Table of Contents:
  • PART I : INTRODUCTION AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: Introductory remarks
  • An historic approach to pacta sunt servanda, impossibility and rebus sic stantibus
  • PART II : COMPARATIVE SURVEY NATIONAL JURISDICTIONS: French law
  • Italian law
  • Latin American jurisdictions : Chilean and Argentinian law
  • The common law jurisdictions : English and American law
  • PART III : COMPARATIVE SURVEY : INTERNATIONAL INSTRUMENTS OF CONTRACT LAW: International instruments of contract law : the approach of the CISG, the PICC, the PECL and the DCFR
  • PART IV : THE EFFECTS OF A CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES: The duty to renegotiatie as an effect of changed circumstances
  • The adjustment of the contract as effect of changed circumstances
  • Concluding remarks.