The Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts - Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision

Part I. General Report and Original Questionnaire

1. General Report on the Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision
Rona Serozan

Part II. National Reports

2. From Crisis to Crisis: Weakness of Contracts in Argentina
Julio César Rivera

3. Keeping the Balance: The Effects of Financial Crises on Contracts Under Brazilian Law
Anderson Schreiber

4. Les effets exercés par les crises financières sur la force obligatoire des contrats: certitudes et incertitudes du droit québécois en matière d’imprévision
Élise Charpentier, Nathalie Vézina

5. Can Financial Crisis Lead to the Application of the Institute of Changed Circumstances Under Croatian Law?
Maja Bukovac Puvača, Gabrijela Mihelčić, Iva Tuhtan Grgić

6. Elimination of the Impacts of Financial Crisis on Legal Relationships According to Czech Private Law
Marketa Selucká

7. Financial Crises and Danish Contract Law: No Room for Hardship
Mads Bryde Andersen, Joseph Lookofsky

8. Crises financières et contrats: le droit positif français refuse la révision d’un contrat devenu déséquilibré mais le projet de réforme entr’ouvre la porte à l’imprévision
Rémy Cabrillac

9. Financial Turmoil as a Change of Circumstances Under Greek Contract Law
Nikolaos A. Davrados

10. “All Roads Lead to Rome”: The Multiple Grounds Under Italian Law to Challenge a Contract Due to Supervening Changes of Circumstances
Marco Torsello

11. Effects of a Bubble Economy on the Binding Force of Contracts: The 1990s Experience of Japan and Its Implications
Shugo Kitayama

12. The Effects of Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Polish Solutions
Wojciech Robaczyński

13. Discussing the (Ab)Normality of Financial Crises as a Relevant Change of Circumstances Under Portuguese Law
Manuel Carneiro Frada, Mariana Fontes Costa

14. L’imprévision dans le Nouveau Code Civil roumain enfanté par la crise économique mondiale
Dumitru Dobrev, Marilena Uliescu

15. The Russian Federation Legislation on the Effects of Financial Crises on the Binding Force of Contracts: Renegotiation, Rescission or Revision
Nataliya Georgievna Doronina, Natalia Gennadievna Semilyutina

16. The Effects of the Global Financial Crisis on the Binding Force of Contracts: A Focus on Disputes over Structured Notes in Taiwan
Chang-hsien Tsai

17. Certainty Over Clemency: English Contract Law in the Face of Financial Crisis
Horace Yeung, Flora Huang

18. Financial Crisis and the Remedy of Rescission in the United States
Aditi Bagchi

19. The Adaptation of the Contract in Turkish Law
Başak Baysal

Keywords: Law, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law, Financial Law/Fiscal Law, Civil Law