The Code Napol?on Rewritten: French Contract Law after the 2016 Reforms [Paperback]

The provisions of the French Civil Code governing the law of obligations have remained largely unchanged since 1804 and have served as the model for civil codes across the world. In 2016, the French Government effected major reforms of the provisions on the law of contract, the general regime of obligations and proof of obligations. This work explores in detail the most interesting new provisions on French contract law in a series of essays by French lawyers and comparative lawyers working on French law and other civil law systems. It will make these fundamental reforms accessible to an English-speaking audience.

John Cartwright is Professor of the Law of Contract at the University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Law Faculty's Institute of European and Comparative Law.

Simon Whittaker is Professor of European Comparative Law at the University of Oxford.

1. Introduction
SIMON WHITTAKER AND JOHN CARTWRIGHT

Part I: The Background to the Reforms
2. The Process of Elaboration of the Reform of the Law of Contract
B?N?DICTE FAUVARQUE-COSSON, JULIETTE GEST AND FRAN?OIS ANCEL
I. Introduction
II. The Context of the Reform
III. The Three Periods of the Process of Reform

Part II: The New Provisions Critically Examined
3. Contracts, Contract Law and Contractual Principle
SIMON WHITTAKER
I. Introduction
II. Identifying 'Contract Law'
III. The Portrait of French Contract Law in the Reformed Code Civil
IV. Conclusion
A: The Creation of a Valid Contract
4. Formation of Contract: Negotiation and the Process of Agreement
RUTH SEFTON-GREEN
I. Precontractual Negotiations: Freedom and Good Faith
II. Offer and Acceptance
III. Pre-contracts
IV. Conclusion
5. Validity of Contract:Dol,ErreurandObligation d'Information
CAROLE AUBERT DE VINCELLES
I. Precontractual Information Obligations
II. The Defects in Consent
6.Violencein the Reformed Nl£”