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The Continued Resonance And Challenge Of The “Ius Commune” In Modern European Contract Law, Martin J. Doris
The Continued Resonance And Challenge Of The “Ius Commune” In Modern European Contract Law, Martin J. Doris
International Journal of Legal Information
The need for a more consistent and coherent European contract law is a current priority of the EC institutions. Despite decades of pointillistic legal harmonization, cross border transactions within the Internal market of the European Union continue to take place in the shadow of divergent procedural and substantive law rules, differing legal cultures and significant linguistic diversities. Whilst national contract law systems function more or less efficiently internally, it is their partial non-compatibility with other Member States’ private laws that provokes isolated distortions on the market. As a consequence, the European Commission has presented its ‘Common Frame of Reference’ research …