title: Characteristics of modern European contract law
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metadata.value: Schulze, Reiner
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-12-13T14:34:34Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-12-13T14:34:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Schulze, Reiner. 2020. Characteristics of modern European contract law. Pravovedenie 64 (2): 201–221.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2020.201
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33871
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: European contract law has recently entered a new phase in its development as a result of the
  introduction of new legislation responding to the challenges posed by digitalization and, in particular,
  the supply of digital content and digital services. Whereas the new legislation contains several
  characteristics which reflect a continuity of concepts already well-established in European
  contract law, several innovations have been necessary in order to take account of the specific
  features of these digital products and the manner in which they are supplied. The legislative responses
  will play a pivotal role not only in consumer protection but for European contract law. This
  article will focus in particular on two new “twin” directives: Directive 2019/770 on certain aspects
  concerning contracts for the supply of digital content and digital services and Directive 2019/771
  on certain aspects concerning contracts for the sale of goods. In examining the core features of
  these two Directives, this article will consider how their new and innovative characteristics which
  respond to the challenges of digitalization can contribute towards a modern European contract
  law. These new approaches in European legislation clearly show that the further development of
  contract law is facing challenges that go beyond this area of law. The modernization of contract
  law therefore raises questions that must ultimately be directed at clarifying the overarching features
  of European private law as a whole. Finally, the relationship between the law of obligations,
  on the one hand, and property law or intellectual property law, on the other, and possibly a new
  definition of the boundaries and interaction between these areas, can be considered if contract
  law recognizes data as an asset, but it will not be able to guarantee sufficient protection of these
  assets with its instruments alone. Embedding the new concepts, principles and rules in the field
  of contract law in the development of private law as a whole, in line with the changes in the “digital
  age”, will therefore remain a major task for legislation and legal doctrine in the EU and beyond.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 64; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contract law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: contract terms
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: consumer law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: consumer protection
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: data
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: digitalization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: European Union law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Characteristics of modern European contract law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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