The objective of this consumer law casebook, like others in the Ius Commune series, is to help uncover common roots - notwithstanding differences in approach - of the European legal systems, with a view to strengthening the common legal heritage of Europe. The casebook covers the big legal families in the EU and contains judgments from the supreme courts and other courts of the Member States. In view of the importance of EC legislation (e.g. harmonization directives and regulations) in this field, the casebook contains much material derived from Community law, such as extracts from directives...

Private Law in the External Relations of the EU is an innovative study of the interactions between EU external relations law and private law, two unrelated fields of law, inverted if private law is understood as regulatory private law - the space where regulatory law intersects with private economic activity. Here the link between the Internal Market and the global market - and thereby international law - is much more prominent. In this book, key questions about the relationship between EU external relations law and private law are answered, including: in what ways might European private law...

Rethinking Legal Scholarship bridges the gap between American and European legal scholarship by looking at underlying methodological challenges.

Compares national concepts of social justice with the developing European access justice.

Rethinking Legal Scholarship bridges the gap between American and European legal scholarship by looking at underlying methodological challenges.