Viola Heutger – författare

The Study Group on a European Civil Code has taken upon itself the task of drafting common European principles for the most important aspects of the law of obligations and for certain parts of the law of property in movables which are especially relevant for the functioning of the common market. Like the Commission on European Contract Law's Principles of European Contract Law, the results of the research conducted by the Study Group on a European Civil Code seek to advance the process of Europeanisation of private law. Among other topics the series tackles sales and service contracts, distribution contracts and security rights, renting contracts and loan agreements, negotiorum gestio, delicts and unjustified enrichment law, transfer of property, and trust law. The principles furnish each of the national jurisdictions a grid reference.They can be agreed upon by the parties within the framework of the rules of private international law. They may provide a stimulus to both the national and European legislator for moulding private law. Beyond this, they aim to further discussion about the creation of a European Civil Code, or a Common Frame of Reference in the area of patrimonial law, by submitting a concrete model. The Principles of European Law are published in co-operation with Bruylant (Belgium), Sellier (Germany) and Staempfli Publishers Ltd. (Switzerland).

Die Themen dieses Sammelbandes reichen von Sicherungsrechten an Triebwerken, Umschlag beim Multimodaltransport und Datenschutz in der Logistik über den Beweis des Vertragsschlusses im Internet, die Verjährungsunterbrechung durch Betreibung und das Verwaltungsgericht als Rechtsöffnungsrichter bis hin zur Verwertung privater Videoaufnahmen im Strassenverkehr oder zum erfolgsabhängigen Anwaltshonorar. Gedanken zum Werdegang eines "Global Business Lawyer" sowie viele weitere Analysen zu spannenden Rechtsfragen und Rückblicke in die Rechtsgeschichte runden den Band ab.Eine grosse Anzahl der ehemaligen und derzeitigen Schülerinnen und Schüler von Prof. Andreas Furrer haben sich zusammengefunden und diese Festgabe zu seinem 55. Geburtstag mit Beiträgen aus allen Forschungsbereichen von Prof. Furrer erstellt. Sowohl Inhalt als auch Autorenschaft sind interdisziplinär und grenzüberschreitend.

The rules presented in this volume of the "Principles of European Law" deal with sales contracts. The sales contact has served as the paradigm for contracts in general. Moreover, it is also probably the most common contract, and certainly the most common consumer contract, that there is. In fact, sales come in all shapes and sizes: ranging from the purchase of the daily newspaper at the news-stand or the groceries in the supermarket, through to the purchase of a new car and to commodity sales on highly specialised markets. Furthermore, there are many mixed transactions that contain a certain element of sale, such as distribution contracts or all sorts or manufacturing contracts.