THE HEW PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW OF CONTRACT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITYPDF电子书下载

1 Introduction 1

PART Ⅰ 7

2 Pre-existing National English Private International Rules of Contract 9

PART Ⅱ 27

3 General Impact of EEC's Contractual Obligations Convention 31

PART Ⅲ Commentary on Individual Provisions of the 1990 Act and Convention 89

4 Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 91

5 Preamble to the Rome Convention 95

6 Article 1: Scope of the Convention 97

7 Article 2: Universal Application of the Convention 143

8 Article 3: Agreement on Choice of Law 147

9 Article 4: Applicable Law in the Absence of Choice 171

10 Article 5: Consumer Contracts 203

11 Article 6: Individual Employment Contracts 221

12 Article 7: Mandatory Rules of Contract Law 239

13 Article 8: Material Validity of Contracts 269

14 Article 9: Formal Validity of Contracts 281

15 Article 10: Scope of Applicable Law 297

16 Article 11: Contractual Incapacity 311

17 Article 12: Voluntary Assignment of Rights 321

18 Article 13: Subrogation to Contractual Rights 327

19 Article 14: Presumptions, Burden and Modes of Proof 331

20 Article 15: Inapplicability of Renvoi 343

21 Article 16: Ordre Public Exception to Applicable Law 345

22 Article 17: No Retrospective Effect of the Convention 351

23 Article 18: Uniform Interpretation of the Convention 355

24 Article 19: Application of Convention to and in Composite States 359

25 Article 20: Precedence of Community Law over the Convention 365

26 Article 21: Precedence of Other International Conventions over the Convention 367

27 Article 22: Reservations to Full Application of the Convention 371

28 Article 23: Precedence and Procedure for New National Choice of Law Rules 373

29 Article 24: Procedure for New Multilateral Conflicts Conventions 379

30 Article 25: Procedure in Respect of Certain International Agreements 385

31 Article 26: Revision of the Convention 389

32 Article 27: Extensions of the Convention to European Territories of Contracting States 391

33 Article 28: Ratification of the Convention 395

34 Article 29: Entry into Force of the Convention 397

35 Article 30: Duration of the Convention 399

36 Article 31: Notifications in Respect of the Convention 403

37 Article 32: Integration of Annexed Protocol 405

38 Article 33: Authentic Texts of the Convention 407

39 Annexed Protocol 409

40 Schedule 2 1990 Act: The Luxembourg Convention on Greek Accession 411

41 Schedule 3 1990 Act: The First Brussels Interpretation Protocol 415

42 Schedule 4 1990 Act: Revisions to Other Enactments 431

PART Ⅳ 437

43 Comparison of Convention and Pre-existing English Private International Rules of Contract 439

PART Ⅴ 447

44 Conclusions 449

Appendix A The Contracts (Applicable Law) Act 1990 459

Appendix B Some Authentic Foreign Texts of the Rome Contracts Convention 477

Select Bibliography 507

Index 511