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

Hesselink, Martijn W.

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

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

68 Pages Posted: 27 Feb 2008 Last revised: 8 Apr 2011

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Martijn W. Hesselink

European University Institute - Department of Law (LAW)

Date Written: December 11, 2001

Abstract

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.

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

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Hesselink, Martijn W., The Principles of European Contract Law: Some Choices Made by the Lando Commission (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, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1098869