Towards a Chinese Civil Code -

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Résumé :
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.

Biographie:
Lei Chen, LLD (2008), is Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong. He has published extensively on Chinese Private Law and Comparative Law, including his recently published The Making of Chinese Condominium Law (Intersentia, 2010).

C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, Ph.D. (1997), Maastricht University, Faculty of Law, is Professor of European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure. He has published extensively on European Legal History and Comparative Civil Procedure, and is general editor and main author of the best-selling European Traditions in Civil Procedure (Intersentia, 2005).

Sommaire:
Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Lei Chen and C.H. (Remco) van Rhee General 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 Property Law 100 Years of Chinese Property Law: Looking Back and Thinking Forward: Lei Chen Restructuring Modern Property Law on a Theoretical Basis: Weiguo Wang 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 Contract Law 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 Pisler Third Party Rights in Contract: A Case Study on Codifying and not Codifying: Hector L. Macqueen Tort law 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 deLisle 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 V. Palmer Civil procedure 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: C.H. (Remco) van Rhee Judicial Case Management in France-Tradition into Modernity: About some Aspects of Contemporary Tendencies in French Civil Procedure: Loic Cadiet