The Politics of the Draft Common Frame of Reference

List of Contributors, Preface, List of Abbreviations,

<b>Part One The Shaping of a European Private
Law
Chapter 1</b> An Optional
Instrument for Consumer Contracts in the EU: Conflict of Laws and Conflict of
Policies <i>Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi</i> <b>Chapter 2 </b>Grand European Code
Napoléon or Concise Uniform Contract Law? Defining the Scope of a Common Frame
of Reference <i>Stefan Grundmann

</i><b>Chapter 3 </b>The DCFR: A
Technical or Political Toolbox?<i> Ruth Sefton-Green
</i><b>Chapter 4</b>
Some Like It Soft: Soft Law and Hard Law in the Shaping of European Contract
Law <i>Alessandro Somma</i> <b>Part Two Freedom of
Contract and Social Justice
Chapter
5 </b>Party Autonomy and Freedom of Contract Today <i>Guido Alpa</i>

<b>Chapter 6 </b>The CFR and Social Justice <i>Martijn Hesselink</i>

<b>Chapter 7</b> The DCFR, Public Policy, Mandatory
Rules, and the Welfare State <i>Jacobien W. Rutgers</i>
<b>Part Three Consumer Protection

Chapter 8 </b>Much Ado
About (Almost) Nothing: The Integration of the So-Called 'Consumer Acquis' in
the Draft Common Frame of Reference <i>Brigitta Lurger</i>

<b>Chapter 9</b>
Unfair Terms and Unfairness Test in Contracts between Businesses and
Consumers <i>Marisa Meli </i><b>Chapter 10</b>
'Technical Harmonization' versus Substantive Differences: Termination and
Withdrawal in the Draft Common Frame of Reference <i>Peter Rott</i>


<b>Part Four Other Specific Issues

Chapter 11 </b>Non-contractual Liability
Arising Out of Damage Caused to Another: The Making of a Hybrid <i>Gert
Brüggemeier </i><b>Chapter 12</b> On the Economics of Good
Faith Acquisition Protection in the DCFR <i>Arthur F. Salomons ,</i>