Themes in Comparative Law In Honour of Bernard Rudden

by Birks, Peter; Pretto, Arianna

• ISBN13: 9780199258567
• ISBN10: 0199258562
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Compiled in honor of Bernard Rudden, this is a book of essays in comparative law centering on the contribution which comparative analysis can make to the core subjects of private law, namely property and obligations. The essays are contributed by leading academics from all over the world, all of whom owe an intellectual debt to the honorand.

Author Biography

Peter Birks is Regius Professor of Civil Law at All Souls College, Oxford Arrianna Pretto, Fellow of Brasenose College

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	xi
FUNDAMENTALS AND METHOD
Stare Decisis in Civil-Law Countries: The Last Bastion	3	(18)
Hans W Baade
Alterity: About Rules, For Example	21	(14)
Pierre Legrand
Comparative Law and the Legal Mind	35	(16)
Geoffrey Samuel
PROPERTY THEORY
Property---Rights in Rem or Wealth?	51	(14)
Jim Harris
Primary Rights and Rights in Rem	65	(18)
Arianna Pretto
PROPERTY SPECIFICS
Property and Legal Culture in France	83	(14)
John Bell
Are Intangible Assets Fungible?	97	(10)
Roy Goode
The Origin of Riparian Rights	107	(14)
James Gordley
Tuttifrutti	121	(16)
Michele Graziadei
OBLIGATIONS
Comparative Unjust Enrichment	137	(16)
Peter Birks
Defects of Consent and Security of Contract: French and English Law Compared	153	(12)
John Cartwright
Ius Cogens, Ius Dipositivum, and the Law of Personal Work Contracts	165	(14)
Mark Freedland
FORM AND FORMALITY
Formation of Contracts on the Internet	179	(20)
Gerhard Dannemann
The Reformulation of Contractual Formality	199	(22)
Simon Whittaker
REFORM
Les limites d'un droit europeen du travail	221	(14)
Xavier Blanc-Jouvan
Should Europe Codify Trust?	235	(18)
Ugo Mattei
Insurance Law in Post-Soviet Russia	253	(12)
Vladislav Moudrykh
Modernizing the German Law of Obligations?	265	(24)
Reinhard Zimmermann
Opera Ruddeniana	289	(8)
Index	297