Harmonisation of European Private Law

Mark Van Hoecke is Professor of Law and Jurisprudence at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel and co-director of the European Academy of Legal Theory in Brussels. Francois Ost is Professor of Law at the Facultes Universitaires Saint-Louis. He is Co-director of the European Academy of Legal Theory based at the KUB and FUSL in Brussels.

Riche denseignements sur de nombreux points particuliers, le principal mrite de louvrage est damener le lecteur au-del des aspects politiques de lintgrations europene vers une rflexion gnrale sur la definition dun systme juridique et les presupposes conomiques, culturels ou historiques qui le sous-tendent. Olivera Boskovic Revue Internationale de droit Compare January 2001

• The harmonisation of private law in Europe - some misunderstandings, Mark van Hoecke; mistaken identities - the integrative force of private law, Burkhard Schafer and Zenon Bankowski; English private law in the context of the codes, Geoffrey Samuel; the debate on a European civil code - for an "open texture", Anthony Chamboredon; European private law - a new software package ofr an outdated operating system?, Alain Wijffels; studying judical decisions in the common law and the civil law - a good way of discovering some of the most interesting similarities and differences that exist between these legal familes, Basil Markesinis; monism and dualism within the European jurisdictions, Francois Rigaux; the adjudication of law and the doctrine of private law, Fritz Jost; unfair terms in consumer contracts - an Anglo-Italian comparison, Paolisa Nebbia; current problems of legal dogmatics in European regulation - the principle of equality and the policies of affirmative action, Jose Garcia Anon; the Kalanke case and the Marschall case in the Court of Justice of the European Communities - the women's quota and Alexy's principles theory, Maria Elosegui; the right to personal identity in Italian private law - constitutional interpretation and judge-made rights, Giorgio Pino; the power of aspiration - the impact of European law on a non-Eu country, Ireneusz C. Kaminski.