Default Rules in Private Law

Birke Häcker is Schlegel Professor of Civil Law, Common Law and Comparative Law, and Director of the Institute of International and Comparative Private Law, University of Bonn, Germany.Johannes Ungerer is Erich Brost Senior Research Lecturer in German Law, European and International Private Law at the Law Faculty and St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford, UK, as well as Global Associate Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame (USA) in England.

• PrefaceList of Contributors1. A Comparative Introduction to Default Rules, Birke Häcker (University of Bonn, Germany)2. Regulation by Means of Default Rules, Alexander Hellgardt (University of Augsburg, Germany)3. Behavioural Aspects of Default Rules, Geneviève Helleringer (University of Oxford, UK)4. Digitising Defaults: Methods and Mechanisms of Generating Default Rules in the Digital Age, Florian Möslein (University of Marburg, Germany)5. Default Rules in the Common Law: Substantive Rules and Precedent, Philip Sales (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom)6. Default Rules as a Means of European Integration, Jürgen Basedow (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany)7. Default Rules in Contract Law, John Cartwright (University of Oxford, UK)8. The Nature and Function of Default Rules in English Consumer Contract Law, Simon Whittaker (University of Oxford, UK)9. The Nature and Function of Default Rules in Commercial Law, Louise Gullifer (University of Cambridge, UK)10. Default Norms in Labour Law: From Private Right to Public Law, Alan Bogg (University of Bristol, UK)11. The Nature and Function of Default Rules in Succession Law: A Comparative Analysis, Gregor Christandl (University of Graz, Austria)12. The (Changing) Role of Default Rules in Civil Procedure and Arbitration, Giesela Rühl (Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany)13. Private International Default Rules, Johannes Ungerer (University of Oxford, UK)