Stefan Grundmann is Professor of Transnational Law and Theory at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy, and Professor of Private and Business Law at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Germany.Mateusz Grochowski is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, Germany, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, and Fellow at the Information Society Project, Yale Law School, United States.

• PART I. ARCHITECTURE.The Creation of Norms: An Evolutionary View on European Contract Law (p. 1)PART II. BASIS OF NORMS: VALUES AND JURISDICTIONS.Good Faith as Contract's Core Value (p. 45)The Rule of Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights as a Source of European Private Law (p. 73)The Polish Civil Law Codification Commission Working on the Draft of the New Civil Code (p. 97)PART III. PARTY AUTONOMY AND SELECTION OF NORMS.Types of Contracts and Law's Autonomy-Enhancing Role (p. 107)Legislative Options for Regulating Optional Rules (p. 127)A Private International Law Perspective on the Creation of Norms and Transnational Governance (p. 149)PART IV. PARTY AUTONOMY AS A BASIS FOR NORMS.Ambiguities of Self-Regulation: Some Illustrative Examples of 'Good' Companies' Certification (p. 173)Contract Law under Regulatory Siege - Revival of Contract Law? Standardisation, Regulation and Consent (p. 199)Default Rules Beyond a State: Special-Purpose Lawmakers in the Platform Economy (p. 227)PART V. CASE LAW AND CREATION OF NORMS.European Contract Law in the EU Court of Justice's Case Law (p. 253)Potential and Hurdles for the CJEU's Jurisprudence in Domestic Legal Orders: A Polish Case Study (p. 269)