EU’s Future Mandatory Contract Rules

“Non-Mandatory Rules in European Contract Law”

European Review of Contract Law, 2005

BY:  MARTIJN W. HESSELINK

Amsterdam Institute for Private Law (AIP)

Document:  Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection:

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=677242

This article seeks to show how mandatory contract rules and non-mandatory contract rules interact in European law. Since the EU is on the way to drafting contract rules, it needs to determine what rules will be mandatory for contracts, and what rules can be drafted around by parties.