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Principles Versus Rules In The Emerging European Contract Law, Pietro Sirena, Yehuda Adar Dec 2014

Principles Versus Rules In The Emerging European Contract Law, Pietro Sirena, Yehuda Adar

Pietro Sirena

The authors propose to take principles "seriously", by understanding them in the framework of the well-known Dworkinian theory of law. As showed by their constitutional link to human rights and fundamental freedoms, "principles" would therefore be opposed to "rules". At the European level particularly, principles would encapsulate the common core of the laws of the Member States and (especially with regard to subsidiarity and proportionality) would set the conditions for it to be applied by the Court of Justice. "Principles" would promote the goal of European legal unity by reinforcing what national laws already have in common, while "rules" enacted …


La Dialettica Di Principî E Regole Nel Diritto Europeo Deicontratti: Dal Pecl Al Cesl, E Oltre, Pietro Sirena Nov 2013

La Dialettica Di Principî E Regole Nel Diritto Europeo Deicontratti: Dal Pecl Al Cesl, E Oltre, Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

The article aims at challenging the current definitions of the principles of law from the point of view of the European legal system. Its multi-levelled structure and its constitutional architecture, strongly based on the subsidiarity of the European Union, call for a new understanding of its principles. The authors of the article assume that the principles of European law are to be identified with the common core of the national legal orders, i.e. with the ius commune Europaeum, and with the constitutional condition of its application by the European Court of Justice. Such principles should be obtained through the critical …


Il Contratto Alieno Del Diritto Comune Europeo Della Vendita (Cesl), Pietro Sirena Oct 2013

Il Contratto Alieno Del Diritto Comune Europeo Della Vendita (Cesl), Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

No abstract provided.


Principles And Rules In The Emerging European Contract Law: From The Pecl To The Cesl, And Beyond, Pietro Sirena Dec 2012

Principles And Rules In The Emerging European Contract Law: From The Pecl To The Cesl, And Beyond, Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

Legal principles play an important role in any system of law. Following the ECJ, the Treaties of the European Union have embraced the concept of "principles of law", mainly as a means to guarantee individual and human rights in public and constitutional law. More recently, however, the ECJ has come to recognize as "general principles" private law and contract law norms and values. Furthermore, the notion of "principles" has played a key-role in impressive unification works which are aimed at promoting harmonization of national laws in Europe, such as the PECL and the DCFR. The proposed CESL also opens with …


La Prospettiva Dei Rimedi Nel Diritto Privato Europeo, Pietro Sirena Apr 2012

La Prospettiva Dei Rimedi Nel Diritto Privato Europeo, Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

No abstract provided.


Towards A European Law Of Unjustified Enrichment, Pietro Sirena Dec 2011

Towards A European Law Of Unjustified Enrichment, Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

Though historically recent, a European law of unjustified enrichment is already existing and embraces both contractual and extra-contractual restitution, which however are governed by different rules and shall not therefore lose their own specificity. In contractual restitution, the remedy is based on the general principle of unjustified enrichment (both in civil and in common law by now) and has a very large field of application: unlike the German model followed by the DCFR, distinguishing between avoided and terminated contracts is not necessary from the point of view of restitution of performances rendered by the parties (as demonstrated by the CESL), …


The Rules About Restitution In The Proposal On A Common European Sales Law, Pietro Sirena Dec 2010

The Rules About Restitution In The Proposal On A Common European Sales Law, Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

Under the point of view of restitution law, the proposal on a CESL, part VII, draws a parallel between terminated and avoided contracts, which is much more convincing than the binary model followed by the DCFR. It is, however, necessary to make this set of rules consistent with the general principle of unjustified enrichment, which according to European law represents its underpinning. In the article, a series of corrections are suggested to reach that goal.


La Restituzione Del'arricchimento E Il Risarcimento Del Danno, Pietro Sirena Dec 2008

La Restituzione Del'arricchimento E Il Risarcimento Del Danno, Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

No abstract provided.


La "Portabilità Del Mutuo" Bancario O Finanziario, Pietro Sirena Dec 2007

La "Portabilità Del Mutuo" Bancario O Finanziario, Pietro Sirena

Pietro Sirena

No abstract provided.