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Force Majeure

Force Majeure is a contract-law doctrine, implemented through express clauses in construction contracts, that allocates the risk of non-performance by excusing or suspending a party’s contractual obligations when extraordinary, unforeseeable events beyond that party’s reasonable control prevent or substantially impede performance.

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Force Majeure and Hardship in International Sales Contracts

Ingeborg Schwenzer · Victoria University of Wellington Law Review · 2008 · 323 citations · Full text

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Competing Approaches to Force Majeure and Hardship

Catherine Kessedjian · International Review of Law and Economics · 2005 · 304 citations

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A Reconsideration of an Argument against Compatibilism

Thomas J. McKay, David Kyle Johnson · Philosophical Topics · 1996 · 237 citations

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Hardship and Force Majeure

Dietrich Maskow · The American Journal of Comparative Law · 1992 · 198 citations

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Force Majeure and Frustration

Barry Nicholas · The American Journal of Comparative Law · 1979 · 179 citations

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Authors

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  1. LH
    Louis Henkin

    Columbia University, United States

    3 publications · 57 citations

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  2. AA
    Adnan Amkhan

    2 publications · 141 citations

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  3. RE
    Robert E. Osgood

    Cornell University, United States

    2 publications · 87 citations

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  4. AJ
    Andrew J. Pierre

    The Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia

    2 publications · 38 citations

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  5. KP
    Klaus Peter Berger

    University of Münster, Germany

    2 publications · 33 citations

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Institutions

55

  1. American University in Cairo

    Cairo, Egypt

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    50 citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    135 citations

  3. University of Oslo

    Oslo, Norway

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    27 citations

  4. The Royal Free Hospital

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  5. Barts Health NHS Trust

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  6. King Saud University

    Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    39 citations

  7. Queen's University Belfast

    Belfast, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  8. University of Cologne

    Cologne, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

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  1. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 4 publications · 75 citations

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  3. International Security

    2 publications · 66 citations

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  4. Foreign Affairs

    2 publications · 38 citations

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  5. Buildings

    2 publications · 29 citations

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