Foundations of European Private Law

Roger Brownsword is Professor of Law at King's College, London, UK. Hans-W Micklitz is Director of Graduate Studies and Professor of Economic Law at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.Leone Niglia is Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies and Associate Professor of Law/Reader at the University of Exeter, UK. Stephen Weatherill is Jacques Delors Professor of European Law at the University of Oxford (UK) and a Fellow of Somerville College.

• PART ONE: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS1. Editorial Introduction Roger Brownsword2. 'Restatements' in Europe and the US: Some Comparative Lessons Hans Schulte-Nölke3. Dogmatising Non-legislative Codifications: Non-legislative Reference Texts in European Legal Discourse Nils Janse4. If You Don't Like Our Principles We Have Others: On Core Values and Underlying Principles in European Private Law: A Critical Discussion of the New 'Principles' Section in the Draft Common Frame of Reference Martijn Hesselink5. The Need for Codified Guiding Principles and Model Rules in European Contract Law Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson6. Old and New Insights for the Protection of Consumers in European Private Law in the Wake of the Global Economic Crisis Brigitta Lurger7. The Economics of Private Law Harmonised Law-making: Mechanisms, Modes and Standards Fernando Gomez and Juan-José Ganuza8. Of Islands and the Ocean: The Two Rationalities of European Private Law Ralf Michaels9. The Theoretical Foundations of European Private Law: A Time to Stand and Stare Roger BrownswordPART TWO: POLITICAL FOUNDATIONS10. The Political Foundations of European Private Law: Editorial Introduction Leone Niglia11. A Transnational Genealogy of Proportionality in Private Law Duncan Kennedy12. Balancing in Private Law and the Imperatives of the Public Interest: National Experiences and (Missed?) European Opportunities Norbert Reich13. New Paths of Private Law Guido Alpa14. Political Foundations of European Private Law: Rethinking the East–West Division Lines Marek Safjan and Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska15. The Impact of the Harmonisation of Private Law on the Reform of Civil Law in the New Member States Paul Varul16. European Private Law: Political Foundations and Current Challenges Reiner Schulze17. Of Jurisdictional Balancing in European Private Law Leone NigliaPART THREE: MULTI-LEVEL STRUCTURE OF PRIVATE LAW18. The Multi-level Structure of Private Law: Editorial Introduction Stephen Weatherill19. Plurality of Sources in European Private Law, or: How to Live With Legal Diversity? Jan M Smits20. Private Law in a Federal Perspective. Walter van Gerven21. European Private Law: Unification, Harmonisation or Coordination? Kåre Lilleholt22. Top-Down or Bottom-Up? A Look at the Unification of Private Law in Federal Systems Mathias Reimann and Daniel Halberstam23. The Foundations of Private Law in a Multi-level Structure: Balancing, Distribution of Law-making Power and other Constitutional Issues Matthias E Storme24. A New Role for Private International and Procedural Law in European Integration? A Critical Comment Lubos TichýPART FOUR: ENFORCEMENT AND COMPLIANCE25. Enforcement and Compliance: Editorial Introduction Hans-W Micklitz26. A Critical Note on Two EU Principles: A Proceduralist View on the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR)Ianika Tzankova and Martin Gramatikov27. Public and Private Enforcement: The Practical Implications for Policy Architecture Christopher Hodges28. The Hybrid Quality of European Private Law Hugh Collins29. 'DCFR, Please Meet National Procedure': Enforcing the Frame of Reference using National Procedural Law Johan Lindholm30. Individual Private Enforcement of Consumer Rights in Civil Courts in Europe Marco Loos31. Enforcement and Compliance: An EU Law Perspective Jules Stuyck32. From 'Toolbox' to Academic Standard:– The Current and Future Status of the Draft Common Frame of Reference Ewoud Hondius33. A Need for a New Structure for European Private Law Frydryk Zoll34. Administrative Enforcement of European Private Law Hans-W Micklitz