European Sustainable Carriage of Goods: The Role of Contract Law

ISBN-13: 9781138614420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 176 str.

Ellen Eftestl-Wilhelmsson

Opis

This work discusses the rapidly developing European transport policy on sustainable freight and the connected efforts initiated by the European Commission (EC) on greening transport by the means of contract law.

Spis treści

I Introduction  1 What this Book is All About  2 The Present Legal Context 3 EU competence in the area of international transport  II The Common Transport Policy  4 The Aim of Sustainable Transport  5 The Call for a European Liability Framework for Multimodal Contracts of Carriage  6 The Main Legal Obstacles to a European Framework  7 Does a harmonised legal regime really enhance multimodal carriage?  III Contract Law as a Tool to Promote Sustainable Carriage of Goods  8 Integration of Sustainability in EU Contract Law  9 The role of the Freight Integrator  10 Conclusion

O autorze

Dr. Ellen Eftestøl-Wilhelmsson is an Associate Professor in Law at the Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway and a Docent of Civil Law and Research Manager for the InterTran research group at the Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland.