title: The textual layers of European contract law. Pravovedenie 64 (4): 422–457.
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metadata.value: Zimmermann, Reinhard
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-06-24T21:02:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-06-24T21:02:34Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Zimmermann, Reinhard. 2020. The textual layers of European contract law. Pravovedenie 64 (4): 422–457.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu25.2020.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/36975
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article traces the historical stages and main milestones of the process of harmonization
  and attempts to unify European contract law. Its first stage lasted from 1980 to 2015, marked
  by the appearance of many texts of a generalizing nature, designed to become the basis for the
  development of uniform contract law in the EU, and smoothly flowed into one another forming
  various conceptual layers of the emerging general contract law of Europe. The author identifies
  10 different layers of the main text prepared by various Commissions and Working Groups in the
  corpus of texts accumulated during the process of developing model rules of European contract
  law. Taking into account the different versions of these texts, there are also 18 textual layers, to
  which 13 important EU directives and at least 6 international conventions or draft conventions
  concerning the general part of contract law and the law of sale of goods or certain aspects of
  these areas should be added. It is also noted that there are competing national projects that are
  marginal in relation to the European mainstream, which should also be taken into account. Political
  and other reasons for the failure of certain drafts are explained. Their advantages, defects
  and features are considered. In the process of describing the history of the rise and fall of the
  idea of uniform contract law in Europe at the recently completed first stage of its implementation,
  the author analyzes the reasons for the failure of this process and in conclusion provides a
  brief description of the international research project in which he was a participant. This project
  led to the publication in the summer of 2018 of comprehensive “Commentaries on European
  Contract Laws”, which can give a “second wind” to the trends of harmonization of contract law
  in the EU and beyond.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Pravovedenie;Volume 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: European contract law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: harmonization of law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Europeanization of law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: private international law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: codification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: unification of law
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: acquis communautaire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The textual layers of European contract law. Pravovedenie 64 (4): 422–457.
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metadata.value: Article
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