This is a two-volume set on the German Law of Obligations. The volumes comprise the most comprehensive treatment of German contract and tort law. Both books are uniquely detailed and scholarly, and as such, they will be essential reading for all scholars and students involved in these areas of law.

An authoritative account of the German law of obligations after the reform legislation of 2002 and a critical assessment of the new law in historical and comparative perspective. The analysis covers the new regime concerning liability for general non-performance, non-conformity in sales law, the incorporation of a number of special statutes aimed at the protection of consumers, and examines how the reform has moved German contract law considerably closer to European thinking patterns.

A unique comparative analysis of Chinese contract law accessible to lawyers from civil, common, and mixed law jurisdictions.

With its companion volume, The Law of Torts, this two-volume work provides a full scale treatise on the German Law of Obligations (Contract, Restitution and Tort) written in a comparative way and with a Common Law reader in mind. A commentary, which amounts to about half of the book, is accompanied by some 250 translations of leading German cases. This should prove a useful work for students and academics with an interest in German and Comparative law.

This book is widely regarded as one of the most remarkable achievements in Roman Law and Comparative Law scholarship this century - a fact attested to by the universal acclaim with which it has been received throughout Europe, America, and beyond. As a work of Roman Law scholarship it fusesthe vast volume of 20th century scholarship on the Roman law of obligations into a clear and very readable (and in many ways original) account of the law. As a work of comparative law it traces the transformation of the Roman law of obligations over the centuries into what is now modern German,English and South African law, presenting the reader with a contrast between these legal systems which is unique both in its scope and its depth. As a whole the book is written with a deep understanding of human nature and of many social, economic, and other forces that determine the face of thelaw.

Defining where the needs of contracting parties end, and where the mistreatment of animals begins is especially difficult in contract law, where protecting animals is not a basic premise. Thus, although animal law is a widely discussed topic, the position of animals under civil law has not been discussed comprehensively before. The first chapters of the book set the background for subsequent civil law considerations given that the object of a contractual obligation is an animal, and the impact this has on the conclusion, performance and consequences of non-performance of a contract. It constitutes a unique interdisciplinary and comparative work focused mainly on animals in contractual relations (e.g. sale, donation, lease, tenancy, commission, agency, safe-keeping, training contracts).

Described in the Cambridge Law Journal as 'an intellectual achievement of the highest order' and 'a landmark in comparative legal studies' Professor Markesinis' book has earned a reputation among scholars and students as a truly monumental work of scholarship. This, the leading work on the subject, will be essential reading for all scholars of tort law, scholars of comparative legal studies and undergraduate students in both areas