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Title Codifying contract law : international and consumer law perspectives / edited by Mary Keyes, Griffith University, Australia ; Therese Wilson, Griffith University, Australia
Published Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 229 pages)
Series Markets and the law
Markets and the law.
Contents Codifying contract law : internationalisation imperatives and regional perspectives / Mary Keyes and Therese Wilson -- The internationalization of contract law / Mary Keyes -- Regional and global unification of contract law / Ingeborg Schwenzer -- The challenges of good faith in contract law codification / Therese Wilson -- Codification mania and the changing nation state : a European perspective / Hans-W. Micklitz -- Integrating consumer law into the civil code : a Japanese attempt at re-codification / Hiroo Sono -- The government's proposed review of Aaustralia's contract law : an interim positive response / Luke Nottage -- The partial codification of contract law : lessons from New Zealand / Rick Bigwood -- Codification and the American discussion about how judges decide cases / Richard Hyland
Summary Exploring the advantages and disadvantages of codifying contract law, this book considers the question from the perspectives of both civil and common law systems, referring in detail to issues of international and consumer law. With contributions from leading international scholars, the chapters present a range of opinions on issues such as the virtues of codification, first codification attempts, regional issues and the pre-requisite of internationalization, encouraging further debate on the topic of codification reforms
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Contracts -- Codification
Law -- International unification.
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Law -- International unification
Form Electronic book
Author Keyes, Mary, editor.
Wilson, Therese (Law professor), editor
ISBN 9781472415622
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9781472415639
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9781317164838
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