The Alchemy of Deriving General Principles of Contract Law from European Legislation: In Search of the Philosopher's Stone

European Review of Contract Law

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 213-226

  Collins, Hugh ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85154059401     PISSN: 16149920     EISSN: 16149939     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/ERCL.2006.016     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Study Group, ‘Social Justice in European Contract Law: A Manifesto’ (2004) 10 European Law Journal 653 (henceforth ‘Manifesto’).
2. C. U. Schmid, ‘The Instrumentalist Conception of the Acquis Communautaire in Consumer Law and its Implications on a European Contract Law Code’ (2005) 1 European Review of Contract Law 211;
3. B. Lurger, ‘The Future of European Contract Law between Freedom of Contract, Social Justice, and Market Rationality’ (2005) 1 European Review of Contract Law 442, 452–453.
4. P. Rott, ‘Consumer Guarantees in the Future Consumer Credit Directive: Mandatory Ban on Consumer Protection?’ (2005) 13 European Review of Private Law 383.
5. For a comparative survey: R. Sefton-Green (ed), Mistake, Fraud and Duties to Inform in European Contract Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
6. J. Black, ‘Decentring regulation: Understanding the Role of Regulation and Self-regulation in a Post-regulating World’ (2001) 54 Current Legal Problems 103, 128–144;
7. J. Black, ‘Law and Regulation: The Case of Finance’, in C. Parker / C. Scott / N. Lacey / J. Braithwaite (eds), Regulating Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) 33–34.
8. M. Weber, Economy and Society, G. Roth / C. Wittich (eds), (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968) Volume II, 880–895.
9. see: H. Willke, ‘Three Types of Legal Structure: The Conditional, the Purposive and the Relational Program’, in G. Teubner (ed), Dilemmas of Law in the Welfare State (New York/Berlin: de Gruyter, 1988) 280.
10. G. Gurvitch, L’idee du Droit Social (Paris: Sirey, 1932); and for a modern statement, F. Ewald, ‘A Concept of Social Law’, in Teubner, n 9 above, 40.
11. Eg S. Breyer, Regulation and its Reform (Cambridge Ma: Harvard University Press, 1982).
12. Dir 2005/29; H. Collins, ‘The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive’ (2005) 1 European Review of Contract Law 417.
13. M.C. Bianca, ‘Article 3: Rights of the Consumer’, in M. C. Bianca / S. Grundmann (eds), EU Sales Directive: Commentary (Antwerp/Oxford: Intersentia, 2002) 175.
14. S. Grundmann, ‘European Contract Law(s) of What Colour?’ (2005) 1 European Review of Contract Law 184, 201–203;
15. R. Schulze, ‘European Private Law and Existing EC Law’ (2005) 13 European Review of Private Law 3, 12.
16. K. Riesenhuber, ‘System and Principles of EC Contract Law’ (2005) 1 European Review of Contract Law 297, 319.
17. H. Schepel, ‘The Enforcement of EC law in Contractual Relations: Case Studies in How Not to “Constitutionalize” Private Law’ (2004) 12 European Review of Private Law 661;
18. G. Monti, ‘Anti-competitive Agreements: The Innocent Party’s Right to Damages’ (2002) 27 European Law Review 282.
19. These suggestions are explained in greater depth in H. Collins, Regulating Contracts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999) Part 2 ‘The New Regulation’.
20. S. Weatherill, ‘Reflections on the EC’s Competence to Develop a “European Contract Law”’ (2005) 13 European Review of Private Law 405.