Introduction

This compendium is a collection of the lectures that I hold in the course on Comparative Private Law at the Oslo University, as well as in the course on International Business Transactions at the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral law and Policy, University of Dundee. Comparative law, including also comparative contract law, which is the topic of these lectures, is a subject of legal study with its own, independent legitimacy and, in some European countries, with solid traditions. Therefore, there should be no need to justify, explain or subject to external ...