Business Law in Common Law Jurisdictions

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hannes Rösler, LL.M. (Harvard)
Professor for Civil Law, International Private Law
and Comparative Law at the University of Siegen
Business Law in
Common Law Jurisdictions
Date: Thursday 8.15 – 9.45
Room: US-D 207
Survey of the lecture
1st part: Introduction
2nd part: Fundamentals of Comparative Law
3rd part: Introduction to English law
4th part: English Courts and Judges
5th part: English Contract Law: Offer and Acceptance
6th part: English Contract Law: Voidability, Content and Remedies
7th part: English Tort Law
8th part: English Property Law
9th part: Fundamentals of US Law
10th part: Negotiating with Lawyers form the Common Law World
11th part: Summary: Common Law v. Civil Law
SS 2016
Literature and Materials
Literature in English
• Burrows (ed.), English Private Law, 3rd ed., Oxford 2013
• Cartwright, Contract Law: An Introduction to the English Law of Contract for the Civil Lawyer
2nd ed., Oxford 2013
• Markesinis, Deakin & Johnston, Tort Law, 7th ed., London 2012
• McKendrick, Contract Law, 11th ed., London 2015
• Treitel & Peel, Law of Contract, 14th ed., London 2015
• classics: Chitty on Contracts, Clerk & Lindsell on Torts, etc.
www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/common-law-library
• Barnes, Dworkin, & Richards, Law for Business, 12th ed., New York 2014
• Hay, Law of the United States, 4rd ed., Munich 2016
• Kadner Graziano, Comparative Contract Law, Basingstoke 2009
• Müller-Chen, C. Müller & Widmer Lüchinger (eds.), Comparative Private Law, Zürich 2015
• Zweigert & Kötz (translated by Weir), Introduction to Comparative Law, 3rd ed., Oxford
1998
Literature in German
• Blumenwitz/Fedtke, Einführung in das anglo-amerikanische Recht – Rechtsquellenlehre,
Methode der Rechtsfindung, Arbeiten mit praktischen Rechtsfällen, 7. Aufl., München 2003
• Henrich/Huber, Einführung in das englische Privatrecht, Darmstadt 2003
• Triebel/Illmer/Ringe/Vogenauer/Ziegler, Englisches Handels- und Wirtschaftsrecht, 3. Aufl.,
Heidelberg 2012
• von Bernstorff, Einführung in das englische Recht, 4. Aufl., München 2011
• Hay, US-Amerikanisches Recht, 6. Aufl., München 2015
• Reimann, Einführung in das US-amerikanische Privatrecht, 2. Aufl., München 2004
• Kadner Graziano, Europäisches Vertragsrecht – Übungen zur Rechtsvergleichung und
Harmonisierung des Rechts, Basel 2008
• Kischel, Rechtsvergleichung, München 2015
• Koch/Magnus/Winkler von Mohrenfels, IPR und Rechtsvergleichung, 4. Aufl., München 2010
• Sacco, Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung, 2. unveränd. Aufl., Baden-Baden 2011
• Zweigert/Kötz, Einführung in die Rechtsvergleichung, 3. Aufl., Tübingen 1996
All slides, cases, documents and references for each part of the lecture
• are available on moodle. The password will be announced in the lecture.
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