Jan M. Smits: Contract Law: A Comparative Introduction

Contract for the formation of a bank account in Iranian law and comparative

 Abstract: By creating a bank account agreement, an account is opened under the name of the applicant in the name of the bank. In accordance with the provisions of this agreement and the intention of the parties to the contract, the bank undertakes to accept all the funds the account holder or third parties intend to deposit into this account with the account holder, and, accordingly, the acco...

Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool ? by JAN SMITS

This paper is intended to open up discussion on potential co-operation, which would enable participants restricted by unequal resources and technologies to participate in a pan-European project. The idea has not yet been fully developed but the purpose of the project is to allow digital maps to function not only as geographic resources and educational tools, but to act simultaneously as an inte...

Symposium: Promises, Commitments, and the Foundations of Contract Law Introduction

Most of the essays gathered in this Symposium were submitted to the Special Workshop on Economics, Ethics, and Law at the 22nd IVR World Congress in Granada, Spain.1 The papers selected address promises and commitments, their rational or moral grounding, and their relationship to various kinds of contracts and agreements. While the duty to fulfill promises is uncontroversial, the nature of prom...

Review of “ Contract Law in America , ” By Lawrence M . Friedman

Fault in Contract Law

A promisor is strictly liable for breaching a contract, according to the standard account. However, a negligence-based system of contract law can be given an economic interpretation, and this Article shows that such a system is in some respects more attractive than the strict-liability system. This may explain why, as a brief discussion of cases shows, negligence ideas continue to play a role i...