Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe

<p><em>The Law of Obligations in Central and Southeast Europe</em> 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.</p><p>With chapters authored by prominent academics and promising young legal scholars this book discusses the results of the modernizations and describes the legislative reforms of the law of obligations that are underway or are discussed and advocated for in the countries of Central and Southeast Europe. Divergences of the new civil codes and other legislative acts from earlier legal solutions are identified and the rationale behind these departures is analysed as well as the introduction of the new legal institutes in the law of obligations in these parts of the world. The Introduction provides a concise country-by-country overview of the recodification modernization and reform of the law of obligations in Central and Southeast Europe. In Part I chapters discuss the process of recodification in the Slovak Republic Czech Republic Poland and Hungary with focus on the main novelties in their contract and tort law. The chapters in Part II then discuss several more specific legal institutes of the law of obligations and other recent developments and contemporary challenges to the law of obligations in the Czech Republic Slovenia Croatia Serbia and Turkey.</p><p>This book is of interest to legal scholars in the field of private law as well as to students practitioners members of law reform bodies and civil servants in Central and Southeast Europe and beyond.</p>