PRECONTRACTUAL LIABILITY IN EUROPEAN PRIVATE LAW. Ed by John Cartwright and Martijn Hesselink Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (www.cambridge.org), The Common Core of European Private Law, 2008. xxvi + 508 pp. ISBN 9780521516013. £85.
| Author | Greg Gordon |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2010.0313 |
| Published date | 01 September 2010 |
| Date | 01 September 2010 |
| Pages | 526-527 |
This book, part of the Trento project (based in Turin since 2007), is the ninth volume in the Common Core of European Private Law Series. In the preface, the editors note that their work on the topic, and that of their rapporteurs, has been ongoing (to a greater or lesser extent) for some twelve years. That is a maturation period more commonly associated with the production of malt whisky than a co-authored volume, but from it has emerged a book of the very highest quality.
The work is divided into five parts. The editors’ introduction (discussed further below) is followed by the thirteen case-studies which comprise the bulk of the book. Each takes the form of a short hypothetical scenario which ends by asking what liability, if any, has been incurred, a question answered in turn by the national reporters of each of the sixteen jurisdictions involved in the study. Each case-study concludes with a set of comparative observations in which the editors note the points of convergence and divergence which emerge...
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