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Title Capacitas : contract law and the institutional preconditions of a market economy / edited by Simon Deakin and Alain Supiot
Published Oxford [England] ; Portland, Or. : Hart Pub., 2009

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Description 1 online resource ([ix], 171 pages)
Contents Capacitas : contract law, capabilities and the legal foundations of the market / Simon Deakin -- Capacity and capability in European contract law / Martijn W. Hesselink -- Rationalisation and derationalisation of legal capacity in historical perspective : some general caveats / Alain Wijffels -- Revisiter la notion juridique de capacité? / Jean Hauser -- Le concept de capacité dans le droit des contrats français / Sandrine Godelain -- La notion de capacité et l'évolution du droit du travail italien / Aurora Vimercati -- La recherche d'un concept de capacitas en droit du licenciement allemand / Wiebke Brose -- 'Capacitas' and capabilties in international labour law / Renée-Claude Drouin -- En guise de conclusion : la capacité, une notion à haut potentiel / Alain Supiot
Summary One of the principal tasks for legal research at the beginning of the 21st century is to reconstruct the understanding of the relationship between the legal system and the market order. After almost three decades of deregulation driven by a belief in the self-equilibrating properties of the market, the financial crisis of 2008 has reminded everyone of the fundamental truth that markets have legal and institutional foundations, without which they cannot effectively function. The chapters in the present volume are the result of work by a group of legal scholars which began in the mid-2000s, at a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Papers in English and French
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Subject Contracts -- Economic aspects
Capacity and disability.
LAW -- Liability.
LAW -- Contracts.
Capacity and disability
Contracts -- Economic aspects
Form Electronic book
Author Deakin, S. F. (Simon F.)
Supiot, Alain
ISBN 9781847315212
1847315216
9781472560520
1472560523
Other Titles Contract law and the institutional preconditions of a market economy