Law

Causa contractus

Auf der Suche nach den Bedingungen der Wirksamkeit des vertraglichen Willens / Alla ricerca delle condizioni di efficacia della volontà contrattuale / À la recherche des conditions de l'efficacité de la volonté contractuelle
Herausgegeben von Gregor Albers, Francesco Paolo Patti and Dorothée Perrouin-Verbe

[Causa Contractus. In Search of the Conditions for the Effectiveness of Contractual Intent.]

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European legal tradition uses the notion of causa or la cause both to identify a contract's underlying purpose and to address the reasons for its enforcement. By combining a historical analysis of the causa doctrine with comparative studies of various national systems, this volume seeks to promote a common understanding of Europe's legal heritage and to present proposals for its further development. Contributions are in German, French, Italian and English, summarized by introductory chapters in English.
European legal tradition uses the notion of causa or la cause both to identify a contract's underlying purpose and to address the reasons for its enforcement. By combining a historical analysis of the causa doctrine with comparative studies of various national systems, this volume seeks to promote a common understanding of Europe's legal heritage and to present proposals for its further development. Contributions are in German, French, Italian and English, summarized by introductory chapters in English.
Survey of contents
Gregor Albers: Why Cause of Contract again, and how?
Chapter 1: History of a Notion
Gregor Albers: History of a Notion – Tommaso dalla Massara: Die causa des Vertrages im Denken des Aristo: zu den Ursprüngen einer Idee – Arnaud Paturet: La cause contractuelle aux confins de l’anthropologie et du droit – Martin Schermaier: Die Rolle der causa bei der Überwindung des Typenzwangs durch die mittelalterlichen Juristen – Klaus Kowalski: Die causa des Vertrags im Naturrecht der frühen Neuzeit – Andrea Maria Garofalo: Itinerari della causa dal Code civil del 1804 al Codice civile del 1942 – Francesca Bartolini: La causa del contratto dal Codice civile del 1942 ai giorni nostri – Gregor Albers: Die causa vom Code civil zum BGB. Zuwendungen tragen statt Verpflichtungen begründen – Birke Häcker: Causa und Consideration – ein historischer Dialog
Chapter 2: Conclusion of Contract
Dorothée Perrouin-Verbe: Causa and the Requirements of Valid Contracts – Elena Giannozzi: Le caractère contraignant des contrats en droit romain classique – Samuel Fulli-Lemaire: Le rôle passé de la cause au stade de la formation du contrat – Ralf Treibmann: Voraussetzungen der Wirksamkeit von Verträgen nach deutschem Recht – Andrea Maria Garofalo/Francesco Paolo Patti: La causa tra fisiologia e patologia del contratto – Kristin Boosfeld: Äquivalente der causa beim Vertragsschluss. Ein Blick ins englische Recht
Chapter 3: Unexpected Circumstances
Francesco Paolo Patti: Causa and Unexpected Circumstances – Manuel Grasso: Obligationes contractae e sopravvenienze nel diritto romano – Dorothée Perrouin-Verbe: L’évènement imprévu et le bouleversement de l‘équilibre contractuel en droit francais – Gregor Albers: Der Einfluss unerwarteter Ereignisse auf den Vertrag nach deutschem Recht – Francesco Paolo Patti: Sopravvenienze e causa concreta nel diritto italiano – Francesco Mezzanotte: Lo scopo contrattuale nella doctrine of frustration
Chapter 4: Future of causa
Gregor Albers/Francesco Paolo Patti/Dorothée Perrouin-Verbe: The Future of causa – Thomas Genicon: L’avenir de la cause en droit français des contrats – Elena Bargelli: Il futuro della causa nel diritto italiano – Horst Ehmann: Zu den Arten der Rechtsgründe von Leistungen und Leistungsversprechen – Simon Whittaker: “Contractual Purpose” in English Contract Law
Authors/Editors

Gregor Albers is assistant professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Roman Law and Comparative Legal History at the University of Bonn.

Francesco Paolo Patti is associate professor at the University Bocconi of Milan.

Dorothée Perrouin-Verbe is a PhD candidate at the University of Paris II-Panthéon-Assas and teaches at CY Cergy Paris Université.

Reviews

The following reviews are known:

In: Revista da Faculdada de Direito da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon Law Review) — 64 (2023), 921–938 (Joao de Oliveira Geraldes)
In: Anuario de Derecho Civil — 76 (2023), 651–657 (Bruno Rodríguez-Rosado)