The author compares the two predominant remedies for breach of contract which have been adopted by most jurisdictions and also found access to international conventions like the Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CiSG): Specific performance and expectation damages.
Oliver Hofmann is legal engineer and an attorney-at-law, working for Noerr LLP. He studied law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany) and Stellenbosch University (South Africa). He worked at an international law firm as a lawyer (2014-2016) after completing his legal apprenticeship at the Higher Regional Court Munich (2011-2013). He was a member of the DFG-Graduate School in Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg (Germany) between 2016 and 2019 and Visiting Researcher at Yale Law School (USA) in 2017.
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“The book provides an interesting approach to an important topic of economical analysis.” (Sergei V. Rogosin, zbMATH 1497.91005, 2022)
Innehållsförteckning
Introduction.- Breach or Perform Decision – The Traditional Model of the Efficient Breach.- Distributional Effects and the Original Contract.- The Option to Cover.- Over- and Undercompensation.- Incomplete Information.- Transaction Costs.- Conclusion.