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77K? Law of Contracts and Restitution: A Comparative Introduction is a profound and comprehensive analysis of the German law of contracts and restitution. It is enormously useful for common lawyers who are confronted with these areas of German law. An introductory chapter includes a well-written treatise on the structure and historical background of the German Civil Code. The remaining eight chapters provide a thorough study of various subjects including the formation of contracts, the policing of contracts, relaxations of contractual privity, the performance of contracts, irregularities of performance, the principle of good faith, remedies and restitution. The reproduction of the leading German cases at the end of each chapter provides the reader with a helpful illustration of the topics. This approach shows that the authors have made every effort to present the material in a way that is both useful for and intelligible to common lawyers. Moreover, English leading cases, the facts of which resemble German ones, have been used to illustrate German legal problems, principles and, sometimes, peculiarities. Thus the authors demonstrate how English cases would be decided by German courts and how German cases would be dealt with by common law judges. Further, the authors successfully explain where concepts of German law would find their equivalents in English law and vice versa. A constant parallel examination of the two systems is extremely useful to further the understanding of the foreign law.

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