Liability Law for Failed Contract Negotiations

This book provides the European structure of liability for failed contract negotiations through a comparative lens, with wider lessons for an international context. The book demonstrates that all the analyzed legal systems, in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, can be best understood through a binary structure in their approach to pre-contractual liability, or culpa in contrahendo. This structure consists of two key elements: first, a general liability framework that allows fo