{"product_id":"theologians-and-contract-law-wim-decock-9789004536777","title":"Theologians and Contract Law: The Moral Transformation of the Ius Commune (Ca. 1500-1650)","description":"The Roman legal tradition is the ancestor of modern contract law but there is no agreement as to how and when a general law of contract emerged. Wim Decock's thesis is that an important step in this evolution was taken by theologians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They transformed the Roman legal tradition (ius commune) by insisting on the moral foundations of contract law. Theologians emphasized that the enforceability of contracts is based on voluntary consent and that a contract should not enrich one party at another's expense. While their main concern was the salvation of souls, theologians played a key role in the development of a systematic contract law in which the founding principles were freedom and fairness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTheologians and Contract Law\u003c\/i\u003e is winner of the \u003cb\u003eHeinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis 2014\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(German Research Foundation)\u003c\/b\u003e as well as the \u003cb\u003eRaymond Derine Prijs 2012 (Raymond Derine PhD Prize)\u003c\/b\u003e and the \u003cb\u003eASL-Prijs Humane Wetenschappen 2012 (ASL Award for Humanities 2012)\u003c\/b\u003e by the Academische Stichting Leuven. Decock's book is also awarded the \u003cb\u003e\"Juristisches Buch des Jahres\"\u003c\/b\u003e (Law book of the year) by \u003ci\u003eNeue Juristische Wochenschrift\u003c\/i\u003e (47\/2013: 3420).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wim Decock\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9004536779\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789004536777\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brill Nijhoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 748\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Wim Decock","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302512226559,"sku":"9789004536777","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7d2f7760-817a-4dcc-a521-5a36d68b98df.jpg?v=1695162050","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/theologians-and-contract-law-wim-decock-9789004536777","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}