| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | Civil society constitutionalism : the power of contract law |
| Authors: | Amstutz, Marc Abegg, Andreas Karavas, Vaios |
| Published in: | Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies |
| Volume(Issue): | 14 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page(s): | 235 |
| Pages to: | 258 |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | Indiana University Press |
| ISSN: | 1080-0727 1543-0367 |
| Language: | English |
| Subject (DDC): | 346: Private law (CH) |
| Abstract: | This article argues that the vision of a social law of contract is exhibited in the judgment of the Swiss Federal Court in Post v. Verein gegen Tierfabriken ("VgT"). The judgment is one of a law of contract that interacts with a community of the subjects instead of the individual subjects of a community. This paper contends that law today has the task of providing for the areas of social autonomy from which "civil society" is built up and in which, at the same time, the increasing social fragmentation can be overcome piecemeal. The article argues that conceiving contract law as civil society constitutionalism, as the constitution not of the state but of society, is the jurisprudential task for our time. |
| URI: | http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol14/iss2/3/ https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/12653 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | School of Management and Law |
| Organisational Unit: | Center for Public Commercial Law (ZOW) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen School of Management and Law |
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Amstutz, M., Abegg, A., & Karavas, V. (2007). Civil society constitutionalism : the power of contract law. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 14(2), 235–258. http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol14/iss2/3/
Amstutz, M., Abegg, A. and Karavas, V. (2007) ‘Civil society constitutionalism : the power of contract law’, Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 14(2), pp. 235–258. Available at: http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol14/iss2/3/.
M. Amstutz, A. Abegg, and V. Karavas, “Civil society constitutionalism : the power of contract law,” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 235–258, 2007, [Online]. Available: http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol14/iss2/3/
AMSTUTZ, Marc, Andreas ABEGG und Vaios KARAVAS, 2007. Civil society constitutionalism : the power of contract law. Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies [online]. 2007. Bd. 14, Nr. 2, S. 235–258. Verfügbar unter: http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol14/iss2/3/
Amstutz, Marc, Andreas Abegg, and Vaios Karavas. 2007. “Civil Society Constitutionalism : The Power of Contract Law.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 14 (2): 235–58. http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol14/iss2/3/.
Amstutz, Marc, et al. “Civil Society Constitutionalism : The Power of Contract Law.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, vol. 14, no. 2, 2007, pp. 235–58, http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/ijgls/vol14/iss2/3/.
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