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The Institute for Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School presents
European Contract Law: A Law-and-Economics PerspectiveFriday-Saturday, April 27-28, 2012 University of Chicago Law School 1111 E. 60th Street, Chicago, Il 60615 - Room V
Organized by Omri Ben-ShaharFrank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law and Kearny Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Chicago
This event is free and open to the public. No response is required but seating is limited. For special assistance or needs, please contract Marjorie Holme at 773.702.0220 or [email protected]. For more details about this conference, please visit http://www.law.uchicago.edu/events/europeancontractlaw
Partic i Pants will include :
Thomas Ackermann (Munich)
Douglas Baird (Chicago)
Omri Ben-Shahar (Chicago)
Lisa Bernstein (Chicago)
Fabrizio Cafaggi (European University, Florence)
Horst Eidenmüller (Munich)
Richard Epstein (Chicago and NYU)
Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson (Paris 2)
Fernando Gomez (Pampeu Fabra, Barcelona)
Stefan Grundmann (Berlin)
William Hubbard (Chicago)
Saul Levmore (Chicago)
Ariel Porat (Chicago and Tel-Aviv)
Eric Posner (Chicago)
Richard Posner (Chicago)
Jan Smits (Maastricht)
Gerhard Wagner (Bonn)
Simon Whittaker (Oxford)
The movement to harmonize European contract law generated various proposals for uniform statutes and optional instruments, culminating by the recent Draft Common European Sales Law. This ambitious reform envisions a uniform Sales Law for Europe with strong consumer protections, enacted by every member na-tion. Transactors will be able to choose this law to gov-ern their transaction in place of existing contract law.
The Chicago conference brings together a group of leading scholars from Europe and from the University of Chicago, exploring law and economics perspective of the proposed harmonization. Is such an optional statute a desirable regulatory tool? Are the protections enacted in it suitable? What can be learned from the American experience with uniform commercial laws?
