AuthorWilhelmsson, Thomas. author
TitleCritical Studies in Private Law [electronic resource] : A Treatise on Need-Rational Principles in Modern Law / by Thomas Wilhelmsson
ImprintDordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1992
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8028-1
Descript XII, 258 p. online resource

SUMMARY

Critical Studies in Private Law discusses the prerequisites and possibilities for an alternative or critical legal dogmatics. The starting point of the analysis is the recognition of contradictions within the legal order. In this respect the theory may use the experience of both American Critical Legal Studies and the German attempts to formulate a legal theory for the social state. The key for understanding how the contradictory concrete legal material may produce varying results on the level of legal decisions is the systematization, the general principles of the law. The analysis does not, however, stop at this theoretical level. The methodology is tested through a discussion of some features of modern private law. Some key elements of contract law, including consumer law, of the Welfare State are singled out. The work focuses on the person-orientation of modern law as a challenge to the traditional abstract legal form. The aim is to explore the limits for a contract law radically oriented towards the personal social and economic needs of the parties. This endeavour involves the creation of new legal concepts such as social force majeure


CONTENT

I. Introduction -- II. โGeneral principlesโ as the primary object of alternative studies -- III. Goals: new elements in a contract law of the welfare state -- IV. On the juridical roles of contract law -- V. The concrete legal material โ a Finnish example -- VI. Towards need-oriented general principles -- VII. Social force majeure -- VIII. Effects of an alternative doctrine -- Finnish statutes -- Abbreviations


SUBJECT

  1. Philosophy
  2. Political science
  3. Law -- Philosophy
  4. Law
  5. Commercial law
  6. Private international law
  7. Conflict of laws
  8. International law
  9. Comparative law
  10. Philosophy
  11. Philosophy of Law
  12. Theories of Law
  13. Philosophy of Law
  14. Legal History
  15. Commercial Law
  16. Private International Law
  17. International & Foreign Law
  18. Comparative Law