Towards a Chinese civil code : comparative and historical perspectives

✍ Scribed by Lei Chen, (Lawyer); C H van Rhee

• Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 576
• Series: Chinese and comparative law series, v. 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Currently, China is drafting its new Civil Code. Against this background, the Chinese legal community has shown a growing interest in various legal and legislative ideas from around the world. ''Towards a Chinese Civil Code'' aims at providing the necessary historical and comparative legal perspectives. The book addresses the following topics: property law, contract law, tort law and civil procedure

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Introduction / Lei Chen and Remco van Rhee --
The systematization of the Chinese civil code / Liming Wang --
From a supplementary legislator to a legitimate judicial lawmaker : on the role of the Supreme People's Court --
In developing the law in mainland China / Zhenbao Jin --
Factors ensuring the success or failure of draft codifications : some European experiences / Dirk Heirbaut --
Years of Chinese property law : looking back and thinking forward / Lei Chen --
Can European property law be codified? : towards the development of property notions / Sjef van Erp --
A comparative assessment of the provisions of the new Chinese property code on condominiums / Cornelius G. van der Merwe --
Conceptualizing the Chinese trust : some thoughts from Europe / Kenneth G.C. Reid --
A snapshot of Chinese contract law from an historical and comparative perspective / Shiyuan Han --
Codification in Europe and China : what makes contract law special? / Jan M. Smits --
Service contracts in Chinese contract law : an approach according to the European Draft Common Frame of Reference / Knut Benjamin Pissler --
Third party rights in contract : a case study on codifying and not codifying / Hector L. Macqueen --
The bases of liability in Chinese tort liability law-historical and comparative perspectives / Yan Zhu --
A common law-like civil law and a public face for private law : China's tort law in comparative perspective --
Jacques de lisle --
Uncertain causes : the Chinese tort liability law in comparative perspective / Ken Oliphant --
Chinese medical negligence law : how to distinguish and accommodate common law principles? / Xiju Zhao --
The great spill in the gulf and a sea of pure economic loss : reflections on the boundaries of civil liability / Vernon Valentine Palmer --
The position of judges in civil litigation in transitional China : judicial mediation and case management / Yulin Fu and Zhixun Cao --
The influence of the 1895 Austrian ZPO in the Netherlands / Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) van Rhee --
Judicial case management in France : tradition into modernity about some aspects of contemporary tendencies in French civil procedure / Loic Cadiet.