Bye Bye BGB?

Prof. Dr. Christina Ramberg

Professor Christina Ramberg is professor of Commercial Law at the University of Göteborg, Sweden. She has also been a professor at the University of Utrecht (holder of the G.J Wiarda Chair). She has lectured at many European and US universities. Professor Ramberg has written extensively within the areas of general contract law, special contract law and electronic commerce. She was head of the Swedish delegation in the UNCITRAL Working Group on Electronic Commerce 1996 – 2001 and has been an adviser to the European Commission on Business-to-Business Internet marketplaces. She is a member of the Coordination Committee in the Study Group for a European Civil Code. Apart from academic activities, she is a member of the board of several larger Swedish companies and as an arbitrator in national and international disputes.

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Suggested Reading Authored by Prof. Ramberg:
Internet Marketplaces – The Law of Auctions and Exchanges Online, Oxford University Press 2002 (213 p).
Chapters 6 Designing a legal interface for contracting on the Internet and Chapter 9 Dispute resolution on the Internet – particularly in auctions and exchanges online, in IT Law for IT Professionals – an introduction, Ed. Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, Studentlitteratur, 2005.
Chapter 13, E-commerce, in Towards a European Civil Code, 3d fully revised and expanded edition, Eds. A Hartkamp, Hesselink, E Hondius, C Joustra, E du Perron, M Veldman, Kuwer 200421. Part 3 Chapter 1.
Electronic Communication, in The Interaction of Contract Law and Tort and Property Law in Europe - A Comparative Study, Ed Christian von Bar and Ulrich Drobnig, Sellier 2004.
Contracting on the Internet – Trends and Challenges for Law, in Law and Information Technology. Swedish views, SOU 2002:112.
Multilateral Contracts in Closed Internet Communities, in Konkurrens och telekommunikation, Nordisk årsbok i Rättsinformatik, Ed. Tomas Myrbostad, Stockholm 2002.
Elaborating International Instruments: Policies and Key Terminology, in Wandlungen des Schuldrechts, Ed. Peter Schlechtriem, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2002.
The E-Commerce Directive and Formation of Contract in a Comparative Perspective, in Legal Aspects of Electronic Commerce, Eds. Jens Fejö, Ruth Nielsen and Thomas Riis, Jurist och Ekonomförbundets Förlag 2001.
Interpretation of Legal Texts in an Electronic Environment, in Recht und Internet, Ed. Gerhard Hohloch, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft 2001.
Developing Legal Systems and Good Morals for the Internet, in The International Dimensions of Cyberspace Law, UNESCO Publishing 2000.
Contracts, Obligations and Sales – Contribution to Swedish Law in the New Millennium, Ed Michael Bogdan, Stockholm 2000.
Swedish report in A New Approach to International Commercial Contracts, The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts, Ed Michael Joachim Bonell, Kluwer, 1999.
CISG-AC, Opinion no 1: Electronic Communications under CISG, 15 August 2003; Also translated into Spanish and published in RCE (Revista de la Contratacion Electronica, number, 44, 2003, December, pp101-115; Also published in Scandianvian Studies in Law, Vol 47, 2004, IT Law, Ed by Peter Wahlgren.
The E-Commerce Directive and formation of contract in a comparative perspective, European Law Review. October 2001 p. 429 – 450.
European and U.S. Perspectives on Electronic Documents and Electronic Signatures, Tulane European and Civil Law Forum, Vol. 14, 1999, p. 123 – 153.
Requirements of Writing and Signature in Relation to Electronic Means of Communication, Molengrafica, Utrecht 1999/2000 Ed F.W. Grosheide and K. Boele-Woelki.


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