil Code and Its German Solution: The Typical Criteria of Content Control – Chapter 4: A Frame for the Differentiation Between the Control of B2C and B2B Standard Business Terms – Chapter 5: An Interpretation of Art. 497 CCC Based on the Experience of § 307 II BGB – Conclusion – References – Index