Reforming The Law Of Obligations And Company Law

Les contributions rassemblées dans cet ouvrage ont été présentées à l'Institut Max Planck pour le droit comparé et le droit international privé de Hambourg (Allemagne) les 1er et 2 novembre 2012. Elles ont trait aux réformes des droits français et allemand. Les différents thèmes abordés ont été choisis avec pour arrière-plan la concurrence normative dans l'Union européenne et avec pour projet de mettre à l'épreuve l'hypothèse selon laquelle les réformes nationales sont influencées par l'évolution du droit de l'Union européenne ainsi que par celle des autres droits nationaux. Précisément, l'ouvrage vise à donner un aperçu des réformes françaises et allemandes dans les champs du droit dans lesquels la concurrence normative apparaît la plus vive : le droit des obligations, le droit des sociétés et le droit des entreprises en difficultés. Rédigé en anglais et en français, nourri de remarques comparatives, ce livre a pour ambition d'aider à mieux comprendre le processus contemporain de fabrication du droit dans l'Union européenne.

During its classical period, American contract law had three prominent characteristics: nearly unlimited freedom to choose the contents of a contract, a clear separation from the law of tort (the law of civil wrongs), and the power to make contracts without regard to the other party's ability to understand them. Combining incisive historical analysis with a keen sense of judicial politics, W. David Slawson shows how judges brought the classical period to an end about 1960 with a period of reform that continues to this day. American contract law no longer possesses any of the prominent characteristics of its classical period. For instance, courts now refuse to enforce standard contracts according to their terms; they implement the consumer's reasonable expectations instead. Businesses can no longer count on making the contracts they want: laws for certain industries or for businesses generally set many business obligations regardless of what the contracts say. A person who knowingly breaches a contract and then tries to avoid liability is subject to heavy penalties. As Slawson demonstrates, judges accomplished all these reforms, although with some help from scholars. Legislation contributed very little despite its presence in massive amounts and despite the efforts of modern institutions of law reform such as the Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Slawson argues persuasively that this comparison demonstrates the superiority of judge-made law to legislation for reforming private law of any kind.

This book examines the new codifications, reforms, and other recent developments in Central and Southeast Europe which have significantly modernized the law of obligations in the last two decades.

This book explores commercial contract law in scholarship and legal practice, suggests new research agendas and provides a forum for debate of typical issues that might benefit from further attention by scholarship and legislatures. The authors from over ten different jurisdictions take an international and comparative approach. Not confined to EU law it re-opens the debate internationally and seeks to reclaim the wider meaning of European law as rooted in geography and cultural legal heritage. There is a need to focus on commercial contracts in more detail in research and legislation. The transactional approach, the role of recent law reform, including the new French Civil Code, cross-border dealings, substantive contract law in public international law and ICSID arbitration as well as current contractual practices like OEM, CSR, contractual co-operation, sustainability and intra-corporate arbitration contribute to a wider regulatory outlook for commercial transactions.

Private company law reform is among the most important topics for lawmakers and companies. This volume explains in detail the legal reforms taking place in the principal European jurisdictions, the United States and Asia. Bringing together a leading group of company law scholars, the essays examine the factors leading to the rise of the new unincorporated entities in the US and Asia and explains how private company law forms can be suitably adapted to meet a wide range of firms' needs. The contributions also examine the important reforms taking place in private company law across the EU, address how these reforms may lead to a more optimal environment for businesses to operate and analyse the introduction of the European Private Company.

This book develops an analytical legal framework for determining the substantive fundamental rights obligations of corporations.

"The second edition of this popular book on company law combines theoretical and jurisprudential issues with an up-to-date account of legal developments across the field of company law. The author demonstrates that the needs of shareholders in companies which have dispersed ownership of shares cannot be properly understood without an analysis of the law relating to securities regulation and capital markets." "Company Law is essential reading for LL.B. courses in universities and also covers the requirements of the University of London (External) LL.B. The book offers excellent foundation reading for postgraduate LL.M.s in company and capital markets law and is an excellent critical survey of a dynamic field of law for students qualifying professionally in the fields of accounting, finance and company secretaryship."--BOOK JACKET.