Organizational Contract

Stefan Grundmann (1958) is married, with three children. He has held the chair for German, European and International Private Law at Humboldt University since 2004. In 2013, he became professor for transnational law at the European University Institute (Florence), while retaining the chair at Humboldt University. He has been visiting professor at King’s College London, at Rome I University, ’La Sapienza’ and LUISS, at Oxford and Cambridge universities, at Herzlya University (Tel-Aviv), at NYU and Harvard University. He is founding president and current president of the Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA). He is co-founder and president (of the steering committee) of the European Law School (Berlin/London/Paris/Rome) and director of several institutes in the universities where he holds or has held chairs. He is a member of the board of the German Society of Comparative Law. Moreover, he is a member of the European Law Institute and of its council. His research interests include contract law, company and banking law, legal theory, including comparative and European private law. His publications include European Contract Law (1999), European Company Law (2004, 2007, 2011/12); and several com­mentaries on banking and German contract law in German, European Company Law in English (2007) and in Chinese (forthcoming). He is co-editor of several journals including the European Review of Contract Law (editor-in-chief).

’The book addresses a highly important issue, particularly topical because of the contemporary development of European contract law. It is a much-needed response to the fact that there is so far only limited research and legislation on organizational contracting. The well-known authors analyze the issues in depth, with relevance both for contract theory and practice.’ Thomas Wilhelmsson, University of Helsinki, Finland ’Admirably explored here, the exciting hypothesis of a new organizational paradigm, more easily understood in terms of governance, regulation and networks than in the traditional language of bargains and obligations, this book is both a powerful explanation of recent orientations in European legislation and strikes rich new veins in interdisciplinary theoretical research.’ Horatia Muir Watt, Sciences Po University, France

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