Contents
Part I Foundations of (Private) Law
1 Three Views on Negotiation—An Essay Between Disciplines ............. 3
Stefan Grundmann
2 Post-private Law? ................................................................................... 31
Martijn W. Hesselink
3 Non-State Law in the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in
International Commercial Contracts .................................................... 43
Ralf Michaels
4 Optional Regulation of Standard Contract Terms .............................. 71
Florian Möslein
5 Law or Economics—Some Thoughts on Transnational Private Law ... 93
Leone Niglia
6 A ‘Competitive Contract Law’? ............................................................. 105
Karl Riesenhuber
7 The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights in Private
Law—On Actors, Vectors, and Factors of Influence ........................... 123
Marek Safjan
8 European Regulatory Private Law: From Conflicts to Platforms ..... 153
Yane Svetiev
9 On Law and Sorrow ................................................................................ 179
Joseph H.H. Weiler
10 Free Movement of Legal Sources: The Use of Foreign
Sources in Private Law in Europe ......................................................... 185
Thomas Wilhelmsson
Part II EU Internal Market Regulation
11 New Economic Governance in the European Union: Another
Constitutional Battleground? ................................................................. 207
Fabian Amtenbrink
12 Regulatory Coherence—A European Challenge .................................. 235
Roger Brownsword
13 Does Private Regulation Foster European Legal Integration? ........... 259
Fabrizio Cafaggi
14 European Unity in Diversity?! A Conflicts-Law
Re-construction of Controversial Current Developments .................. 285
Carola Glinski and Christian Joerges
15 The Virtue of Cassis de Dijon 25 Years Later—It Is Not
Dead, It Just Smells Funny .................................................................... 315
Kai Purnhagen
16 Who Does What? On the Distribution of Competences
Among the European Union and the Member States .......................... 343
Jan M. Smits
17 Do We Need ‘Consumer Protection’ for Small Businesses at
the EU Level? .......................................................................................... 359
Jules Stuyck
18 European Social Constitution: Between Solidarity and
Access Justice .......................................................................................... 371
Kaarlo Tuori
19 Why There Is No ‘Principle of Mutual Recognition’ in EU
Law (and Why that Matters to Consumer Lawyers) ........................... 401
Stephen Weatherill
20 Internal Market Law and National Language Policies ....................... 419
Bruno De Witte
Part III Competition, Intellectual Property and Property Law
21 Competition Law and Consumer Law: Why We Need a
Common Consumer Model .................................................................... 439
Thomas Ackermann
22 Collective Management of Copyrights and the EU Principle
of Free Movement of Services after the OSA Judgment—In
Favour of a More Balance Approach .................................................... 459
Josef Drexl
23 Patenting Coffee—IP Protection and Its Impact on
Innovation in the Coffee-Capsule Market ............................................ 489
Reto M. Hilty and Peter R. Slowinski
24 Restitution of ‘Degenerate’ Art .............................................................. 505
Franz Jürgen Säcker
Part IV Product Safety Law
25 Product Safety—A Model for EU Legislation and Reform ................. 525
Geraint Howells
26 To the Question of What Should be and What is—Plans and
Actuals ...................................................................................................... 539
Thomas Roethe
27 Standardisation Prior to or Instead of Information—A
Fundamental Criticism of the (European) Information
Model for Financial and Insurance Products ....................................... 549
Hans-Peter Schwintowski
Part V Consumer Contract Law
28 Law and Choice in Consumer Contracts: Views from Law
and Economics ......................................................................................... 571
Fernando Gomez and Juan José Ganuza
29 Against a New Architecture of Consumer Law—A Traditional View ... 599
Ewoud Hondius
30 The Regulation of Digital Content B2C Contracts in CESL .............. 611
Marco B. M. Loos
31 Credit Scoring: Will Our Digital Identity Replace the Real Person? 635
Rainer Metz
32 Reflections on Hans Micklitz’ Plea For a ‘Movable
System’ (of Consumer Law)—Anything to Learn from the
Experiences of Indian Consumer Law? ................................................ 651
Norbert Reich
33 The Low-Income Consumer in European Private Law ...................... 675
Peter Rott
34 From the Kennedy Message to Full Harmonising Consumer
Law Directives: A Retrospect ................................................................. 693
Klaus Tonner
35 Contra Emptor Interpretation-Protecting Service Providers
from EU Law ........................................................................................... 709
Christopher Willett
Part VI Enforcement
36 Towards a Rapid Claims Settlement Mechanism for Disasters? ........ 735
Michael Faure and Franziska Weber
37 Enforcement by the New European Supervisory Agencies:
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? ............................................................. 757
Rob van Gestel and Thomas van Golen
38 Access to Justice and Public Interest Litigation: Getting
Nowhere Quickly? ................................................................................... 781
Laurence W. Gormley
39 Consumer Redress: Ideology and Empiricism ..................................... 793
Christopher Hodges
40 On Beauty and Being Fair—The Interaction of National and
Supranational Judiciaries in the Development of a European
Law on Remedies .................................................................................... 823
Chantal Mak
41 The Right to Refer to the European Court of Justice—
Should it be Limited to the Courts of Last Instance? .......................... 835
Hannes Rösler
42 Procedural Theory in EU Law ............................................................... 851
Hanna Schebesta
43 Social Networks and Liability—the Difficult Triangle
Between Network Operators, Users and Third Parties in
German Media Law ................................................................................ 863
Gerald Spindler