| Autore |
Teubner Gunther
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Oxford, [England] ; Portland, OR, : Hart Publishing, 2011
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (315 p.)
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| Disciplina |
346.02
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| Collana |
International studies in the theory of private law
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| Soggetto topico |
Computer networks - Law and legislation - Germany
Liability (Law) - Germany
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| ISBN |
1-84731-775-8
1-4725-6095-7
1-283-34025-9
9786613340252
1-84731-661-1
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction to Networks as Connected Contracts by Hugh Collins -- 1 Between Market and Organisation -- 2 The Inadequacy of Legal Conceptions of Networks -- 3 Sociological Jurisprudence -- 4 The Distinctive Properties of Networks -- 5 The Challenge of Comparative Sociological Jurisprudence -- 6 The Concept of Connected Contracts -- 7 Network Effects on Interpretation of Bilateral Contracts -- 8 Internal Network Liability -- 9 External Network Liability -- 10 Conclusion -- Introduction: The Aims of Legal Analysis of Networks -- Chapter 1 -- The Network Revolution: New Risks - Unsolved Legal Issues -- I. Two 'Irritating' Legal Cases -- II. Appropriate Doctrinal Responses? -- III. Legally Relevant Networks -- IV. The New Economic Relevance of Pre-modern Networks -- V. Forms of Network and their Regulatory Problems -- VI. Specific Risks of Networks -- Chapter 2 -- Socio-economic Analyses and Legal Characterisation -- I. Market Regime: Networks as Contracts? -- II. Organisational Regime: Networks as Business Associations? -- III. Hybrid Regimes: Networks as Institutionalised Contradictions? -- IV. Communitarian Regime: Networks as 'Communities'? -- V. Mixed Regime: Networks as a Type of Mixed Contract? -- VI. Polycorporate Regime: Networks as Corporate Groups? -- VII. Idiosyncratic Regime: 'Network Contract' as a New Legal Concept? -- Chapter 3 -- Networks as Connected Contracts -- I. Generalisation of Connected Contracts and their Re-specification for Networks -- II. Structural and Functional Equivalances -- III. A Productive 'Unsustainable' Contradiction -- IV. The Legal Construct of Reality: the Dual Constitution as Contract and Association -- V. Legal Consequences: Selective Attribution to Contractual Partners and to the Network -- VI. Legal Problems of Institutionalised Networking -- Chapter 4 -- The Effects of Networks on Bilateral Contracts -- I. Differentiated Discounts -- II. Structural Contradiction: Bilateral Exchange versus Multilateral Connectivity -- III. The Purpose of the Network as the Yardstick for Duties of Loyalty -- IV. Selected Duties of Loyalty toward the Network -- V. Profit Sharing? -- VI. Risk Distribution? Network Purpose and the Judicial Review of Standard Form Contracts -- Chapter 5 -- Piercing Liability Within the Network: The Special Relationship between Members of the Network who Are Not Contractual Partners -- I. Free Riding in the Network -- II. Structural Contradiction: Competition versus Co-operation -- III. Piercing Within the Network? -- IV. Piercing Liability within Parallel Contracts -- V. Extra-Contractual Duties of Loyalty -- VI. Protective Obligations, Performance Obligations, Promotion Obligations -- VII. Analogies to Company Law: Derivative Action within the Contractual Network? -- VIII. Hierarchical Multilateral Network -- Chapter 6 -- External Liability of Networks: Expanding the Range of Responsibility -- I. Franchising in Services: 'Organised Irresponsibility' -- II. Structural Contradiction: Unitas Multiplex -- III. External Liability of Networks -- IV. Decentralised Network Liability -- V. Selected Constellations of Liability
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810856203321 |
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Networks as connected contracts / Gunther Teubner ; (translated by Michelle Everson) ; edited with an introduction by Hugh Collins
