Preface

Detailed Table of Contents

Abbreviations

Part I The Green Paper Process and the Need for Academic Input

An Academic Green Paper on European Contract Law -- Scope, Common Ground and Debated Issues

Stefan Grundmann

Jules Stuyck

The Commission Communication on European Contract Law and its Follow-Up

Dirk Staudenmayer

Part II Enhancing Contract Law Harmonisation (Option III)

A. The Need for More Thorough Empirical Research

Design for an Empirical Data Investigation into the Impact of Existing Contract Law Harmonisation under the White Paper of 1985

Andreas Schwartze

B. Some Particular Ways of Enhancing Contract Law Harmonisation

Finding the Remaining Traps instead of Unifying Contract Law

Hugh Beale

European Consumer Law -- the Minimal and Maximal Harmonisation Debate and Pro Independent Consumer Law Competence

Geraint Howells

Directives on Consumer Protection as a Suitable Means of Obtaining a (More) Unified European Contract Law?

Bernard Tilleman

Bart Du Laing

C. Additional Measures Needed for Really Levelling the Playing Field

Continuing Contract Law Harmonisation under the White Paper of 1985? -- Between Minimum Harmonisation, Mutual Recognition, Conflict of Laws, and Uniform Law

Josef Drexl

Part III A European Code Replacing National Laws (Option IVA)

A. Progressive Codification

Progressive Codification of European Private Law

C. Massimo Bianca

B. In Favour of a European Civil or Contract Law Code Replacing National Laws

Paving the Way forward with Principles of European Private Law

Christian von Bar

The Case for a European Contract Act

Jurgen Basedow

The Contract Law Codification Process in Europe: Policies, Targets and Time Dimensions

Mauro Bussani

The Politics of European Contract Law: Who has an Interest in what kind of Contract Law for Europe?

Martijn W. Hesselink

Un Code Europeen des Contrats: pourquoi et comment

Giuseppe Gandolfi

Why does Europe need a Civil Code?

Ole Lando

Hard Minimal Code Now! -- a Critique of `Softness' and a Plea for Responsibility in the European Debate over Codification

Ugo Mattei

The European Civil Code: a Framework Code only

Hans-Peter Schwintowski

C. Against a European Code Replacing National Laws

Forced Harmonisation of Contract Law in Europe: Not to be Continued

Roger Van den Bergh

Transaction Costs and Subsidiarity in European Contract Law

Hugh Collins

Critical Comments on the Commission Communication 'On European Contract Law'

Norbert Reich

Part IV An Optional European Code Supplementing, Not Substituting National Laws (Option IVB)

A. A Map of Potential Designs and Basic Elements of Evaluation

European System of Contract Laws -- a Map for Combining the Advantages of Centralised and Decentralised Rule-making

Stefan Grundmann

Wolfgang Kerber

B. Some Particular Design Proposals

A Subsidiary Plea: A European Contract Law for Intra-European Border-Crossing Contracts

U. Drobnig

The Design of an Optional (Re)statement of European Contract Law -- Real Life Instead of Dead Concepts

Thomas Wilhelmsson

Information Problems Caused by Regulatory Competition, and Their Solution: International Standard Codes

Gerrit de Geest

Toward a Multi-Layered Contract Law for Europe

Jan Smits

C. An Optional European Code and the Problem of Knowing about the Best Design

An Optional European Civil Code (OECC): Initiating a Learning Process

Christian Kirchner

D. A Curriculum of How to Proceed

Codifying European Private Law: Top Down and Bottom Up

Walter van Gerven