ENGLISH

The European Civil Code: The Way Forward

By Hugh Collins

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521885809, 9780521885805
LCC
KJE995 .C65 2008
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1403671 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy
Edition
1
Pages
288\290
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Юридические дисциплины;Европейское право

Description

Hugh Collins argues that the European Union should develop a civil code to provide uniform rules for contracts, property rights and protection against civil wrongs, thus drawing together the differing national traditions with respect to the detailed regulation of civil society. The benefits of such a code would lie not so much in facilitating cross border trade, but in establishing foundations for a denser network of transnational relations of civil society, which in turn would help to overcome the present popular resistance to effective and functional political institutions at a European level. These principled foundations for a more inclusive and less balkanised civil society in Europe also provide elements of a required European social model that offers necessary safeguards for consumers, workers and disadvantaged groups against the pressures of market forces in an increasingly global economic system.

Similar books