Publisher's Synopsis
This book contains the plenary reports and a selection of working group reports from a seminar on critical contract law held near Helsinki in May 1992. The purpose of the seminar was to bring together the ongoing discourses on the welfare state and its crisis, and on new alternative paradigms of contracts law with the discourse on international harmonization of contract law, especially in Europe and within the European Communities. The theory of contract is related to other social theories such as the theory of a risk society. In the book is discussed the possibilities of socially oriented perspectives of contract law in the next millennium. It contains articles written by prominent scholars from England, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Finland amongst others. - - Perspectives of Critical Criminal Law provides an up-to-date account of the international debate surrounding contract theory and places special emphasis on the changes in modern contract thinking and the future perspectives of contract law. Perhaps most importantly, it provides a comparative approach which transcends national peculiarities. This book is an important resource for instructors and researchers in contract law, private law, comparative law and general legal theory.
