Of all the German and European modernizations of the law of obligations during the past years and at present, the law of prescription (or of limitation) has probably undergone the fastest changes. The present trend favors a knowledge-based criterion for the beginning of the limitation period and a uniform length of this period. Has this approach proven to be successful or are new reforms necessary, which principles should be followed in European private law? The authors in this volume examine the development in many European countries as well as in PECL and DCFR and analyze core issues in the German law of prescription in its European context.
Of all the German and European modernizations of the law of obligations during the past years and at present, the law of prescription (or of limitation) has probably undergone the fastest changes. The present trend favors a knowledge-based criterion for the beginning of the limitation period and a uniform length of this period. Has this approach proven to be successful or are new reforms necessary, which principles should be followed in European private law? The authors in this volume examine the development in many European countries as well as in PECL and DCFR and analyze core issues in the German law of prescription in its European context.
Survey of contents
Oliver Remien: Einführung in das Thema –
Christian Baldus: Anspruch und Verjährung – Geschichte und System –
Pascal Ancel: Charakter, System und Fristen der Verjährung in Frankreich nach der Reform –
Hugh Beale: Reform of the Law of Limitation in England and Wales –
Wolfgang Ernst: Das Verjährungsrecht des (D)CRF –
Ulrich Magnus: Limitation in the International Arena – the United Nations Limitation Convention for International Sales –
Jan Dirk Harke: Privatautonomie und Verjährung: Verjährungsvereinbarungen –
Irene Kull: The Estonian Law of Prescription, PECL and Unidroit Principles –
Matthias Storme: Verjährung und Verfassung – Belgische Erfahrungen –
Dirk Looschelders: Verjährungsbeginn und -frist im subjektiv-objektiven System sowie die Wirkung von Treu und Glauben –
Arthur S. Hartkamp: The Law of Extinctive Prescription in the Netherlands against the background of European developments –
Peter Bydlinski/Peter Vollmaier: Österreichisches Verjährungsrecht. Grundregeln – Grundstrukturen – Grundwertungen – Reformideen –
Tatjana Josipovic: Verjährungsrecht in Kroatien –
Helmut Grothe: Einwirkungen auf den Verjährungsverlauf: Hemmung, Ablaufhemmung, Neubeginn –
Claire Huguenin/Florent Thouvenin: Verjährung und Reform in der Schweiz –
Filippo Ranieri: Verjährung im italienischen Recht vor dem Hintergrund der europäischen Entwicklungen. Zugleich ein Beitrag zum Europäischen Zivilrecht –
Florian Jacoby: Verjährung im Kauf- und Werkvertragsrecht –
Oliver Remien: Schlusswort
