Researches in European Private Law and Beyond Contributions in Honour of Reiner Schulze's Seventieth Birthday
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- Cover
- Part 1: Reiner Schulze: a Truly European Scholar
- Reiner Schulze, Zeuge und Schöpfer einer modernen europäischen Rechtskultur
- I. Ein Jurist, der sich der Entwicklung des europäischen Privatrechts, sowie dem kulturellen Austausch mit Kollegen anderer Länder widmet
- II. Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsvergleichung - die wissenschaftliche Methode des Reiner Schulze für die Harmonisierung des europäischen Privatrechts
- III. Wandel von der nationalen zu einer europäischen Rechtskultur: Der Einfluss des Softlaw
- IV. Der Beitrag von Reiner Schulze in den Arbeitsgruppen für die Ausarbeitung eines europäischen Privatrechts und für den Erfolg der ZEuP
- V. Die Entwicklung der nationalen Rechtsordnungen unter dem Einfluss der europäischen Gesetzgebung
- VI. Die Rolle der Generalklauseln im Harmonisierungsprozess des europäischen Vertragsrechts
- VII. Entwicklung des europäischen Privatrechts und Schutz der Person
- VIII. Die Notwendigkeit der Ausbildung von europäischen Juristen im Lichte der europäischen Rechtskultur
- Part 2: Researches in European Private Law ...
- Towards New Horizons: Commenting and Codifying European Business Law
- I. Introduction
- 1. A Restless Quest for Further Integration Through Private Law
- 2. Why Business Law?
- II. The Projects
- 1. International and European Business Law Commentary
- 2. The European Business Code
- III. Problem Areas
- 1. Delimitation Between Business and Consumer Law
- 2. Place of General Contract Law
- 3. Competence, Proportionality and Subsidiarity
- IV. Conclusion
- The Amended Proposal COM (2017) 637: a 'New' European Sales Law?
- I. Begrüßung
- II. Short 'story' of the Amended Proposal
- III. Amended Proposal &
- CESL
- 1. Subjective scope
- 2. Objective scope
- 3. The 'optional instrument'
- IV. Amended Proposal &
- Dir. 1999/44
- 1. The hierarchy of remedies against the lack of conformity
- 2. The duration of the legal guarantees
- 3. The time limit for the notice
- 4. The presumption of pre-existence of the lack of conformity
- V. Amended Proposal &
- EU Parlament (&
- EU Council)
- VI. Grundfragen of maximal harmonization: the citizen-consumer, the European jurist and the challenge of non-harmonised national law
- 1. First Grundfrage: is the consumer still a cives or a Bürger under the allgemeiner Teil?
- 2. Second Grundfrage: who is supposed to act on pre-existing non-harmonised law?
- Towards a European Private Law of the Digital Economy? - Trends
- I. Introduction
- II. Some Major Trends in the Relationship between the Digital Economy and Private Law
- 1. Data as Counter-performance
- 2. New Dependencies in the Digital Economy
- a) Data Access and Data Sharing between Data-Haves and Data-Have-Nots
- b) Platforms
- c) Cloud
- d) How Could a Regulatory Solution be Designed?
- aa) General Approach
- bb) Data Access Right on FRAND Basis
- cc) Rules on Fairness Control of Business-to-Business (B2B) Contracts adapted to the Digital Economy
- III. Some final words
- Safety Expectations as the Basis of Product Liability
- I. Working out the defectiveness standard
- II. The high water mark of legitimate expectations? A v National Blood Authority
- III. Challenging the usefulness of the legitimate expectations test
- IV. Challenging the harmful characteristic approach
- V. Challenging the restriction on relevant circumstances
- 1. Risk:benefit, avoidability and cost
- 2. Role of learned intermediaries
- 3. Compliance with standards and regulations
- VI. Defeating expectations of safety - the pivotal role of warnings
- VII. Conclusions
- Machine Learning and European Product Liability
- I. Introduction
- II. AI Algorithms and Machine Learning
- III. The Current European Framework and the Strategy for the Future
- IV. The Product Liability Directive of 1985: An outdated piece of legislation
- V. Some Proposals for Possible Amendments
- 1. The Development Risk Defence
- 2. How to Discover a Defect in the Design
- 3. A Duty to 'Observe' the Product
- VI. Conclusive Remarks
- Unfair Contracts in European Contract Law
- I. Contractual freedom as a main principle of contract law
- II. The freedom of contract in European law
- III. The protection of the weaker party by means of mandatory rules
- IV. Control of standard terms of business
- V. Pre-contractual duties and effective party autonomy
- VI. General clauses as a limit to freedom of contract: abusive conducts and unfair contracts in the framework of 138 BGB
- VII. Other rules regarding cases of abuse in private autonomy
- IIX. Broadening the area of vitiated consent
- The Dialogue Between Courts Concerning Directive 93/13 with Special Regard to the Default Interest Terms
- I. Introduction
- II. Interest on arrears in consumer loans and mortgages
- 1. Some facts
- 2. The Aziz judgment and the Spanish case law mishmash
- 3. The legislature intervenes and creates confusion: if the interest is legal, can it be unfair?
- 4. Towards legal certainty
- a) The Supreme Court of Spain's new assessment criteria
- b) This case law's questionable opportunity
- aa) What is the parties' hypothetical will?
- bb) What if there is an imbalance but legal default interest is not high?
- cc) Ordinary interest is a malleable benchmark
- dd) Tension arises between the mandatory rule and the control of unfairness
- ee) More food for thought at CJEU level
- III. The consequences of declaring default interest terms unfair
- 1. Unfair default interest terms are invalid and cannot be moderated
- 2. Moreover, the default law is not applied to close the gap
- IV. A new Supreme Court of Spain doctrine regarding default interest
- V. The CJEU judgment of 7 August 2018, C-96/16 and C-94/17, Banco Santander / Banco de Sabadell
- 1. In consumers' favour: judge-made criteria is as binding as a legal black list
- 2. In banking's favour: the courts must only stop applying the unfair term
- VI. What conclusions can be drawn from this fruitful dialogue between courts?
- The Contracting Parties' Choice of European Soft Law: Its Validity and Limits
- I. The PECL and their functions
- II. The legal nature of soft law instruments
- III. The impact of the PECL (and PICC) on national laws of Member States
- IV. The impact of the PECL (and PICC) on the European Union's law
- V. The freedom of a contracting parties to choose PECL as the law applicable to their contract
- VI. The mandatory limits to the contracting parties' freedom of choice
- Court of Justice 'light' - The Procedural Choices of the Court and Their Impact on the Quality of Private Law Decisions -
- I. The formations of the Court of Justice
- II. The Advocates-General
- III. First example: Forum selection agreements
- IV. Second example: Director's liability in insolvency
- V. The third example: Prescription of air passengers' claims
- VI. Conclusion
- Legal Translation Within the EU and the Shift of National Legal Paradigms
- I. First translation level: what happens inside any National Legal System
- II. Second translation level: what happens in the EU Legal Translation Enterprise
- 1. The EU Law-Making Process: how it "ought to be" along the Treaties ...
- 2. ... and how "it is"
- a) First Linguistic &
- Terminological Check-Point: Commission's Legal Revisers Group
- b) Second Check-Point: DG Translation
- c) Third Check-Point: Parliament and Council's Lawyer-Linguists
- d) Fourth Check-Point: Council's Language Service of the General Secretariat
- 3. Translation within the EU Law-Making Process
- 4. Approximate Equivalence And Implicit Meanings
- 5. Expectation bias
- 6. Collective agency bias
- 7. Abandoning perfect equivalence
- III. Third translation level: The "Exchange relation" in situations of contact between interrelated cultures
- 1. Impact of EU legislation on national legal systems
- 2. 'Two mothers' within the Italian legal system
- a) Being 'mother' in case law
- b) Being 'mother' in public documents
- 3. 'Son of' (two mothers or two fathers) within the Italian legal system
- IV. Conclusion
- V. Epilogue
- Part 3: ... and Beyond: Researches in International Uniform Law, International Private Law, Comparative Law, Legal History, and other Areas of Law
- The Quest for Uniform Laws
- Prologue
- I. Introduction
- II. Uniformity and Diversity
- 1. European and national laws: Synergistic relationship
- 2. Hard and soft law: Contracts
- a) Soft law as hard law and hard law as soft law
- b) Soft law and its prescriptive dimension
- III. Efficiency and Sovereignty
- 1. View of law harmonization: Political and economic perspectives
- 2. Public-Private law distinction
- IV. Quest and Futility
- 1. Hard and soft law again
- 2. Story of the Uniform Commercial Code
- V. What is Uniformity of Law?
- 1. Success of the European Union
- 2. European private law as competitive advantage
- VI. Concluding Remarks
- CISG und Europäisches Privatrecht
- I. Zueignung
- II. CISG
- III. CISG und europäisches Kaufrecht
- 1. Verbrauchsgüterkaufrichtlinie und ihre Neuregelung
- a) Allgemeines
- b) Übereinstimmung in der Grundstruktur
- c) Auslegung
- c) "Verbrauchsgüter" und "Waren"
- d) Ausgeschlossene Gegenstände
- e) Fehlerbegriff