Embedding the Principles of Life Time Contracts
A Research Agenda for Contract Law
Will be published approx. on 13. February 2018
Book
Hardback
344 pages
978-94-6236-773-9 (ISBN)
Description
Following the success of EuSoCo's book, Life Time Contracts: Social Long-term Contracts in Labour, Tenancy and Consumer Credit Law (Eleven International Publishing, 2014), in which EuSoCo laid out sixteen Principles of Life Time Contracts to apply whenever individuals seek to form or continue such social long-term relationships, in this book, we expand thereon, making the Principles more accessible and useful to practitioners, judges, and even policy makers.
As society depends on individuals being able to meet certain basic necessities, the need to elaborate common principles to preserve and protect Life Time Contracts remains crucial. In this book we focus on how practitioners, judges, and policy makers can embed these sixteen Principles in the existing legal framework.
To aid them in this task, we expand on the way these Principles can be used to interpret and inform general contract law, with a special emphasis on employment, consumer credit, and residential tenancy contracts. We pay particular attention to those areas affected by the digital economy and by regulatory measures introduced in response to the economic crisis and recession.
As society depends on individuals being able to meet certain basic necessities, the need to elaborate common principles to preserve and protect Life Time Contracts remains crucial. In this book we focus on how practitioners, judges, and policy makers can embed these sixteen Principles in the existing legal framework.
To aid them in this task, we expand on the way these Principles can be used to interpret and inform general contract law, with a special emphasis on employment, consumer credit, and residential tenancy contracts. We pay particular attention to those areas affected by the digital economy and by regulatory measures introduced in response to the economic crisis and recession.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Utrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 165 mm
Weight
367 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-6236-773-9 (9789462367739)
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Person
Luca Ratti is Associate Professor of European and Comparative Labour Law at the University of Luxembourg and an Internal Fellow of the Robert Schuman Institute of European Affairs, Luxembourg. After a period as a visiting post-doc in the United Kingdom, from 2012 through 2015 he served as Senior Researcher and Adjunct Professor in Labour Law and Social Security at the University of Bologna, from which he obtained his Doctorate in 2007.
Content
Part I The Idea of Life Time Contracts and General Contract Law; 1 The Contractual Concept of Life Time Contracts under Scrutiny; 2 Life Time Contracts and General Contract Law in the EU: Pour un Droit Commun des Life Time Contracts; 3 Life Time Contracts and Contracts in General: Fundamental Rights of the Person and Their Family, Fair Price, Termination; 4 Do Some Business Relationships Fall within the Scope of the Principles of Life Time Contracts?; 5 Comparing Rules on Change of Circumstances with the Principles of Life Time Contracts; 6 Regulating 'Imprévision' in the New French Contract Law Reform and Life Time Contracts; 7 Le Rôle de la Formation dans le Cadre des Contrats à Temps Essentiels à l'Existence de la Personne; 8 Prenuptial and Tenancy Agreements as Relational Contracts; Part II A Spectrum of Problems to Approach the Principles of Life Time Contracts; 9 Collective Responses to the New Economy in US Labor Law; 10 Back to the Roots: Re-embedding Labour Law into Civil Law to Prevent Evasion of Labour Law; 11 Plateformes, Crowdsourcing, et Principes des Life Time Contracts; 12 The Protection of the Primary Residence of Mortgage Debtors: Embedding the 'Basic Needs' Principle in Mortgage Repossession Proceedings; 13 Home Mortgage Loans as Life Time Contracts; 14 The Collective Dimension of Life Time Contracts: A Labour Law Perspective; 15 Postface: Regards d'un Civiliste Français