Forthcoming Events

Conceptualising Unconscionability

8th September 2008, 08:30 to 9th September 2008, 15:00, Repeated daily until 9th September 2008

The Durham University Institute for Commercial and Corporate Law will be hosting a comparative conference on contract law in financial transactions on 8-9 September 2008 at Durham Castle. The conference is supported by a Marie Curie Research Grant within the European Union’s 7th Research Framework and is the first of a series of events dedicated to analysing concepts aimed at protecting the vulnerable in financial transactions.

The theme of the conference will be Conceptualising Unconscionability in Europe; and will explore concepts of unconscionability in contract law, as an expression of contractual unfairness [where Civil law concepts such as redelijkheid en billijkheid, sittenwidrige Übervorteilung, le contrat léonin, contrato carácter abusivo, contratto squilibrato/iniquo may be seen as germane], in the context of financial transactions contracts.

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