Guiding themes and content of this book
Methodology
The law of contracts in a pre-commercial or agricultural survival society
Roman law
Medieval law
Guilds and the capitalist system and Marxist legal systems
The Latin notariat and contemporary contracts
The French 'code civil'; key politics and drafting method
The birth of a continental European commercial law; fair and commercial courts
The 'code de commerce' of 1808
Socio-economic context of Germany's civil and commercial codes
The codification of the German civil and commercial codes
Customs, usages and other sources of commercial contract law in German and other representative codes
Latin American codification and its all-important colonial background
Soviet commercial contract law
The peculiar meaning of Soviet and post-Soviet commercial contracts: an invertebrate legal system
Chinese imperial, mostly living-law of contracts
Contracts and litigation in imperial and Mao's China
Contemporary land contracts, third parties and judicial law making
Socio-economic and legal contexts and English commercial contracts
The socio-economic and legal contexts of U.S. commercial contracts
Formation of contracts: ceremony or conduct?
Two guiding principles for the interpretation of commercial contracts: good faith and reasonableness
Drafting commercial practices and the growth of commercial contract law
Brief overview of commercial trial procedure
Pre-contractual liability: culpa in contrahendo
Excuses for non-performance of contracts
Extrajudicial remedies and the remedy of specific performance
Judicial and extrajudicial termination
Damages for breach of warranty in U.S. economic analysis influenced law.