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| Year of publication | 2018 |
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| Description | SECOLA is the Society for European Contract Law. It was founded in 2001 by Hugh Collins, Cesare Massimo Bianca and Stefan Grundmann and registered as an association under German law, having its domicile in Munich. It is a non-profit organization. The Society has now more than 300 members, whose General Meeting is held in connection with the annual conference. According to its Statute, the Society is managed by an Executive Board of five members, elected by the General Assembly for a period of two years; the chairman of the Executive Board serves as President of the Society. The Society promotes the development and knowledge of European contract law including its economic, sociological and intellectual historic relation in theory and in practice. It also promotes education in European contract law. It covers all supranational sources of law, regulations and initiatives concerning problems and aspects of contracts, and in particular the relevant EU law. The Society devotes itself primarily to international exchange of views, promotes openness towards all concerned groups of professions in theory and in practice, and is concerned with legal doctrine as well as to interdisciplinary, law reform and theory of law considerations applicable to European contract law. |