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Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia I: Remedies for Breach of Contract

Year of Publication: 2016
Month of Publication: 4
Editor(s): Mindy Chen-Wishart, Alexander Loke and Burton Ong
Research Area(s): Contract Law
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Abstract:

Studies in the Contract Laws of Asia provides an authoritative account of the contract law regimes of selected Asian jurisdictions, including the major centres of commerce where limited critical commentaries have been published in the English language. Each volume in the series aims to offer an insider’s perspective on specific areas of contract law—remedies, formation, parties, contents, vitiating factors, change of circumstances, illegality and public policy—and explores how these diverse jurisdictions address common problems encountered in contractual disputes. A concluding chapter draws out the convergences and divergences, and other themes. Since all the Asian jurisdictions examined have inherited or adopted the common law or civil law models of European legal systems, scholars of legal transplant will find a mine of information on how and why the received law has developed after the initial adaptation and transplant process. At the same time, many points of convergence emerge that provide good starting points for regional harmonization projects. Volume I of this series deals with the remedies for breach of contract in the laws of China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea, and Thailand. Typically, each jurisdiction discussed is covered in two parts: the first deals with performance remedies and agreed remedies, while the second deals with monetary remedies.