Ejan Mackaay – författare

Ejan Mackaay offers a comprehensive look at the essential points of economic reasoning, the Coase Theorem, and legal institutions such as property, extra-contractual civil liability and contracts. The book’s structure mirrors the way law is taught in civil law countries, with structured presentations, references to civil code articles paired with non-technical explanations, and limited reliance on graphs. Building on the success of the 2008 edition of the French-language textbook on law and economics from a civil law perspective, this second English-language version appears alongside the 2021 edition of the French-language book.

This pioneering volume fills a critical gap in the literature of law and economics and will be an invaluable resource for academia, the judiciary, policy-makers, regulators and legal practitioners working in civil law systems.

This book is a valuable contribution to the reflection on the place and meaning of value creation and accountability as goals for business law. It provides a richer understanding of key legal institutions supporting the rule of law and democratic, market-based economies. It will be of great value to academics interested in business law, competition law, comparative law and legal theory, students studying law, business and economics, and to policymakers and regulators.

The trilingual volume (Dutch, English and French) contains the provisions of the Netherlands Civil Code dealing with transport law (Book 8 of the Code). The text includes the parts in force on 1 September 1994: general provisions, maritime law, inland waterway law, air law, road transport law, the law pertaining to the carriage of dangerous substances, and final provisions. Future editions of this volume will be supplemented with other modes of transportation, as they are added to the Code. The translation from the original Dutch into English and French has been prepared under the auspices of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice. The two translators, both legally trained in the Netherlands as well as abroad, are Professor P.P.C. Haanappel, Director European Affairs, International Air Transport Association, Geneva, and Adjunct Professor, McGill Univesity in Montreal, and Professor Ejan Mackaay of the Faculty of Law, University of Montreal.