This is the second edition of the widely acclaimed and successful casebook on Contract in the Ius Commune Series, developed to be used throughout Europe and aimed at those who teach, learn or practise law with a comparative or European perspective. The book contains leading cases, legislation and other materials from the legal traditions within Europe, with a focus on English, French and German law as the main representatives of those traditions. The book contains the basic texts and contrasting cases as well as extracts from the various international restatements (the Vienna Sales Convention, the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law, the Draft Common Frame of Reference and so on). Materials are chosen and ordered so as to foster comparative study, and complemented with annotations and comparative overviews prepared by a multinational team. The whole Casebook is in English. The principal subjects covered in this book include: General (including the distinctions between Contract and Property, Tort and Restitution); Formation; Validity; Interpretation and Contents; Remedies; Supervening Events; and Third Parties. Please click on the link below to visit the series website: www.casebooks.eu/contractLaw.

Author Biography

Hugh Beale is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, and Visiting Professor at the Universities of Amsterdam and Oxford. He is a former Law Commissioner for England and Wales. Benedicte Fauvarque-Cosson is Professor of Law at the Universite Pantheon-Assas (Paris II). Jacobien Rutgers is Reader in Law at the Free University of Amsterdam. Denis Tallon is Professor Emeritus of the Universite Pantheon-Assas (Paris II). Stefan Vogenauer is the Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, Fellow of Brasenose College and Director of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law.