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TOC Outline

1. Cover
2. Title page
3. Copyright
4. Contents
5. Contributor Biographies
6. I. INTRODUCTION
7. 1. The Evolving Concept of Private Law in Europe
8. II. FOUNDATIONS
9. 2. (In)justice in European Private Law
10. 3. Negative Integration, European Private Law, and the Government’s Role in the Marketplace
11. 4. Positive Integration: Harmonisation of National Law through Directives and Regulations1
12. 5. Human Rights in Private Law1
13. III. INSTITUTIONS
14. 6. Bona fides (Good Faith) in European Private Law
15. 7. Concepts of Ownership in European Property Law: Centralising the Social Function of Ownership
16. 8. Limited Liability through the Lens of Expected Value Analysis1
17. 9. Consumers in European Private Law
18. IV. TRANSFORMATIONS
19. 10. Social Enterprises and the Role of Profit in Company Law
20. 11. Financial Crises and European Private Law
21. 12. The Construction of European Housing Markets through European Private Law
22. 13. Data Subjects in European Private Law
23. 14. EU Sustainable Finance Regulation: An Analysis in the Context of Contemporary Debates in European Private Law
24. V. METHODS
25. 15. Private Law and Political Economy
26. 16. Methods of Comparative Legal Research: How to Set Up and Carry Out a Comparative Legal Research Project1
27. Index
28. About the team
29. This book need not end here…
30. You may also be interested in:
31. Back cover

Headings Outline

• Contents
• Contributor Biographies
  • Editors
  • Authors
• I. INTRODUCTION
• 1. The Evolving Concept of Private Law in Europe
  • Laura Burgers, Marija Bartl, and Chantal Mak
  • 1. The ‘Private’ in Private Law
  • 2. Private Autonomy as a General Principle of Private Law
    • a. Substantive Side of Private Autonomy
    • b. Procedural Side of Private Autonomy
  • 3. The Maker of Private Law in Europe
    • a. Public and Private Lawmakers
    • b. Europeanisation of Private Law
  • 4. The Meaning of ‘European Private Law’
  • 5. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• II. FOUNDATIONS
• 2. (In)justice in European Private Law
  • Martijn W. Hesselink
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Idea of Justice
    • Social Justice
    • Interpersonal Justice
    • Epistemic Injustice
    • The Right to Justification
    • Justice Relativism and Justice Scepticism
  • 3. Private Law as an Agent of (In)justice
    • Distributive (In)justice through Private Law
    • Interpersonal (In)justice through Private Law
    • Epistemic (In)justice through Private Law
    • The Right to Justification of Private Law
  • 4. The EU’s Responsibility for Justice
    • The European Society
    • Attributed Competences
    • Functional Competences
    • Shared Competences
  • 5. EU Private Law as an Agent of (In)justice
    • The Failed Social Justice Agenda
    • EU Consumer Law as Substantive Interpersonal Justice
    • Alienation through Consumer Law
    • Agency
  • Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 3. Negative Integration, European Private Law, and the Government’s Role in the Marketplace
  • C. J. W. (Jaap) Baaij
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Evolution from Negative to Positive European Integration
    • a. The Early Emphasis on Negative Integration
    • b. The Emergence of Positive Integration
    • c. The Concurrence of Negative and Positive Integration
    • d. Negative Integration’s Impact on European Private Law
  • 3. The Normative Link between Negative Integration and European Private Law
    • a. European Integration and State Intervention
    • b. Theories of Contract Law and State Intervention
    • c. A Utilitarian Justification of Negative Integration
    • d. A Utilitarian Justification of European Private Law
  • 4. Concluding Remarks
  • 5. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 4. Positive Integration: Harmonisation of National Law through Directives and Regulations1
  • Marco B. M. Loos
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Legal Architecture
    • a. Harmonisation Measures
    • b. Regulations and Directives
  • 3. Societal Relevance: Stakes and Challenges
  • 4. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 5. Human Rights in Private Law1
  • Chantal Mak
  • 1. Introduction: Private Actors and the Public Interest
  • 2. Legal Context: Constitutionalising Private Law
    • a. Dignity as Basis
    • b. Constitutionalisation of Private Law
    • c. Europeanisation and Transnationalisation of Private Law
  • 3. Societal Relevance: The Imaginative Power of Private Law
    • a. Legal-Political Stakes in Private Law
    • b. First Perspective: Nothing New?
    • c. Second Perspective: Social Justice in European Private Law
    • d. Third Perspective: Reimagining Europe through Private Law
  • 4. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• III. INSTITUTIONS
• 6. Bona fides (Good Faith) in European Private Law
  • Talya Deibel
  • Introduction
  • Legal Context
    • 1. Good Faith and the European Legal Culture
    • 2. From Fides to Bona Fides: The Legal Evolution of Good Faith
    • 3. Good Faith, Abuse of Rights, and Equity
    • 4. (Old and New) Functions of Good Faith
  • Societal Implications
    • Seeing Good Faith as a Bundle of Values
  • Conclusion and Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 7. Concepts of Ownership in European Property Law: Centralising the Social Function of Ownership
  • Eva Vermeulen
  • 1. Introduction: What Is European Property Law?
  • 2. Legal Context: Three Concepts of Ownership and their Coexistence in European Property Law
    • a. Ownership as Dominium
      • Justification: Liberty and Autonomy
      • Ontology: Choice and Full Control
      • Dominium Ownership in European Property Law
    • b. Ownership as a Bundle of Efficient Rights
      • Justification: Welfare Maximisation
      • Ontology: A Bundle of Rights
      • Economic Ownership in European Property Law
    • c. Ownership as a Social Function
      • Justification: Community and Solidarity
      • Ontology: Social Obligations and Contextuality
      • Social Ownership in European Property Law
  • 3. Prevalent Ownership Concepts and Their Effects on Rising Inequality and Ecological Disaster
    • a. Rising Inequality
    • b. Ecological Disaster
  • 4. Conclusion: Time for a More Central Role for Social Ownership?
  • 5. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 8. Limited Liability through the Lens of Expected Value Analysis1
  • Michael Bakker and Rolef de Weijs
  • 1. Introduction: The Limited Liability Corporation
  • 2. Expected Value, Expected Return, and Expected Rate of Return
    • a. Introduction to the Analytical Framework: EVA
    • b. The Game of Roulette as a Concrete Application of EVA
  • 3. Limited Liability through the Lens of Expected Value Analysis
    • a. First Example: Externalisation of Risk to Creditors
    • b. Second Example: Externalisation of Costs to Society
  • 4. Legal Strategies to Address Externalisation through the Corporate Form
    • a. Legal Capital Requirements
    • b. Mandatory Sustainability-Related Due Diligence Requirements
    • c. Liability of Shareholders and Directors of the Corporation
  • 5. Conclusion and Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 9. Consumers in European Private Law
  • Joasia Luzak
  • 1. Introduction: ‘Ordinary People’
  • 2. Legal Architecture
    • a. Information Asymmetry: ‘One Step Closer’
    • b. Unfairness: ‘Mastermind’
    • c. Product Risks: ‘Poison’
    • d. Apathy in Enforcement of Consumer Rights: ‘Texas Hold ’Em’
    • 3. Societal Context: ‘Where Is the Love?’
  • 4. Points for Reflection: ‘Try Again’
  • Bibliography
• IV. TRANSFORMATIONS
• 10. Social Enterprises and the Role of Profit in Company Law
  • Nena van der Horst and Marleen van Uchelen
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Legal Framework for Profit Distribution in Social Enterprises in Europe
    • a. EU Initiatives, Definition, and Mechanisms to Secure the Social Objectives
    • b. Legal Forms in Europe
    • c. The BVm: A New Legal Form in the Netherlands?
    • d. Rules for Profit Distributions for BVs in the Netherlands
    • e. Limiting Profit Distribution by the BV Itself; Combination of a BV and a Foundation
  • 3. Profit Distribution in Social Enterprises in a Societal Context
    • a. The Rationale behind Profit Distribution
    • b. Limiting Profit Distribution in order to Secure Social Purpose
    • c. Attracting Finance with Limitations on Profit Distribution
  • 4. Conclusions
  • 5. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 11. Financial Crises and European Private Law
  • Guido Comparato
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Legal Context
    • a. Between pacta sunt servanda and rebus sic stantibus
      • 1) Contractual Approach to Crises
      • 2) Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts
    • b. Contract Law and Financial Regulation
    • c. The Reform of Private Law in Light of Financial Stability
      • 1) Criticisms
  • 3. Societal Relevance
    • a. The Political Economy of Financial Crises
    • b. European and Comparative Law after the Crisis
    • c. Is the Financial System Safe Now?
  • 4. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 12. The Construction of European Housing Markets through European Private Law
  • Irina Domurath
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. EU ‘Housing Regulation’ with Impact on Contract Law
    • a. Access to Housing and Access to Mortgages
      • 1) Access to Housing Markets
      • 2) Access to Housing Finance
    • b. Adequacy: Quality and Affordability
      • 1) Quality of Housing
      • 2) Affordability
        • Rent Prices
        • Cost of Mortgage Credit
    • c. Protection from Evictions
  • 3. Beyond the Law: Welfare, Commodities, and Finance
    • a. Privatisation and Marketisation: The Change/Loss of Fundamental Rights
    • b. Commodification and Financialisation
    • c. Financial Stability
  • 4. Conclusions and Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 13. Data Subjects in European Private Law
  • Antonio Davola
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Legal Context: Data Subjects and Their Rights in the European Normative Framework
  • 3. Societal Relevance: Control over Data as a Core Concept for Individuals’ Freedom
    • a. The Role of Information in Defining and Exercising Control over Data Processing
    • b. Critiques to the Information Paradigm and to Data Protection as the Main Resource to Advance Users’ Protection in Digital Environments
    • c. Data Subjects, or Subject to Data? Framing the Debate under the Lens of European Private Law
  • 4. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 14. EU Sustainable Finance Regulation: An Analysis in the Context of Contemporary Debates in European Private Law
  • Jennifer de Lange-Collins1 
  • 1. Introduction: Sustainable Finance, in the Context of Issues in EPL
  • 2. Legal Context: The EU Approach to Sustainable Finance
    • a. Benchmarks Amendments
    • b. The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)
    • c. The Taxonomy Regulation
    • d. Miscellaneous Amendments to Existing Regulations
    • e. EU Green Bond Standard Regulation (EU GBS)
    • f. Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
  • 3. Societal Context: Analysis of the EU approach to Sustainable Finance
    • a. The Instrumentalisation of Private Law
    • b. The Europeanisation of Private Law
    • c. Financialisation
    • d. The Rationale of Financial Regulation
    • e. The Role and Nature of the Consumer
  • 4. Conclusions
  • 5. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• V. METHODS
• 15. Private Law and Political Economy
  • Marija Bartl
  • 1. Introduction: On ‘Law and Political Economy’ as an Approach to Studying Law
  • 2. Legal Context
    • a. Markets are Legally Constituted
  • 3. Markets and Private Law
    • a. Freedom to Exploit: The Property Trap
    • b. Freedom to Enrich Yourself: The Privity Trap
  • 4. Societal Implications: Transforming Markets via Private Law
  • 5. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• 16. Methods of Comparative Legal Research: How to Set Up and Carry Out a Comparative Legal Research Project1
  • Marieke Oderkerk
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. A Methodological Framework for Comparative Legal Research
  • 3. Goals of Comparative Legal Research
  • 4. Methods and Techniques of Comparative Legal Research
    • a. Methods and Techniques in the Preparatory Stage
      • 1) The Selection of Legal Systems29
      • 2) The Method for Determining the Objects to be compared42
      • 3) The Method for Determining the Sources to Include in the Research Project
    • b. Methods and Techniques in the Stage of Description
      • 1) Description of the Objects to Be Compared (Language)
      • 2) Presentation of the Analysis of the Objects to Be Compared (Structure)
    • c. Methods and Techniques in the Stages of Comparison, Explanation, and Evaluation
  • 5. Conclusion
  • 6. Points for Reflection
  • Bibliography
• Index
• Contents
  • Landmarks