The Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts - Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision
Editors: Başoğlu, Başak (Ed.)
Free Preview- Provides a comprehensive comparative overview on the legal consequences of global financial crises on the binding force of contracts
- Explores the problem from a variety of theoretical bases and concise analysis of the law of 19 jurisdiction
- Focuses on possible available remedies, namely renegotiation, rescission and revision
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This book is about one of the most controversial dilemmas of contract law: whether or not the unexpected change of circumstances due to the effects of financial crises may under certain conditions be taken into account.
Growing interconnectedness of global economies facilitates the spread of the effects of the financial crises. Financial crises cause severe difficulties for persons to fulfill their contractual obligations. During the financial crises, performance of contractual obligations may become excessively onerous or may cause an excessive loss for one of the contracting parties and consequently destroy the contractual equilibrium and legitimate the governmental interventions.
Uncomfortable economic climate leads to one of the most controversial dilemmas of the contract law: whether the binding force of the contract is absolute or not. In other words, unstable economic circumstances impose the need to devote special attention to review and perhaps to narrow the binding nature of a contract. Principle of good faith and fair dealing motivate a variety of theoretical bases in order to overcome the legal consequences of financial crises.
In this book, all these theoretical bases are analyzed with special focus on the available remedies, namely renegotiation, rescission or revision and the circumstances which enables the revocation of these remedies.
The book collects the 19 national reports and the general report originally presented in the session regarding the Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision during the XIXth congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law, held in Vienna, July 2014.
- Table of contents (19 chapters)
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General Report on the Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision
Pages 3-29
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From Crisis to Crisis: Weakness of Contracts in Argentina
Pages 33-51
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Keeping the Balance: The Effects of Financial Crises on Contracts Under Brazilian Law
Pages 53-58
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Les effets exercés par les crises financières sur la force obligatoire des contrats: certitudes et incertitudes du droit québécois en matière d’imprévision
Pages 59-81
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Can Financial Crisis Lead to the Application of the Institute of Changed Circumstances Under Croatian Law?
Pages 83-99
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts - Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision
- Editors
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- Başak Başoğlu
- Series Title
- Ius Comparatum - Global Studies in Comparative Law
- Series Volume
- 17
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-27256-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-27256-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-27254-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-80102-5
- Series ISSN
- 2214-6881
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIX, 333
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations
- Topics