Varieties of European Economic Law and Regulation

About the Authors.- Table of Contents.- Foreword; Kai Purnhagen and Peter Rott.- Part I Foundations of (Private) Law.- 1 Three Views on Negotiation - An Essay Between Disciplines; Stefan Grundmann.- 2 Post-private law?; Martijn Hesselink.- 3 Non-State Law in the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Contracts-An Unconvincing Solution for an Unimportant Problem; Ralf Michaels.- 4 Optional Regulation of Standard Contract Terms; Florian Moslein.- 5 Law or Economics---Some Thoughts on Transnational Private Law; Leone Niglia.- 6 A "Competitive Contract Law"?; Karl Riesenhuber.- 7 The Horizontal Effect of Fundamental Rights in Private Law - On Actors, Vectors and Factors of Influence; Marek Safjan.- 8 European Regulatory Private Law: From Conflicts to Platforms; Yane Svetiev.- 9 On Law and Sorrow; Joseph HH Weiler.- 10 Free Movement of Legal Sources: The Use of Foreign Sources in Private Law in Europe; Thomas Wilhelmsson.- Part 2 EU Internal Market Regulation.- 11 New Economic Governance in the European Union: Another Constitutional Battleground?; Fabian Amtenbrink.- 12 Regulatory Coherence-A European Challenge; Roger Brownsword.- 13 Does private regulation foster European legal integration; Fabrizio Cafaggi.- 14 'Unity in Diversity'?! - A Conflicts-Law Re-Construction of Controversial Current Developments; Carola Glinski and Christian Joerges.- 15 The Virtue of Cassis de Dijon 25 years later - It Is Not Dead, It Just Smells Funny; Kai Purnhagen.- 16 Who Does What? On the Distribution of Competences among the European Union and the Member States; Jan Smits.- 17 Do we need 'consumer protection' for small businesses at the EU level?; Jules Stuyck.- 18 European social constitution: between solidarity and access justice; Kaarlo Tuori.- 19 Why there is no 'principle of mutual recognition' in EU law (and why that matters to consumer lawyers); Steven Weatherill.- 20 Internal market law and national language policies; Bruno de Witte.- Part 3 Competition and Intellectual Property Law.- 21 Competition law and consumer protection: On the necessity of a common consumer model; Thomas Ackermann.- 22 Cross-Border Collective Management of Copyright and the EU Services Directive; Josef Drexl.- 23 Patenting Coffee - IP protection and its impact on innovation in the coffee-capsule market; Reto Hilty and Peter Slowinski.- 24 Restitution of 'degenerate' art; Jurgen Sacker.- Part 4 Product Safety Law.- 25 Product Safety - A Model for EU Legislation and Reform; Geraint Howells.- 26 To the question of what should be and what is - Plans and Actuals; Roethe, Thomas.- 27 Standardisation prior to or instead of Information - a fundamental criticism of the (European) information model for financial and insurance products; Hans-Peter Schwintowski.- Part 5 Consumer Contract Law.- 28 Law and Choice in Consumer Contracts: Views from Law and Economics; Fernando Gomez and Juan Jose Ganuza.- 29 Against a New Architecture of Consumer Law - A Traditional View; Ewoud Hondius.- 30 The regulation of digital content B2C contracts in CESL; Marco Loos.- 31 CREDIT SCORING: Will Our Digital Identity Replace The Real Person?; Rainer Metz.- 32 Reflections on Hans Micklitz' plea for a 'Movable System' (of Consumer Law) - anything to learn from the experiences of Indian Consumer Law?; Norbert Reich.- 33 The Low-Income Consumer in European Private Law; Peter Rott.- 34 From the Kennedy message to full harmonising consumer law directives: a retrospect; Klaus Tonner.- 35 Contra Emptor Interpretation-Protecting Service Providers from EU law; Christopher Willet.- Part 6 Enforcement of Law.- 36 Towards a rapid claims settlement mechanism for disasters?; Michael Faure and Franziska Weber.- 37 Enforcement by the New European Supervisory Agencies: Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?; Rob van Gestel and Thomas van Golen.- 38 Access to Justice and Public Interest Litigation: Getting nowhere quickly?; Laurence Gormley.- 39 Consumer Redress: Ideology and Empiricism; Christopher Hodges.- 40 On Beauty and Being Fair - The interaction of national and supranational judiciaries in the development of a European law on remedies; Chantal Mak.- 41 The Right to Refer to the European Court of Justice - Should it be Limited to the Courts of Last Instance?; Hannes Rosler.- 42 Procedural Theory in EU Law; Hanna Schebesta.- 43 Social Networks and Liability - the difficult triangle between network operators, users and third parties in German media law; Gerald Spindler.