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European Contract Law, volume one, by Hein Kötz and Axel Flessner translated by Tony Weir. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998, 286 pp (hardback £50.00)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

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Copyright © Society of Legal Scholars 1999

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References

1 Preface, p v.

2 Preface, p v.

3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). See ch 3 of An Introduction to Comparative Law, entitled ‘The Method of Comparative Law at p 38, where the authors state that ’the basic methodological principle of all comparative law is that of functionality.

4 See eg pp 20–21.

5 See eg p 25.

6 Seep 21.

7 See generally G Samuel The Foundations of Legal Reasoning (Antwerp: Maklu, 1994).

8 See pp 23–24.

9 See pp 246–249.

10 See Zweigert and Kötz above n 3.

11 (1992) 2 AC 128.

12 See p 41.

13 See S Weatherill ‘Prospects for the development of European Private Law Through Europeanisation in the European Court - The Case of the Directive on Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts in (1995) 3 European Rev Private Law 307–328 at 313.

14 See Preface at p v.

15 … despite all these claims that the comparatist be open-minded and think supra-nationally, the civil and common law still rule over the comparatists world. G. Frankenberg: Critical Comparisons: Rethinking Comparative law in (1985) Harvard International LJ vol 26. no 2 at 442.