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Non-Performance and Remedies under International Contract Law: Principles and Indian Contract Law A comparative survey of the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law, and Indian statutory con

Author:Lars Meyer
ISBN:9783631609934
Binding:Hardcover
Year:2010
Pages:280
Size:15 x 21 cm
Weight:468 grams
Price:INR4160.00
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About the Book
The survey compares the rules on contractual non-performance and remedies under the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, the Principles of European Contract Law, and Indian statutory contract law (including the Indian Contract Act, 1872). Given that most Indian statutes were derived from English law and may therefore be viewed as «codified common law», this comparison may contribute to the question of whether, especially in view of contract law harmonisation in the EU, the civil-law and common-law traditions could be merged in a common code. Moreover, it may help identify legal differences that are relevant to doing business between India and Europe. The general conclusion of the survey is that the Principles and Indian statutory contract law share a close proximity especially because many of their provisions on non-performance and remedies appear to be derived from the same concepts and also provide for very similar consequences.
About the Author
Lars Meyer

Lars Meyer was born in 1978. An attorney qualified in Germany, he studied law at the University of Hamburg, the Hague Academy of International Law and the University of Denver. Research for this book was conducted, inter alia, at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg and during a visiting research fellowship at Columbia Law School in New York City.
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“I learned something new and exciting on virtually every page of The Ethics of Oneness. Engels doesn’t just reveal and analyze the India-Emerson-Whitman connections, he situates them where they matter the most: in everyday life at a time when the revelation of Oneness is desparately needed. At a time when diversity is celebrated by some and weaponized by others, apprehending the Unity within and beyond that diversity is an essential task for humanity. By demonstrating that Oneness is as American as it is Eastern— and profoundly democratic at that—this book makes a contribution more valuable than the currency on which E pluribus unum is engraved.”
—Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda and Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times
“The appeal to ‘oneness’ is regularly and dangerously mistaken for an appeal to absolute order, to strict unity, to lockstep cohesion. The Ethics of Oneness disabuses us of this confusion. Engels shows his readers how nineteenth-century American thinkers responded to the fracturing of their political world and the tearing of the country’s social fabric by developing a philosophy of oneness—fluid, transcendent, and spiritual—that stood against the forces of exclusion and domination which jeopardized modern life. This is a philosophy that is all but forgotten today, which is to say that Engels has written an essential book for our time. We stand in need of his reminder.”
—John Kaag, author of Hiking with Nietzsche and Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
“There is much to love about this book, particularly the fact that it has a lot to offer a number of audiences, both academic and non-academic. Its greatest contribution to academic and public discourse is its account of communication as yoga, a uniquely U.S. American form of yoga. It enriches our understanding of yoga and its history in the U.S., it enriches our understanding of Emerson’s and Whitman’s philosophies by offering a new mode of approach to them, and it develops two ethical worldviews that have remained somewhat underdeveloped. This, of course, merely scratches the surface. Overall, I think Engels’s book is a masterclass in public-facing academic philosophy.”
—Philosophy East and West
“Engels does a masterful job of showing us how these two great nineteenth-century philosophers—one a mystical poet, the other a prolific essayist—created new ways of looking at early American life from the point of view of Eastern spiritual traditions.”
—Quest
“The Ethics of Oneness is a fascinating book about the early reception of yoga in the United States and its significance for contemporary democratic practice. Written by a scholar of rhetoric, the book is an extended analysis of the place of the Bhagavad Gita in the ethical thought of nineteenth-century US authors Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman.…I welcome Engels’s invitation to pay deeper attention to the cross-national influences coursing through the social practice of democracy in all its contexts.”
—American Religion
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