Oxford LibGuides: Comparative law: study & application: Eur contract & sales law

Harmonization of European contract & sales law

Since at least 1989, the European Parliament has been reaching resolutions on the desirability and need to bring together the private laws of the member states via harmonization and/or codification. (OJ 1989 C 158, 26.6.1989, p. 400, OJ 1994 C 205, 25.7.1994, p. 518.)

Contract (including sales law) has been a primary focus as befits a trading bloc.

European Review of Contract Law
Remote access requires Oxford SSO.
Principles of European Contract Law
Free resource By the Commission on European Contract Law. aka Lando Commission
UK Government's Consultation and Response Documents 2012
Pdfs available from Justice website.
EU's Green Paper on policy options for progress towards a European Contract Law for consumers and businesses 2010
Download pdf from Europa website.[65 KB] COM(2010) 348, July 2010
Accademia dei Giusprivatisti europei (AEPL) (Academy of European Private Lawyers)
Free resource. AEPL was set up in 1992 in Pavia, Italy to "contribute, through scientific research, to the unification and the future interpretation and enforcement of private law in Europe, in the spirit of the community conventions”, and also “to promote the development of a legal culture leading to European unification”. (Art.1 Statute of the Academy)
It has since published (and is partly through the revision of) a European Contract Code. This is available free in various European languages from the left hand column of the home page of the Academy's website.
2007 CFR Common frame of reference resolution
Open access.European Parliament resolution of 12 December 2007 on European contract law

Commentaries on European Contract Laws by Nils Jansen (Editor); Reinhard Zimmermann (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780198790693
Publication Date: 2018
Print copy is at Euro Comm 510 J35.3b
European contract law by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Reiner Schulze, Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Fryderyk Zoll
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9783848745326
Publication Date: 2nd edn 2018
Print copy is at Euro Comm 510 S391a2
Uniform rules for European contract law? : a critical assessment by edited by Francisco de Elizalde.
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 1509916318
Publication Date: 2018

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