Towards a European Law of Contracts

Abstract: European contract law has recently been the subject of increasing attention and intense debate. In addressing this issue, the following contribution departs from traditional analyses of the necessity, feasibility, and opportunity to harmonise national legislation on contractual relations. Instead, the author seeks to demonstrate that, with the objective of promoting the internal market and developing trade within it, EC authorities have long since given birth to a genuine European contract law. Beginning with the analysis of a body of EC directives, this article argues that the genuine nature of this law can be ascertained despite its limits or rather by taking these limits into account. The important rights granted to different contracting parties (consumer‐purchaser, consumer‐tourist, and certain professionals) stand in contrast to the formal incoherence and fragmented character of the legal texts. The article concludes that, in analysing the notion of European contact law, it is necessary to adapt a functional approach rather than a formal one, because the functional approach has dominated European integration and the European law of contracts since its inception.     

从比较法、法社会学到比较法社会学

摆在读者面前的这本书 ,是多个研究项目的共同成果 ,也是近年来我的学术思想转变过程的记录。一1 996年当我向国家社会科学基金申请《比较法社会学 :框架和方法》这一项目时 ,我的基本思路是 :“是否能通过某些法律指标来衡量不同国家法律制度的发达程度。如果能 ,通过哪些法律指标 ,这些指标之间的关系如何。”大家知道 ,在经济学中经常使用一系列的经济指标 ,如人均国民经济产值 ,人均消耗石油的数量 ,居住在城市的人口占总人口的百分比等来衡量和比较不同国家的经济发达程度、工业化水平和都市化程度。在法学研究中 ,比如我们在衡量和比…     

The Pregnant Man and Criminal Law. Towards Generating a New European Approach

Criminal Law Forum - This article aims at promoting a new approach regarding criminal law and crimes that include a provision that relates to pregnancy. We thus try to set a starting point for...