Leone Niglia is Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies and Reader, School of Law, University of Exeter.

...essential reading for those interested in the subject of the Europeanisation of private law.

• Prologue – Of Pluralism and European Private Law Leone Niglia PART ONE THE NEW PARADIGM: PLURALISM BETWEEN PRIVATE LAW AND CONSTITUTIONALISMOverview of Part One – The New Paradigm: Pluralism Between Private Law and Constitutionalism Leone Niglia 1 The Double Life of Pluralism in Europe Leone Niglia 2 Monistic Ideology versus Pluralistic Reality – Towards a Normative Design for European Private Law Hans-W Micklitz 3 The Poverty of Global Constitutionalism Massimo La Torre PART TWO COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVESOverview of Part Two – Comparative and Historical Perspectives Leone Niglia 4 Pluralism and Private Law in the Union Norbert Reich 5 European Contract Law Through and Beyond Pluralism – the Case of an Optional Instrument Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson 6 Legal Pluralism in Europe: National Laws, European Legislation, and Non-legislative Codifications Nils Jansen PART THREE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVESOverview of Part Three – Theoretical Perspectives Leone Niglia 7 Why We Have No Theory of European Private Law Pluralism Ralf Michaels 8 A Radical View of Legal Pluralism Jan Smits 9 A Radical View of Pluralism? Comments on Jan Smits Brigitta Lurger 10 The Economics of Harmonising Private Law Through Optional Rules Fernando Gomez and Juan Jose Ganuza 11 How Many Systems of Private Law are there in Europe? Martijn W Hesselink 12 Pluralism in a New Key – Between Plurality and NormativityLeone Niglia Epilogue – Of European Private Law and Pluralism Leone Niglia

Leone Niglia is Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies and Reader, School of Law, University of Exeter.

...essential reading for those interested in the subject of the Europeanisation of private law.

• Prologue – Of Pluralism and European Private Law Leone Niglia PART ONE THE NEW PARADIGM: PLURALISM BETWEEN PRIVATE LAW AND CONSTITUTIONALISMOverview of Part One – The New Paradigm: Pluralism Between Private Law and Constitutionalism Leone Niglia 1 The Double Life of Pluralism in Europe Leone Niglia 2 Monistic Ideology versus Pluralistic Reality – Towards a Normative Design for European Private Law Hans-W Micklitz 3 The Poverty of Global Constitutionalism Massimo La Torre PART TWO COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVESOverview of Part Two – Comparative and Historical Perspectives Leone Niglia 4 Pluralism and Private Law in the Union Norbert Reich 5 European Contract Law Through and Beyond Pluralism – the Case of an Optional Instrument Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson 6 Legal Pluralism in Europe: National Laws, European Legislation, and Non-legislative Codifications Nils Jansen PART THREE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVESOverview of Part Three – Theoretical Perspectives Leone Niglia 7 Why We Have No Theory of European Private Law Pluralism Ralf Michaels 8 A Radical View of Legal Pluralism Jan Smits 9 A Radical View of Pluralism? Comments on Jan Smits Brigitta Lurger 10 The Economics of Harmonising Private Law Through Optional Rules Fernando Gomez and Juan Jose Ganuza 11 How Many Systems of Private Law are there in Europe? Martijn W Hesselink 12 Pluralism in a New Key – Between Plurality and NormativityLeone Niglia Epilogue – Of European Private Law and Pluralism Leone Niglia

Leone Niglia is Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies and Reader, School of Law, University of Exeter.

...essential reading for those interested in the subject of the Europeanisation of private law.

• Prologue – Of Pluralism and European Private Law Leone Niglia PART ONE THE NEW PARADIGM: PLURALISM BETWEEN PRIVATE LAW AND CONSTITUTIONALISMOverview of Part One – The New Paradigm: Pluralism Between Private Law and Constitutionalism Leone Niglia 1 The Double Life of Pluralism in Europe Leone Niglia 2 Monistic Ideology versus Pluralistic Reality – Towards a Normative Design for European Private Law Hans-W Micklitz 3 The Poverty of Global Constitutionalism Massimo La Torre PART TWO COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVESOverview of Part Two – Comparative and Historical Perspectives Leone Niglia 4 Pluralism and Private Law in the Union Norbert Reich 5 European Contract Law Through and Beyond Pluralism – the Case of an Optional Instrument Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson 6 Legal Pluralism in Europe: National Laws, European Legislation, and Non-legislative Codifications Nils Jansen PART THREE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVESOverview of Part Three – Theoretical Perspectives Leone Niglia 7 Why We Have No Theory of European Private Law Pluralism Ralf Michaels 8 A Radical View of Legal Pluralism Jan Smits 9 A Radical View of Pluralism? Comments on Jan Smits Brigitta Lurger 10 The Economics of Harmonising Private Law Through Optional Rules Fernando Gomez and Juan Jose Ganuza 11 How Many Systems of Private Law are there in Europe? Martijn W Hesselink 12 Pluralism in a New Key – Between Plurality and NormativityLeone Niglia Epilogue – Of European Private Law and Pluralism Leone Niglia