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Qu'ils Mangent Des Contrats: Rethinking Justice In Eu Contract Law, Daniela Caruso
Qu'ils Mangent Des Contrats: Rethinking Justice In Eu Contract Law, Daniela Caruso
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The concern for justice in the context of EU contract law was central to a scholarly initiative that led, in 2004, to the publication of a Social Justice Manifesto. The Manifesto had the explicit goal of steering the Commission’s harmonization agenda away from purely neoliberal goals and towards a socially conscious law of private exchange. Contract law would be designed at the EU level so as to become (or remain, depending on the baseline of each member state) palatable to weaker parties. Today, in the many parts of Europe devastated by rising poverty, dire unemployment rates, and collapsing social safety …
The Transformation Of Europe In Us Legal Academia And Its Legacy In The Field Of Private Law, Daniela Caruso
The Transformation Of Europe In Us Legal Academia And Its Legacy In The Field Of Private Law, Daniela Caruso
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The rise of EU law in US legal scholarship – from international lawyers' pet project to new fuel for comparative constitutional scholarship, and then on to self-contained subject matter with an independent raison d'être – is closely tied to the professional itinerary of Joseph Weiler. Under the auspices of Eric Stein and Peter Hay, EEC law developed as a discipline at the University of Michigan, and the collaboration between US legal academia and the European University Institute (EUI) grew in quality and intensity. The year 1984 saw the birth of a massive research project sponsored by the EUI and the …