englischThis work is a fundamental historical and comparative study of presold house contracts in German and Taiwanese law. Despite the similar systems in the German Civil Code (before the reform of the law of obligations) and the Taiwanese Civil Code, property development contracts are classified [...]

englischThe basic elements of a contract, namely, offer and acceptance, the intention to be bound, and consideration, and requirements of form found in English, German, and Japanese law are compared against the background of their historical development, the legal consciousness and practices [...]

englischThe "Civil Code of the People's Republic of China" (CCP) was adopted on May 28, 2020, came into force on January 1, 2021, and is the first coherent codification of civil law in the history of the People's Republic of China. Thus, this new code is seen as a groundbreaking step towards [...]

englischThis volume is a collection of edited papers presented at the occasion of the 7th Seoul-Freiburg Law Faculties Symposium held in Seoul in September 2019. The cooperation and academic exchange between the Law Faculties of the Seoul National University (SNU) and the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität [...]

englischThe starting point of this book is that although Japanese corporate law was born and developed under the strong influence of German corporate law, after World War II, it has introduced new systems which cannot be explained by mere analogy to German law. For example, the provisions [...]

englischThis volume is a collection of edited papers presented on the occasion of the 6th Seoul-Freiburg Law Faculties Symposium held in Freiburg in June 2016. Since its inception in 1996, the cooperation and academic exchange between the Law Faculties of the Seoul National University (SNU) and the [...]

englischFunction and scope of private law making (Privatautonomie) in the legal systems of East Asia and Germany – that is the leading topic of the articles in this collection. The articles cover a wide range of aspects: from legal theory and legal history to constitutional and international law, [...]