The Politics of European Sales Law: A Legal-Political Inquiry into the Drafting of the Uniform Commercial Code

Subjects:

Commercial Law, Drafting and Legal Writing

We like to think that sales law is technical. The presumption that it is possible to draft a Civil Code without making ideological choices - and that codification can be regarded as essentially technical - would appear to be the leading view. This book investigates the political stakes involved in the drafting of private law, more particularly in the drafting a European contract law. As is demonstrated by this original and powerful book, the drafting of private law - sales law in particular - cannot be considered apolitical or value-free. Many crucially important issues rise to the surface of debate in the process of this analysis, including the following: