Uniform Rules for European Contract Law?

Francisco de Elizalde is Associate Professor of Law at IE University, Spain.

• 1. The First Stage of Modern European Contract Law Francisco de Elizalde2. The Role for European Contract Law: Uniformity or Diversity? Hugh BealePart I: Uniform Rules for the Internal Market3. Ius Commune and Contract LawBart Wauters4. Optimal Standards for the Single Market: A Law and Economics Approach Juan José Ganuza and Fernando Gómez Pomar5. Non-national Rules in the Arbitration of Commercial Contracts Zeynep Derya TarmanPart II: Uniform Rules for National Legislators and Courts6. The Modernisation of the Law of Obligations Using the Principles of European Contract Law Encarna Roca Trías7. Uniform Rules as Guidelines for National Courts and Legislatures: The German ExperienceThomas Ackermann8. National Reforms: New Instruments Towards Converging Rules within Europe? The Example of the French Contract Law Reform (2016) Bénédicte Fauvarque-CossonPart III: Uniform Rules to Bridge the Gap between the Common Law and the Civil Law9. The Rise of EU Consumer Law between Common Law and Civil Law Legal Traditions Geraint Howells and Mateja Durovic10. Bridging the Gap: The CISG as a Successful Legal Hybrid between Common Law and Civil Law? André Janssen and Navin G Ahuja11. The Sources and Effects of Contractual Terms: Towards an Approximation of Common Law and Civil Law Francisco de ElizaldePart IV: Uniform Rules as a Model for Non-EU Countries12. European Contract Law and Asian Contract Law Mateja Durovic13. The Two Spirits of the PLACL Iñigo de la Maza Gazmuri14. The Effects of European Harmonisation on Turkish Contract Law Isik Önay15. An American Perspective on the European Harmonisation of Contract Law Larry A DiMatteo

Taken together, the essays collected in this book present a timely overview of the state of play of harmonised European contract law. For readers who are new to the field, such as students of transnational or European contract law, the book provides a fine introduction to the main themes and problems of harmonisation. For readers familiar with the field, the book confirms what lessons have been learnt since Ole Lando first proposed the creation of a set of Principles of European Contract Law. The creation of a European Civil Code, which was once a dream of some scholars in the field, has not come to be.