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Comparative Contract Law

Code Cours
1920-FDL-LAW-EN-2010
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Langue d'enseignement
FR, EN
Ce cours apparaît dans les formation(s) suivante(s)
Responsable(s)
Paola MONACO
Période
S3

Présentation

Prérequis

The student should remember the course took in first year of Great Principles of British Law, and remember the French Contract Law courses in second year.

Présentation

- Why comparative law?



  • Comparative legal systems

  • Legal Formants


- Contracts



  • Sources

  • Main principles

  • Formation of a contract

    • Agreement

    • Offer

    • Termination of an offer

    • Acceptance



  • Conclusion of a contract and termination

  • Consideration

  • Circumventing

  • Causa


- Legal Capacity



  • Conflicting interests

  • Formalities


- Content of the contract



  • Interpretation

  • Default rules

  • Mandatory rules

    • Mandatory rules of substansive contract law

    • Prohibited contracts

    • Unfair Terms




- Contractual remedies



  • Specific performance

  • Damages

  • Termination

Modalités

Modalités d'enseignement

25% Moot Court

25 % Participation

50% Written final exam

Évaluation
Examen : coeff. 1

Ressources

Bibliographie

<b>Course Materials:</b>|| Slides &amp; Class notes|| Jan M. Smits, Contract Law: A Comparative Introduction (Edward Elgar, 2014)|| E. Allan Farnsworth, Comparative Contract Law, in M. Reimann and R. Zimmermann (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Law 899 (2009)