Part 1 Introduction: questions for a critical contract law - and a contradictory answer - contract as social co-operation, Thomas Wilhelmsson. Part 2 Contract law and European integration: protection of consumers' economic interests by the EC through contract law, Norbert Reich; Scandinavian contract law with the EC - a social dimension in contract law by harmonization or recognition, Palle Bo Madsen. Part 3 Contract law and social sciences: towards risk management in contract law?, Dieter Hart; thinking about the insurance society, Nick Huls; the Vikings and the Romans - contract law and social economy, Udo Reifner; piercing the contractual veil - social responsibility of contractual networks?, Gunther Teubner. Part 4 Towards a new contract theory: towards a rational law of contract, Roger Brownsword; liability between contract and tort, Carlo Castronovo; the transformation thesis and the ascription of contractual responsibility, Hugh Collins; contracts - just social practice, Juja Poyhonen. Part 5 Consumers and contract law: contract law: the challenge for the critical contract lawyer, Geraint Howells; consumer law in the year 1992 in Europe and the Netherlands: law for the consumer or law for the market, Roef Stutterheim; on feasibility of social-oriented concepts in contract law.
