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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.

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 229 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Markets and the law
Markets and the law.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Codifying contract law : internationalisation imperatives and regional perspectives / Mary Keyes and Therese Wilson -- Internationalization of contract law / Mary Keyes -- Regional and global unification of contract law / Ingeborg Schwenzer -- 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 -- Government's proposed review of Aaustralia's contract law : an interim positive response / Luke Nottage -- 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.
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Subject Contracts -- Codification.
Contracts.
Law -- International unification.
Law -- International unification.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Law.
Added Author Keyes, Mary, editor.
Wilson, Therese (Law professor), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Codifying contract law. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2014 9781472415615 (DLC) 2014019350 (OCoLC)880374843
ISBN 9781472415622 (electronic book)
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9781472415615 (hardback)
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