The Struggle for a Civil Law: Collection of Papers in Celebration of Professor Liang Huixing’s Seventies Birthday

Xie Hongfei (ed.), The Struggle for a Civil Law: Collection of Papers in Celebration of Professor Liang Huixing’s Seventies Birthday, Beijing: Law Press China, 2014.

This book is a collection of articles written by students of Professor Liang Huixing in celebration of his seventieth birthday. It consists of 40 articles written by Professor Liang’s students, covering a wide variety of issues of civil law, including the drafting of the civil code, the civil law of the Former Soviet Union, guardianship, adult guardianship, imitation theory of legal person, the concept of “legal act”, pricing error of shopping websites, mistake in the expression of intention, the system of apparent agency, the limitation of mortgage, the prevention of speculation in real estate, the system of announcement of credit assignment, paradigms of establishment and coming into effect of contract, the doctrine of change of circumstances, main relationships in the research on the contract law in China, behavior revolution in tort law and its justification, encroachment of the right of personality, concurrence of liabilities, compensation for damages resulting from pollution of the environment by heavy metal, the Special Portion System under the Chinese Civil Code, the internal mechanism of IP law, the different ways of death of an author and their impact, the revision of the Chinese Law on the Protection of Consumers’ Rights, basic framework of the Chinese Law on the Protection of Consumers’ Rights, construction of general antifraud provision in the Chinese Securities Law, fundamental human rights and private law, the pension system, the linkage between property right and politics, business trust, environmental public interest litigation, family and property in ancient Greek society, the concept of fault in German Civil Law, the development of the law on unjustified enrichment in the UK, and law and literature.