Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?

This chapter claims that EU law is establishing general rules for the formation of contracts by following a radically new approach to procedural fairness. Agreement, the core element in contract formation, is being transformed by becoming standardised as it ignores the characteristics of the contrac...

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Autor: Elizalde, Francisco de
Formato: capítulo de livro
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Recursos:IE
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spelling Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?Elizalde, Francisco de56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho::5603 Derecho internacionalODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidasThis chapter claims that EU law is establishing general rules for the formation of contracts by following a radically new approach to procedural fairness. Agreement, the core element in contract formation, is being transformed by becoming standardised as it ignores the characteristics of the contracting parties. The transformation results from the use of legal standards to determine valid contract formation. Those legal standards include the ‘average consumer’ and the ‘average retail (investment) client’, which ignore individual knowledge, expertise and causation – a radical shift from traditional contract law. MEUCL treats all members of the class alike. It is claimed here that this trans- formation is occurring despite the recurrent affirmation that EU law is without prejudice ‘to contract law and, in particular, to the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract’YesPublishedBloomsburyhttps://ror.org/02jjdwm7520262021info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPartapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/4092reponame:Repositorio IEinstname:IEInglésIE Law SchoolIE UniversityPrivate & Business LawAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.ie.edu:20.500.14417/40922026-06-15T12:40:57Z
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title Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?
spellingShingle Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?
Elizalde, Francisco de
56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho::5603 Derecho internacional
ODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
title_short Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?
title_full Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?
title_fullStr Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?
title_full_unstemmed Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?
title_sort Standardisation of Agreement in EU Law. An Adieu to the Contracting Parties ?
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Elizalde, Francisco de
author Elizalde, Francisco de
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv 56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho::5603 Derecho internacional
ODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
topic 56 Ciencias Jurídicas y Derecho::5603 Derecho internacional
ODS 16 - Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
description This chapter claims that EU law is establishing general rules for the formation of contracts by following a radically new approach to procedural fairness. Agreement, the core element in contract formation, is being transformed by becoming standardised as it ignores the characteristics of the contracting parties. The transformation results from the use of legal standards to determine valid contract formation. Those legal standards include the ‘average consumer’ and the ‘average retail (investment) client’, which ignore individual knowledge, expertise and causation – a radical shift from traditional contract law. MEUCL treats all members of the class alike. It is claimed here that this trans- formation is occurring despite the recurrent affirmation that EU law is without prejudice ‘to contract law and, in particular, to the rules on the validity, formation or effect of a contract’
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