Harmonisation of European Private Law

Mark Van Hoecke is Professor of Law and Jurisprudence at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel and co-director of the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels. Francois Ost is Professor of Law at the Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis. He is Co-director of the European Academy of Legal Theory based at the KUB and FUSL in Brussels.

• The harmonisation of private law in Europe - some misunderstandings, Mark van Hoecke; mistaken identities - the integrative force of private law, Burkhard Schafer and Zenon Bankowski; English private law in the context of the codes, Geoffrey Samuel; the debate on a European civil code - for an "open texture", Anthony Chamboredon; European private law - a new software package ofr an outdated operating system?, Alain Wijffels; studying judical decisions in the common law and the civil law - a good way of discovering some of the most interesting similarities and differences that exist between these legal familes, Basil Markesinis; monism and dualism within the European jurisdictions, Francois Rigaux; the adjudication of law and the doctrine of private law, Fritz Jost; unfair terms in consumer contracts - an Anglo-Italian comparison, Paolisa Nebbia; current problems of legal dogmatics in European regulation - the principle of equality and the policies of affirmative action, Jose Garcia Anon; the Kalanke case and the Marschall case in the Court of Justice of the European Communities - the women's quota and Alexy's principles theory, Maria Elosegui; the right to personal identity in Italian private law - constitutional interpretation and judge-made rights, Giorgio Pino; the power of aspiration - the impact of European law on a non-Eu country, Ireneusz C. Kaminski.

Riche denseignements sur de nombreux points particuliers, le principal mrite de louvrage est damener le lecteur au-del des aspects politiques de lintgrations europene vers une rflexion gnrale sur la definition dun systme juridique et les presupposes conomiques, culturels ou historiques qui le sous-tendent. Olivera Boskovic Revue Internationale de droit Compare January 2001