Contract law in transition

It has long been a general view that Swedish property law, not least contract law, is becoming increasingly fragmented. New types of contracts and contractual solutions are continually emerging and there is a tendency in legal science - by making individual types of contracts the subject of individual investigation - to seek to give different types of contracts their own contractual "status", what in legal language is called "sui generis" status, instead of seeking to develop the "commonality" of different types of contracts within the framework of a common general contract law, where fundamental principles and "general doctrines" are highlighted. Fragmentation and increasing uncertainty as to the content of general contract law lead to transaction costs that could be avoided if there were greater clarity as to its content. The project is limited to general contract law, i.e. in particular to the rules that currently apply to the conclusion of contracts, to the determination of contractual content, to the possibility of keeping the contract alive even in long-term relationships where conditions change and - not least - to how the "general doctrines" of contract law on e.g. duty of loyalty, pre-contractual liability and fairness are to be understood in a new era where issues of national and international, public and private and the importance of intangible assets are transforming contract law.