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1 Sources & Materials European Private Law 1. Formal sources of European Union law - Treaties ( - Secundary Union law (Official Journal: coordinated law at Eur-Lex: - decisions European Courts via 2. Other sources & materials on Union law - preparatory documents. See i.a. Pre-Lex: - different forms of soft law - extensive legal literature, journals, etc. In part on Union private law (formerly Community private law), i.e. the Acquis communautaire in the field of private law. Incl. literature on specific parts of private law (European consumer lawn,european civil procedure, european company law, european conflicts of law, european labour law,...) and literature on Union private law in general. Some forms of literature relevant for research in european private law: - works on principles of Union law (attention: risk of myopia) - public law literature on the division of competences bewteen Union institutions and member states. - literature on methods of harmonisation - literature on the influence of Union law on national law. Eg. HARTKAMP e.a., De invloed van het Europese recht op het Nederlandse privaatrecht (2 Vol., Kluwer Deventer 2007) Bv. EC Consumer law compendium (uitg. Sellier 2008) ( mpendium.htm) - mixed literature in the perspective ius commune, see infra. 3. International uniform law (substantive international private law)

2 - legislation: eg Vienna Sales law (CISG) - literature on uniform law as - eg Uniform law review - literatuur on the influence of uniform law on national law eg. F. FERRARI e.a., The CISG and its Impact on National Legal Systems, ius commune doctrine essentially comparative literature with a specific perspective going from purely scientific i.e. comparative projects such as the Trento common core project to harmonisation projects. Examples of comparative scholarship Trento-common-core-series (Cambridge University press), see Some classics (handbooks ius commune) R. ZIMMERMANN, The law of obligations. Roman Foundations of the Civilian tradition, Juta Cape Town 1990 H. KÖTZ, Europäische Vertragsrecht Bd. I, Mohr Tübingen 1996 C. von BAR, Gemeineuropäisches Deliktsrecht, 2 delen, Beck München 1996 F. RANIERI, Europäisches Obligationenrecht. Eind Handbuch mit Texten und Materialien, 3 e ed (2046 p.) P. SCHLECHTRIEM, Restitution und Bereicherungsausgleich in Europa, Mohr Siebeck Tübingen 2000 (2 volumes) Literature on harmonisation Eg the different editions of HARTKAMP, HESSELINK e.a. Towards a European Civil Code, 4th edition 2010 Journals devoted to union law and comparative national law ERPL / EuZP / REDP ( ZEuP (

3 ERCL (European Review of Contract Law), since 2005 ( Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law ( GPR (Zeitschrift für Gemeinschaftsprivatrecht European Community Private Law Review/Revue de droit privé communautaire) ( inschaftsprivatrecht.htm) 5. Casebooks comparative and common law See Published i.a. - Contract Law (2002), 2nd Tort law (2000) - Unjustified enrichment (2003) - Consumer Law (2010) 6. Restatements a) Origin format - concept in the US: restatements of the common law (excl. Statute law) of the states by the American Law Institute ( - consists of model rules (blackletter), comments with examples, sources or notes. b) General: restatements - Unidroit Principles for international commercial contracts. Vol , Vol II 2004, Vol III in preparation ( - PECL (Principles of European Contract Law), 3 vol. (I 1995, II 1999, III 2003) (see - PEL-series (publication : covers the fields not covered by the PECL, supplementing PECL; drafted by Study Group on a European Civil Code, first stage. Method: teams, advisory councils, general meeting CoCo (Coordinating Committee).

4 14 volumes planned Er zijn 15 delen gepland. Verschenen zijn o.m. Services, Leases, Personal Security, Sales, enz. - ACQP, Principles of Existing EC Contract Law ( Acquis ), by the Acquis group ( Vol I published in 2007 ( extended in 2009 as volume II ( - Restatement on insurance contract law. See and n_insurance_contract_law.htm. - Principles of European Trust Law by Hayton, Kortmann en Verhagen, Kluwer/Tjeeenk Willink Code Européen des contrats by GANDOLFI e.a., 2nd revised ed. Giuffré Milano c) Draft common frame of reference Political background: project of the Europese Commissie, building upon EP- Resoluties, Communication of the E. Commissie, Action Plan european contract law 2001, Resolution 2003, Communication Parallel to revision of teh Consumer Acquis. Task to draft a CFR entrusted in 2005 to a network of groups; the CoPECL netwerk (see The network has integrated revised versions of the PECL, PEL & ACQP into a single coherent set of rules, the Draft Common Frame of reference. - interim outline edition January 2008, (only Books 1 to 7). - finale outline edition January - Full edition in 7 volumes published November ( _and_model_rules_of_european_private_law.htm) - the Restatement on insurance contract law was not integrated in time. - other groups from the network did other types of work ; eg books by the Association Capitant (Terminologie juridique commune, Principes communs contractuels), the Economic Impact Group, the Social Justice Group (HESSELINK, CFR and Social justice, Sellier 2008),... 1 Mededeling van de Europese Commissie van 11 oktober 2004 ( Europees verbintenissenrecht en de herziening van het acquis: verdere maatregelen, 2004_nl.pdf)

5 - A mass of secundary literature on the project. d) Draft optional instrument for contracts in general and sales Political process in course Commission Expert Group on European contract law: see Green paper on european contrat law 2010:

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