The Principles of European Contract Law: Some Choices Made by the Lando Commission

Hesselink, Martijn W.

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The Principles of European Contract Law: Some Choices Made by the Lando Commission

Martijn W. Hesselink

University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)

December 11, 2001

PRINCIPLES OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW, Preadviezen uitgebracht voor de vereniging voor Burgerlijk Recht , Deventer: Kluwer 2001
Global Jurist Frontiers, Vol. 1, No. 1, Article 4

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This paper discusses the Principles of European Contract Law which were published by the Lando commission. It does so by addressing some of the choices the Lando commission made when drafting their Principles. In particular it examines choices with regard to the purpose of the PECL, the authors and their working method, the format and style, the subject matter, politics, culture, economics, and progress v. tradition. In assessing these choices it tries to provide a deconstruction of the PECL as a restatement of the common core of European contract law.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 68

Keywords: European contract law, European law, contract law, restatement, soft law, politics, deconstruction

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Date posted: February 27, 2008 ; Last revised: April 8, 2011

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Hesselink, Martijn W., The Principles of European Contract Law: Some Choices Made by the Lando Commission (December 11, 2001). Global Jurist Frontiers, Vol. 1, No. 1, Article 4. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1098869

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Martijn W. Hesselink (Contact Author)

University of Amsterdam - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) ( email )

University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Law
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