Italy – Italian law and the unification of contract law in Europe

Professor Maria Letizia Ruffini Gandolfi (Universita Degli Studi di Milano) notes the development of contract law in Italy and explains that contract law can include the Roman law idea of pactum (agreement, treaty, pact, contact) familiar in many parts of the European Union. Published in the Letter from … section of Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.