Book excerpt: Introduction / Daniel Haas, Geerte Hesen, Jan Smits -- Specific performance in Dutch law / Daniel Haas, Chris Jansen -- Specific performance in Belgian law / Patrick Wéry -- Specirif performance, a German perspective / Florian Faust, Wolker Wiese -- Specific implement in Scots law / Laura Masgregor -- Contractual derogation and the discretion to refuse an order for specific performance in South Africa / Gerhard Lubbe -- Specific performance in English consumer sales law / Vanessa Mak -- Certain aspects of the right of repair and replacement under EC directive 1999/44 and its implementation in Poland / Aneta Wiewiórwska-Domagalska -- Specific performance within the heirarchy of remedies in European contract law / Viola Heutger, Janwillem Oosterhuis -- Specific performance : procedural aspects in Dutch law / Anthonie W. Jongbloed -- Specific performance in summary proceedings : state of affairs according to Belgian law / Elke Swaenepoel -- The redress of a terminated contract in Belgian law / Flavie Vermander -- Enforcement of the duty to carry on negotiations :(should it be) a possibility in Europe or not? / Carlos Bollen -- Enforcement of side-letters . F. Willem Grosheide -- Specific performance : a historical perspective / Harry Dondort -- Is the system of contract remedied in the Netherlands efficient from a law and economics perspective? / Geerte Hesen, Robert Hardy -- Do economic analysis and fairness influence the right to performancs in ways contrary to one another? / Gerard de Vries.