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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. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Comparative Law: Study of Similarities or Differences? in The Oxford handbook of comparative law 383–419 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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John C. Reitz. How to Do Comparative Law. The American Journal of Comparative Law 46, 617–636 (1998).
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Rodolfo Sacco. Legal Formants: A Dynamic Approach to Comparative Law (Installment I of II). The American Journal of Comparative Law 39, 1–34 (1991).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Chodosh, Hiram E. Comparing Comparisons: In Search of Methodology. Iowa Law Review 84, (1998).
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Roscoe Pound. WHAT MAY WE EXPECT FROM COMPARATIVE LAW? American Bar Association Journal 22, 56–60 (1936).
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Roscoe Pound. Comparative Law in Space and Time. The American Journal of Comparative Law 4, 70–84 (1955).
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Review by: Jonathan Hill. Comparative Law, Law Reform and Legal Theory. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 9, 101–115 (1989).
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Jansen. Comparative Law and Comparative Knowledge. in The Oxford handbook of comparative law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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Michaels. The Functional Method of Comparative Law. in The Oxford handbook of comparative law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Glenn. Comparative Legal Families and Comparative Legal Traditions Law. in The Oxford handbook of comparative law 421–440 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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Frankenberg, Gunter. Critical Comparisons: Re-thinking Comparative Law. Harvard International Law Journal 26, (1985).
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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. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. United States Contract Law. (Juris Pub, [Ardsley-on-Hudson, N.Y.], 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. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1987).
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Farnsworth, E. Allan & Sheppard, Steve. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2010).
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. (Aspen Publishers, New York, 2004).
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Fletcher, George P. & Sheppard, Steve. American Law in a Global Context: The Basics. (Oxford University Press, New York, 2004).
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Dawson, John Philip. The Oracles of the Law. (Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn, 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. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Robbers, Gerhard. An Introduction to German Law. vol. The legal systems of the European states (Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2006).
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Chapter 10: Law of Contracts. in Business transactions in Germany, Volume 1.
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Foster, Nigel G. & Sule, Satish. German Legal System and Laws. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 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. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Comparative Contract Law. in The Oxford handbook of comparative law 899–935 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Volume 7, Chapter 9: The Formation of Contracts. in International encyclopedia of comparative law, Volume 7 (Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen).
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Gordley, James & Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law: Readings, Cases, Materials. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract Law. vol. Palgrave Macmillan law masters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013).
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Lon L. Fuller. Consideration and Form. Columbia Law Review 41, 799–824 (1941).
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E. Allan Farnsworth. Promises to Make Gifts. The American Journal of Comparative Law 43, 359–378 (1995).
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Arthur T. von Mehren. Civil-Law Analogues to Consideration: An Exercise in Comparative Analysis. Harvard Law Review 72, 1009–1078 (1959).
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B. S. Markesinis. Cause and Consideration: A Study in Parallel. The Cambridge Law Journal 37, 53–75 (1978).
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Peel, Edwin & Treitel, G. H. The Law of Contract. (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2011).
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Gordley, James & Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law: Readings, Cases, Materials. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006).
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Peel, Edwin & Treitel, G. H. The Law of Contract. (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2011).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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E. Allan Farnsworth. Precontractual Liability and Preliminary Agreements: Fair Dealing and Failed Negotiations. Columbia Law Review 87, 217–294 (1987).
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Zimmermann, Reinhard & Whittaker, Simon. Good Faith in European Contract Law. vol. Cambridge studies in international and comparative law (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000).
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Gordley, James & Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law: Readings, Cases, Materials. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Alan Schwartz and Robert E. Scott. Precontractual Liability and Preliminary Agreements. Harvard Law Review 120, 661–707 (2007).
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Scott, Robert E. Hoffman v. Red Owl Stores and the Myth of Precontractual Reliance. Ohio State Law Journal 68, (2007).
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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 77, 401–449 (1964).
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Brownsword, Roger. Contract Law: Themes for the Twenty-First Century. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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Good Faith and Fault in Contract Law. (Oxford University Press, 1997). doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198265788.001.0001.
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract Law. vol. Palgrave Macmillan law masters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 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 63, 511–596 (2010).
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Peel, Edwin & Treitel, G. H. The Law of Contract. (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2011).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract Law. vol. Palgrave Macmillan law masters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013).
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Stefan. Interpretation of Contracts: Concluding Comparative Observations. in Contract terms vol. The Oxford-Norton Rose Law Colloquium 123–150 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007).
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. (Aspen Publishers, New York, 2004).
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Burrows, A. Construction and Rectification. in Contract terms vol. The Oxford-Norton Rose Law Colloquium 77–100 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract Law. vol. Palgrave Macmillan law masters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013).
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. (Aspen Publishers, New York, 2004).
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Beale, H. G. Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law. vol. Ius Commune casebooks for the common law of Europe (Hart, Oxford, 2010).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1998).
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Beale, H. G. Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law. vol. Ius Commune casebooks for the common law of Europe (Hart, Oxford, 2010).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract Law. vol. Palgrave Macmillan law masters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013).
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. (Aspen Publishers, New York, 2004).
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Gordley, James & Von Mehren, Arthur Taylor. An Introduction to the Comparative Study of Private Law: Readings, Cases, Materials. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006).
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Maxeiner, James R. Standard-Terms Contracting in the Global Electronic Age: European Alternatives. Yale Journal of International Law 28, (2003).
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Brownsword, Roger. Contract Law: Themes for the Twenty-First Century. (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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Peel, Edwin & Treitel, G. H. The Law of Contract. (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2011).
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Beale, H. G. Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law. vol. Ius Commune casebooks for the common law of Europe (Hart, Oxford, 2010).
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Beale, H. G. Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law. vol. Ius Commune casebooks for the common law of Europe (Hart, Oxford, 2010).
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Markesinis, B. S., Unberath, Hannes, & Johnston, Angus Charles. The German Law of Contract: A Comparative Treatise. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract Law. vol. Palgrave Macmillan law masters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013).
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Zweigert, Konrad & Kötz, Hein. Introduction to Comparative Law. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 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 11, 466–490 (1980).
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Anthony T. Kronman. Specific Performance. The University of Chicago Law Review 45, 351–382 (1978).
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Alan Schwartz. The Case for Specific Performance. The Yale Law Journal 89, 271–306 (1979).
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Beale, H. G. Cases, Materials and Text on Contract Law. vol. Ius Commune casebooks for the common law of Europe (Hart, Oxford, 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. (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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McKendrick, Ewan. Contract Law. vol. Palgrave Macmillan law masters (Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2013).
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Farnsworth, E. Allan. Contracts. (Aspen Publishers, New York, 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 69, (1994).
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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 3, 257–276 (2007).
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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, 332–349.
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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. et al. The Common Frame of Reference for European Private Law--Policy Choices and Codification Problems. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 28, 659–708 (2008).
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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. in The Oxford handbook of comparative law (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006).
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Harmonisation of European Contract Law: The State We Are In. in The harmonisation of European contract law: implications for European private laws, business and legal practice vol. Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law 5–29 (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Weatherill & Vogenauer. The European Community’s Competence to Pursue the Harmonisation of Contract Law - an Empirical Contribution to the Debate. in The harmonisation of European contract law: implications for European private laws, business and legal practice vol. Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law 105–148 (Hart, Oxford, 2006).
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Wagner, G. The economics of harmonisation: The case of contract law. ERA Forum 3, 77–87 (2002).
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Linarelli, John. Economics of Uniform Laws and Uniform Lawmaking, The. Wayne Law Review 48, (2002).