Legal Pluralism in European Contract Law

Vanessa Mak is a Professor of Private Law and Vice Dean for Research at Tilburg Law School. Her research focuses on the role of private law in the economic regulation of the European (consumer) market, with particular focus on consumer contract law, credit and investment law, data protection and the platform economy. Prior to her appointment in Tilburg, Vanessa held positions as a Lecturer in Law at Oriel College, Oxford and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Vanessa has law degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam (LL.M 2001, cum laude) and from the University of Oxford, where she obtained her D.Phil on Performance-Oriented Remedies in European Sale of Goods Law (published with Hart Publishing, 2009).

• 1: Introduction 2: New Legal Pluralism and Transnational Private Law 3: A Theory of Substantive Deliberation 4: Objectives and Values: Economic and Social Rights in European Private Law 5: Pluralism in European Private Law 6: The Platform Economy: Regulatory Instruments 7: The Normative Side: Transparency in the Platform Economy 8: More Normativity: Standardisation 9: Managing Pluralism 10: Conclusion