Towards a Chinese civil code comparative and historical perspectives (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction / Lei Chen and Remco van Rhee -- The systematization of the Chinese civil code / Liming Wang -- From a supplementary legislator to a legitimate judicial lawmaker : on the role of the Supreme People's Court -- In developing the law in mainland China / Zhenbao Jin -- Factors ensuring the success or failure of draft codifications : some European experiences / Dirk Heirbaut -- Years of Chinese property law : looking back and thinking forward / Lei Chen -- Can European property law be codified? : towards the development of property notions / Sjef van Erp -- A comparative assessment of the provisions of the new Chinese property code on condominiums / Cornelius G. van der Merwe -- Conceptualizing the Chinese trust : some thoughts from Europe / Kenneth G.C. Reid -- A snapshot of Chinese contract law from an historical and comparative perspective / Shiyuan Han -- Codification in Europe and China : what makes contract law special? / Jan M. Smits --
- Service contracts in Chinese contract law : an approach according to the European Draft Common Frame of Reference / Knut Benjamin Pissler -- Third party rights in contract : a case study on codifying and not codifying / Hector L. Macqueen -- The bases of liability in Chinese tort liability law-historical and comparative perspectives / Yan Zhu -- A common law-like civil law and a public face for private law : China's tort law in comparative perspective -- Jacques de lisle -- Uncertain causes : the Chinese tort liability law in comparative perspective / Ken Oliphant -- Chinese medical negligence law : how to distinguish and accommodate common law principles? / Xiju Zhao -- The great spill in the gulf and a sea of pure economic loss : reflections on the boundaries of civil liability / Vernon Valentine Palmer -- The position of judges in civil litigation in transitional China : judicial mediation and case management / Yulin Fu and Zhixun Cao --
- The influence of the 1895 Austrian ZPO in the Netherlands / Cornelis Hendrik (Remco) van Rhee -- Judicial case management in France : tradition into modernity about some aspects of contemporary tendencies in French civil procedure / Loic Cadiet