Social Justice in European Contract Law: a Manifesto Study Group on Social Justice in European Private Law* The Study Group on Social Justice in European Private Law are: Gert Brüggemeier (Bremen), Mauro Bussani (Trieste), Hugh Collins (London), Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi (Bremen), Giovanni Comandé (Pisa), Muriel Fabre-Magnan (Nantes), Stefan Grundmann (Berlin), Martijn Hesselink (Amsterdam) (Chairman), Christian Joerges (Florence), Brigitta Lurger (Graz), Ugo Mattei (Torino), Marisa Meli (Catania), Jacobien Rutgers (Amsterdam), Christoph Schmidt (Florence), Jane Smith (Bremen), Ruth Sefton-Green (Paris), Horatia Muir Watt (Paris), Thomas Wilhelmsson (Helsinki). I Contract Law and the Future of Europe The private law of contract is not the most obvious place to look for fundamental controversies about the future of the European Union. It does not directly concern such high-profile issues as the creation of a constitution or federal control over economic and fiscal policy. The absence of significant political and media interest in the fate of the private law of contract should not, however, lead us to underestimate its potential importance to the future of the European Union. In many respects what happens to the law of contract will be a defining moment in the history of Europe. Agreement on common rules among the Nation States will symbolise more clearly than any Treaty or Constitution the emergence of a post-national form of governance. More concretely, the content of those common rules will represent vital decisions about the values on which the market order in Europe will be founded. Why is the private law of contract so significant in these respects? And why has its significance escaped much attention? The Study Group on Social Justice in European Private Law are: Gert Brüggemeier (Bremen), Mauro Bussani (Trieste), Hugh Collins (London), Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi (Bremen), Giovanni Comandé (Pisa), Muriel Fabre-Magnan (Nantes), Stefan Grundmann (Berlin), Martijn Hesselink (Amsterdam) (Chairman), Christian Joerges (Florence), Brigitta Lurger (Graz), Ugo Mattei (Torino), MarisaMeli (Catania), Jacobien Rutgers (Amsterdam), Christoph Schmidt (Florence), Jane Smith (Bremen), Ruth Sefton-Green (Paris), Horatia Muir Watt (Paris), Thomas Wilhelmsson (Helsinki). European Law Journal, Vol. 10, No. 6, November 2004, pp. 653–674. © Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2004, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK and 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA ID: 36990 Author(s): iff Publication date: 01/03/06     Manifesto: Social Justice in European Contract Law (113468 Bytes)

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