An Optional Instrument and Social Dumping

European Review of Contract Law

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 199-212

  Rutgers, Jacobien W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 84870230321     PISSN: 16149920     EISSN: 16149939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ERCL.2006.015     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. E. Hondius, ‘The Protection of the Weak Party in a Harmonised European Contract Law: a Synthesis’ (2004) 27 Journal of Consumer Policy 245;
2. B. Lurger, ‘The “Social” Side of Contract law and the New Principle of Regard and Fairness’, in A. Hartkamp et al (eds) Towards a European Civil Code (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2004) 273, 281;
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4. U. Mattei, ‘Hard Minimal Code Now- A Critique of “Softness”’, in S. Grundmann / J. Stuyck (eds), An Academic Green Paper on European Contract Law (The Hague, London, New York: Kluwer Law International, 2002) 228;
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10. Green Paper on the conversion of the Rome Convention of 1980 on the law applicable
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19. S. Weatherill, in this issue; For further references see J.W. Rutgers, ‘The rule of reason and private law or the limits to harmonization’, in A. Schrauwen (ed), Rule of Reason; Rethinking another Classic of EC Legal Doctrine, The Hogendorp Papers (4) (Groningen: Europa Law Publishers, 2004) 143.