1st Edition

The Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe Recodification and Recent Developments

Edited By Zvonimir Slakoper, Ivan Tot Copyright 2021
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

The Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe examines the new codifications, reforms, and other recent developments in Central and Southeast Europe which have significantly modernized the law of obligations in the last two decades, focusing particularly on the legal systems of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Turkey. With chapters... Read more

Foreword (Albert Ruda-González)

Introduction

1. Recodification and Recent Developments in the Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe
Zvonimir Slakoper and Ivan Tot

Part I. Recodification of the Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe

2. The Conception and Institutional Novelties of Recodification of Private Law in the Slovak Republic
Marek Števček and Marek Ivančo

3. Recodifying Tort Law in Central Europe in the Beginning of Twenty-First Century (Poland, Czech Republic, and Hungary)
Ewa Bagińska and Paulina Wyszyńska-Ślufińska

4. Limitations of Freedom of Contract in the New Codifications of the Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe: An Inspiration for the New Polish Civil Code?
Dorota Miler

5. Liability for Breach of Contract in Hungarian Law
Attila Menyhárd

Part II. Specific Institutes and Recent Developments in the Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe

6. Ascertainment of a Claim as a Requirement for Set-Off: Different Approaches in Comparative and the Czech Law
Jiří Handlar

7. Restitution of Use Value of Money in Unjustified Enrichment: Some Open Questions in the Law of Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia
Damjan Možina

8. The Use of Negative Interest Rates with a Special Reference to Banking Cash Deposit Contracts in the Law of Croatia
Ana Vargek Stilinović and Marko Stilinović

9. The Formality of Real Estate Transactions in the Law of Slovenia and Croatia in the Light of New Technologies
David Borlinič Gačnik and Jure Jakšić

10. A Contradiction Arising from an Annulment Decision of the Turkish Constitutional Court: The Unique Problem of a Unique Provision of the New Code of Obligations
Orhan Emre Konuralp

Biography

Zvonimir Slakoper is a Full Professor of Civil Law and the Head of the Department of Civil Law at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, Faculty of Law, and a Full Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, Faculty of Economics and Business. His expertise covers the law of obligations, especially banking contracts, and company law, and he has written, co-authored and edited several books, including university textbooks, and many journal articles in these fields.

Ivan Tot is an Assistant Professor of Commercial Law in the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a Co-Chair of the European Law Institute Croatian Hub. His research mainly focuses on the law of obligations, banking law and European contract law.