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The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law

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Editors:
  1. Verica Trstenjak

    1. European Law Unit, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

  2. Petra Weingerl

    1. Faculty of Law & University College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

  • Offers valuable comaparative insights into the influence of basic rights and human rights in private law
  • Includes analyses of recent judicial and legislative changes and proposals in different countries Brings together a group of renowned scholars on a much-debated issue
  • Focuses on the influence of international courts and de lege ferenda proposals

Part of the book series: Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law (GSCL, volume 15)

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This book provides a comparative perspective on one of the most intriguing developments in law: the influence of basic rights and human rights in private law. It analyzes the application of basic rights and human rights, which are traditionally understood as public law rights, in private law, and discusses the related spillover effects and changing perspectives in legal doctrine and practice. It provides examples where basic rights and human rights influence judicial reasoning and lead to changes of legislation in contract law, tort law, property law, family law, and copyright law. Providing both context and background analysis for any critical examination of the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in private law, the book contributes to the current debate on an important issue that deserves the attention of legal practitioners, scholars, judges and others involved in the developments in a variety of the world’s jurisdictions.

This book is based on the General Report and national reports commissioned by the International Academy of Comparative Law and written for the XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna, Austria, in the summer of 2014.

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. General Report

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. General Report: The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law

      • Verica Trstenjak
      Pages 3-61

  3. National Reports

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Le rayonnement des droits de l’Homme et des droits fondamentaux en droit privé argentin

      • Augusto César Belluscio
      Pages 65-98

    3. Human Rights and Private Law in Austria

      • Stefan Perner, Moritz Zoppel
      Pages 99-114

    4. Human Rights in Private Law: The Brazilian Experience

      • Gustavo Tepedino
      Pages 115-141

    5. Le rayonnement des droits de la personne en droit privé québécois: Que de chemin parcouru… mais que de chemin à parcourir!

      • Mélanie Samson, Louise Langevin
      Pages 143-186

    6. New Czech Civil Law in the Light of Human Rights

      • Jan Hurdík, Markéta Selucká
      Pages 187-198

    7. The Role of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for the Development of Croatian Private Law

      • Tatjana Josipović
      Pages 199-246

    8. Quelle influence pour les droit des l’homme et les droits fondamentaux en droit privé français?

      • Geneviève Helleringer, Kiteri Garcia
      Pages 247-294

    9. The Impact of Human Rights and Basic Rights in German Private Law

      • Dirk Looschelders, Mark Makowsky
      Pages 295-317

    10. The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights on Greek Private Law

      • Christina Deliyanni-Dimitrakou, Christina M. Akrivopoulou
      Pages 319-389

    11. Protection of Fundamental Rights by Private Law: Hungary

      • Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz
      Pages 391-419

    12. The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Italian Private Law: Strategies of ‘Constitutionalisation’ in the Courts Practice

      • Emanuela Navarretta, Elena Bargelli
      Pages 421-437

    13. Les Droits de l’Homme en Droit Privé au Japon – Influences Indirectes sauf une Exception

      • Hiroki Hatano
      Pages 439-452

    14. The Impact of Fundamental Rights on Dutch Private Law: Revolution or Evolution?

      • Olha O. Cherednychenko
      Pages 453-471

    15. The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Norway

      • Kåre Lilleholt
      Pages 473-482

    16. Human Rights and Private Law in Portugal

      • Jorge Sinde Monteiro, André Dias Pereira, Alexandre L. D. Pereira, Geraldo Ribeiro, Luís Fábrica, Mónica Jardim et al.
      Pages 483-533

    17. The Influence of Fundamental Rights in Slovene Private Law

      • Petra Weingerl
      Pages 535-557
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“This book presents a comparative perspective on the influence of basic rights and human rights (fundamental rights) in private law across 18 national jurisdictions worldwide and within the legal order of the European Union. … The book offers a valuable contribution to this debate. Within the selected fields of private law, it provides broad and rich insight into various approaches in 18 jurisdictions from all over the world.” (Mirjam De Mol, Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht RabelsZ, Vol. 82 (02), 2018)

Editors and Affiliations

  • European Law Unit, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Verica Trstenjak

  • Faculty of Law & University College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Petra Weingerl

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