Simon Whittaker
Biographic Data
| ID | 5579120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Whittaker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Whittaker |
| SIGNATURE | WHITTAKER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor of European Comparative Law University of Oxford and Fellow of St. John's College Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Proposed ‘ C ommon E uropean S ales L aw’
The E uropean C ommission's P roposal for a R egulation on a C ommon E uropean S ales L aw (‘ CESL ’) seeks to create a E uropean scheme of contract law available for parties to choose to govern cross‐border contracts for the sale of goods, supply of ‘digital content,’ and for the supply of related services. This article explains the background to the P roposal, sketches out the purposes and scope of the CESL , and considers and criticises its le…
Unfair Contract Terms, Unfair Prices and Bank Charges
This note considers how the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive 1993 draws the line between the review of unfair contract terms and the review of unfair contracts (and, in particular, unfair prices) in the context of two cases concerning bank charges: Abbey Life plc v The Office of Fair Trading (2009) (the Bank Charges case) in the UK Supreme Court and Case 484/08 Caja de Madrid (2010) in the European Court of Justice. The note explains …
Reforming the French Law of Obligations
The 2005 Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription, also dubbed the Avant-projet Catala, suggests the most far-reaching reform of the French Civil code since it came into force in 1804. It reviews central aspects of contract law, the law of delict and the law of unjustified enrichment. There is currently a very lively debate in France as to the merits or the demerits of both the particular draft provisions and the gen…
How Does French Law Deal with Anticipatory Breaches of Contract
It is clear that there is no doctrine of anticipatory breach as such in French contract law. 1 How then does it deal with the facts which in English law give rise to the application of this doctrine? In answering this question, it is helpful to bear in mind that the two situations which English law treats as anticipatory breach are where a party declares in words or demonstrates by conduct his unwillingness to perform and where a party has “disab…
How Does French Law Deal with Anticipatory Breaches of Contract
It is clear that there is no doctrine of anticipatory breach as such in French contract law. 1 How then does it deal with the facts which in English law give rise to the application of this doctrine? In answering this question, it is helpful to bear in mind that the two situations which English law treats as anticipatory breach are where a party declares in words or demonstrates by conduct his unwillingness to perform and where a party has “disab…
How Does French Law Deal with Anticipatory Breaches of Contract
It is clear that there is no doctrine of anticipatory breach as such in French contract law. 1 How then does it deal with the facts which in English law give rise to the application of this doctrine? In answering this question, it is helpful to bear in mind that the two situations which English law treats as anticipatory breach are where a party declares in words or demonstrates by conduct his unwillingness to perform and where a party has “disab…
Reforming the French Law of Obligations
The 2005 Avant-projet de réforme du droit des obligations et de la prescription, also dubbed the Avant-projet Catala, suggests the most far-reaching reform of the French Civil code since it came into force in 1804. It reviews central aspects of contract law, the law of delict and the law of unjustified enrichment. There is currently a very lively debate in France as to the merits or the demerits of both the particular draft provisions and the gen…
Unfair Contract Terms, Unfair Prices and Bank Charges
This note considers how the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive 1993 draws the line between the review of unfair contract terms and the review of unfair contracts (and, in particular, unfair prices) in the context of two cases concerning bank charges: Abbey Life plc v The Office of Fair Trading (2009) (the Bank Charges case) in the UK Supreme Court and Case 484/08 Caja de Madrid (2010) in the European Court of Justice. The note explains …
The Proposed ‘ C ommon E uropean S ales L aw’
The E uropean C ommission's P roposal for a R egulation on a C ommon E uropean S ales L aw (‘ CESL ’) seeks to create a E uropean scheme of contract law available for parties to choose to govern cross‐border contracts for the sale of goods, supply of ‘digital content,’ and for the supply of related services. This article explains the background to the P roposal, sketches out the purposes and scope of the CESL , and considers and criticises its le…
European and International Contract Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Legal principles and applications (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Breach of contract (1 work)