Dusk over the european contract law? Cost-benefit assessment : a review

• Authors: Daniel Houska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

After years of effort, the European Commission aimed to complete a harmonisation of the European contract law with the instrument called ‘Common European Sales Law’ in order to further facilitate a crossborder trade. However, a strange coalition of both consumer and business organizations was formed against such an instrument. This unexpected turn of events revealed that the proper analysis of not just the benefits of a harmonisation but also its costs may have not been balanced with the respect to various groups of its users. This article deals with the critical cost-benefit assessment of the aforementioned issues to evaluate the current and contemplated path in the European contract law with possible suggestions for further improvement.

Keywords

EN

contract; economic analysis; European Union

Discipline

• LAW_&_ADMINISTRATION: LAW & ADMINISTRATION

• Publisher: Institute of State and Law, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: The Lawyer Quarterly
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 359-366
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Daniel Houska

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