Proceedings of a workshop held at St. John's College, Oxford, from 21 to 23 September 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The process of the elaboration of the reform of the law of contract / Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson, Juliette Gest, and François Ancel -- Contracts, contract law and contractual principle / Simon Whittaker -- Formation of contract : negotiation and the process of agreement / Ruth Sefton-Green -- Validity of contract : Dol, erreur, and obligation d'information / Carole Aubert De Vincelles -- Violence in the reformed Napoleonic Code : the surprising survival of third parties / Ciara Kennefick -- The contents of contracts : Prestation, Objet, but no longer la Cause? / Laurent Aynés -- The revolution in unfair terms / Philippe Stoffel-Munck -- Mandatory and non-mandatory rules in the new law of contract / Cecile Pérés --Does review on the ground of improvision breach the principle of the binding force of contracts? / Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson -- The proprietary effects of contracts / Geneviève Helleringer -- The effects of contracts and third parties / Jean-Sébastien Borghetti -- Exécution forcé en nature / Yves-Marie Laithier -- The exception d'inexécution / Thomas Genicon -- Termination for contractual non-performance / Soléne Rowan -- The new design of the French law of contract and obligations : an Italian view / Pietro Sirena -- A Spanish perspective on the general theory of contract / Esther Arroyo Amayuelas -- La troisiéme jeunesse du Code civil : a German lawyer looks at the reform of French contract law / Birke Häcker.