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Course Information:
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A. Structure of the Seminar.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences? The Oxford handbook of comparative law. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006:383–419.
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John C. Reitz. How to Do Comparative Law. The American Journal of Comparative Law. 1998;46:617–36.
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Rodolfo Sacco. Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law (Installment I of II). The American Journal of Comparative Law. 1991;39:1–34.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Chodosh, Hiram E. Comparing Comparisons: In Search of Methodology. Iowa Law Review. 1998;84.
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Roscoe Pound. WHAT MAY WE EXPECT FROM COMPARATIVE LAW? American Bar Association Journal. 1936;22:56–60.
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Roscoe Pound. Comparative Law in Space and Time. The American Journal of Comparative Law. 1955;4:70–84.
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Review by: Jonathan Hill. Comparative Law, Law Reform and Legal Theory. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. 1989;9:101–15.
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Jansen. Comparative Law and Comparative Knowledge. The Oxford handbook of comparative law. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006.
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Michaels. The Functional Method of Comparative Law. The Oxford handbook of comparative law. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Glenn. Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions Law. The Oxford handbook of comparative law. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006:421–40.
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Frankenberg, Gunter. Critical Comparisons: Re-thinking Comparative Law. Harvard International Law Journal. 1985;26.
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E. Questions .
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A. England & Wales.
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B. US Contract Law.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. United States contract law. Rev. ed. [Ardsley-on-Hudson, N.Y.]: Juris Pub 1999.
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Atiyah, P. S., Summers, Robert S. Form and substance in Anglo-American law: a comparative study of legal reasoning, legal theory, and legal institutions. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1987.
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Farnsworth, E. Allan, Sheppard, Steve. An introduction to the legal system of the United States. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press 2010.
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. 4th ed. New York: Aspen Publishers 2004.
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Fletcher, George P., Sheppard, Steve. American law in a global context: the basics. New York: Oxford University Press 2004.
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Dawson, John Philip. The oracles of the law. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press 1968.
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German Civil Code BGB. http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bgb/index.html
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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Robbers, Gerhard. An introduction to German law. 4th ed. Baden-Baden: Nomos 2006.
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Chapter 10: Law of Contracts. Business transactions in Germany, Volume 1.
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Foster, Nigel G., Sule, Satish. German legal system and laws. 4th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Statutes/Proposals/Restatements etc.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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Comparative Contract Law. The Oxford handbook of comparative law. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006:899–935.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Volume 7, Chapter 9: The Formation of Contracts. International encyclopedia of comparative law, Volume 7. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck .
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Gordley, James, Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An introduction to the comparative study of private law: readings, cases, materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract law. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Lon L. Fuller. Consideration and Form. Columbia Law Review. 1941;41:799–824.
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E. Allan Farnsworth. Promises to Make Gifts. The American Journal of Comparative Law. 1995;43:359–78.
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Arthur T. von Mehren. Civil-Law Analogues to Consideration: An Exercise in Comparative Analysis. Harvard Law Review. 1959;72:1009–78.
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B. S. Markesinis. Cause and Consideration: A Study in Parallel. The Cambridge Law Journal. 1978;37:53–75.
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Peel, Edwin, Treitel, G. H. The law of contract. 13th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell 2011.
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Gordley, James, Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An introduction to the comparative study of private law: readings, cases, materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006.
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Peel, Edwin, Treitel, G. H. The law of contract. 13th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell 2011.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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E. Allan Farnsworth. Precontractual Liability and Preliminary Agreements: Fair Dealing and Failed Negotiations. Columbia Law Review. 1987;87:217–94.
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Zimmermann, Reinhard, Whittaker, Simon. Good faith in European contract law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2000.
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Gordley, James, Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An introduction to the comparative study of private law: readings, cases, materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott. Precontractual Liability and Preliminary Agreements. Harvard Law Review. 2007;120:661–707.
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Scott, Robert E. Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores and the Myth of Precontractual Reliance. Ohio State Law Journal. 2007;68.
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Friedrich Kessler and Edith Fine. Culpa in Contrahendo, Bargaining in Good Faith, and Freedom of Contract: A Comparative Study. Harvard Law Review. 1964;77:401–49.
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Brownsword, Roger. Contract law: themes for the twenty-first century. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006.
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Beatson J, Friedman D, editors. Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law. Oxford University Press 1997.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract law. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Wagner-von Papp F. European Contract Law: Are No Oral Modification Clauses Not Worth the Paper They Are Written On? Current Legal Problems. 2010;63:511–96. doi: 10.1093/clp/63.1.511
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Peel, Edwin, Treitel, G. H. The law of contract. 13th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell 2011.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract law. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Stefan. Interpretation of Contracts: Concluding Comparative Observations. Contract terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007:123–50.
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. 4th ed. New York: Aspen Publishers 2004.
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Burrows A. Construction and Rectification. Contract terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007:77–100.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract law. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. 4th ed. New York: Aspen Publishers 2004.
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Beale, H. G. Cases, materials and text on contract law. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2010.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Beale, H. G. Cases, materials and text on contract law. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2010.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract law. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. 4th ed. New York: Aspen Publishers 2004.
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Gordley, James, Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An introduction to the comparative study of private law: readings, cases, materials. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006.
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Maxeiner, James R. Standard-Terms Contracting in the Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives. Yale Journal of International Law. 2003;28.
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Brownsword, Roger. Contract law: themes for the twenty-first century. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006.
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Peel, Edwin, Treitel, G. H. The law of contract. 13th ed. London: Sweet & Maxwell 2011.
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Beale, H. G. Cases, materials and text on contract law. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2010.
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Beale, H. G. Cases, materials and text on contract law. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2010.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract law. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Zweigert, Konrad, Kötz, Hein. Introduction to comparative law. 3rd rev. ed. Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
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Lando H. The Myth Of Specific Performance in Civil Law Countries. 2003.
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Steven Shavell. Damage Measures for Breach of Contract. The Bell Journal of Economics. 1980;11:466–90.
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Anthony T. Kronman. Specific Performance. The University of Chicago Law Review. 1978;45:351–82.
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Alan Schwartz. The Case for Specific Performance. The Yale Law Journal. 1979;89:271–306.
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Beale, H. G. Cases, materials and text on contract law. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2010.
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Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, Johnston, Angus Charles. The German law of contract: a comparative treatise. 2nd ed. Oxford: Hart 2006.
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract law. 10th ed. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2013.
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. 4th ed. New York: Aspen Publishers 2004.
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Peter. The CISG : a new textbook for students and practitioners. 2007.
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Ferrari, Franco. Defining the Sphere of Application of the 1994 Unidroit Principles of International Commerical Contracts. Tulane Law Review. 1994;69.
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Commission Proposal for a Regulation on a Common European Sales Law COM (2011) 635 final. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2011:0635:FIN:en:PDF
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Draft Common Frame of Reference. Outline Edition.
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Beale H. The Future of the Common Frame of Reference. European Review of Contract Law. 2007;3:257–76.
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Hans. EC Law on the Formation of Contract – from the Common Frame of Reference to the ‘Blue Button’. European Review of Contract Law. ;3:332–49.
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House of Lords European Committee, Session 2008-09, Twelfth Report: ‘European Contract Law: The Draft Common Frame of Reference’. http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldselect/ldeucom/95/9502.htm
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Eidenmuller H, Faust F, Grigoleit HC, et al. The Common Frame of Reference for European Private Law--Policy Choices and Codification Problems. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies. 2008;28:659–708. doi: 10.1093/ojls/gqn031
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Whittaker S. Draft Common Frame of Reference: an assessment - Ministry of Justice. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110201125714/http://www.justice.gov.uk/publications/eu-contract-law-common-frame-reference.htm
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Green Paper on Policy Options July 2010.
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European Parliament’s Draft Report on the Green Paper. http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=COMPARL&mode=XML&language=EN&reference=PE456.886
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The Action Plan.
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The Second Progress Report : Commission 25/7/2007, COM(2007)447 final. http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2007:0447:FIN:EN:PDF
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Zimmerman R. Comparative Law and the Europeanization of Private Law. The Oxford handbook of comparative law. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2006.
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Harmonisation of European Contract Law: The State We Are In. The harmonisation of European contract law: implications for European private laws, business and legal practice. Oxford: Hart 2006:5–29.
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Weatherill, Vogenauer. The European Community’s Competence to Pursue the Harmonisation of Contract Law - an Empirical Contribution to the Debate. The harmonisation of European contract law: implications for European private laws, business and legal practice. Oxford: Hart 2006:105–48.
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Wagner G. The economics of harmonisation: The case of contract law. ERA Forum. 2002;3:77–87. doi: 10.1007/BF02817589
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Linarelli, John. Economics of Uniform Laws and Uniform Lawmaking, The. Wayne Law Review. 2002;48.