An Academic Green Paper on EUropean Contract Law

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Part I: The Green Paper Process and the Need of Academic Input. 1. An Academic Green Paper on European Contract Law -- Scope, Common Ground and Debated Issues Grundmann, Stuyck. 2. The Commission Communication on European Contract Law and its Follow-Up Staudenmayer. Part II. Enhancing Contract Law Harmonisation (Option III) A. The Need of More Thorough Empirical Research. 3. Design for an Empirical Data Investigation into the Impact of Existing Contract Law Harmonisation under the White Paper 1985 Schwartze. B. Some particular Ways of Enhancing Contract Law Harmonisation. 4. Finding the Remaining Traps instead of Unifying Facilitative Law Beale. 5. European Consumer Law -- the Minimal and Maximal Harmonisation Debate and Pro Independent Consumer Law Competence Howells. 6. Increasing Consistency in Existing Harmonisation Tilleman, Du Laing C. Additional Measures Needed for Really Levelling the Playing Field. 7. Continuing Contract Law Harmonisation under the White Paper of 1985 -- partly with Modifications Drexl. Part III. A European Code Replacing National Laws (Option IVa). A. Progressive Codification. 8. Progressive Codification of European Private Law Bianca. B. In Favour of a European Civil or Contract Law Code Replacing National Laws. 9. Paving the Way forward with Principles of European Private Law von Bar. 10. The Case for a European Contract Act Basedow. 11. The Contract Law Codification Process in Europe: Policies, Targets and Time Dimensions Bussani. 12. The Politics of European Contract Law: Who has an Interest in What Kind of Contract Law for Europe? Hesselink. 13. Un Code Europeen des Contrats: pourquoi et comment Gandolfi. 14. Why does Europe need a Code? Lando. 15. Hard Minimal Code Now! -- a Critique of 'Softness' and a Plea for Responsibility in the European Debate over Codification Mattei. 16. A Framework Code Only -- Besides National Laws Schwintowski. C. Against a European Code Replacing National Laws. 17. Forced Harmonisation of Contract Law in Europe -- Not to be Continued Van den Bergh 18. Transaction Costs and Subsidiarity in European Contract Law Collins. 19. Some Critical Comments on Competence and Not Concentrating on First Things First 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. 20. European System of Contract Laws -- a Map for Combining the Advantages of Centralised and Decentralised Rule-making Grundmann, Kerber. B. Some particular Design Proposals. 21. A European Code for Intra-European Border-Crossing Contracts -- a Subsidiary Plea Drobnig. 22. The Design of an Optional Restatement of European Contract Law -- Real Life Instead of Dead Concepts Wilhelmsson. 23. A Detailed European Code with a System of Options de Geest. 24. Toward a Multi-Layered Contract Law for Europe Smits. C. An Optional European Code and the Problem of Knowing about the Best Design. 25. An Optional European Civil Code -- Initiating a Learning Process Kirchner. D. A Curriculum of How to Proceed. 26. Codifying European Contract Law -- Top Down and Bottom Up van Gerven.

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