The European Civil Code: The Way Forward

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 13
European Court of Justice and Court of First Instance......Page 15
France......Page 17
Germany......Page 18
Treaties......Page 19
Directives......Page 20
I Civil society and political union......Page 23
1 The constitution of everyday life......Page 26
2 Mutual recognition......Page 29
3 Social dumping......Page 32
4 Post-nationalism......Page 34
5 Networks of transnational civil society......Page 40
6 Towards a European Civil Code......Page 43
7 Objections, refutations and qualifications......Page 45
II The acquis communautaire in private law......Page 50
1 Establishing the common market......Page 53
2 The internal market agenda......Page 56
Negative integration......Page 57
Positive integration measures......Page 60
3 The character of the acquis communautaire......Page 62
Lack of generality......Page 64
Limited harmonisation......Page 67
Re-regulation and private law......Page 68
Tilt......Page 71
4 The judicial acquis......Page 73
Compensation claims under void contracts......Page 75
Cooling-off period for a surety......Page 78
Non-pecuniary loss......Page 80
5 Reforming the acquis......Page 83
III The hidden code......Page 85
1 Legal risk and barriers to trade......Page 87
2 Transaction costs......Page 92
Optional code of contract law......Page 94
Uniform law......Page 97
3 The paradox of the Common Frame of Reference......Page 99
The interpretive obligation......Page 103
Political pressure for harmonisation......Page 107
4 A code that dares not speak its name......Page 108
5 The way forward......Page 111
IV Private law and the Economic Constitution......Page 113
1 What is an Economic Constitution?......Page 116
2 The emerging European Social Model......Page 118
Persistence......Page 124
Social justice......Page 125
Citizenship rights......Page 128
4 The regulatory dimension of private law......Page 130
5 The hybrid character of the acquis communautaire......Page 137
6 Towards a balanced economic constitution......Page 142
V Cultural diversity and European identity......Page 146
1 Solidarity......Page 147
2 Code and culture......Page 152
3 A code of principles......Page 154
4 Political identity......Page 158
5 Moral values......Page 159
6 Language......Page 164
7 Conclusion......Page 166
VI Respecting legal diversity......Page 168
1 Common heritage......Page 171
2 Convergence......Page 173
3 Autonomy of legal culture......Page 176
4 Perfectionism and welfarism......Page 181
5 Private law and perfectionist principles......Page 187
6 Legal networks and sources of law......Page 194
7 Common law and codes......Page 198
1 An impossible necessity?......Page 204
2 Rigidity of codes......Page 207
3 Code as directive......Page 211
Indirect effect......Page 212
Why not direct effect?......Page 215
Implementing a Directive......Page 217
4 Optimal level of specificity......Page 219
5 Reference procedure......Page 222
6 Mutual learning......Page 227
7 Multi-level governance and harmonisation......Page 229
VIII Strengthening convergence......Page 232
1 European Private Law Institute......Page 233
The role of doctrinal scholarship......Page 234
New governance mechanisms......Page 235
Dialogue between the courts......Page 237
Private Law Institute......Page 238
2 Standard form contracts......Page 241
Regulating standard forms......Page 242
Legal diversity......Page 243
Harmonisation of principle......Page 247
Preventive injunctions......Page 250
Collective self-regulation......Page 251
3 Deliberative supranationalism......Page 258
IX Exploring the European Social Model......Page 260
1 Structures......Page 263
2 Substantive principles......Page 269
Integration of externalities......Page 271
Effectiveness......Page 272
Human rights and private law......Page 274
3 The way forward......Page 277
Index......Page 279