Title:A Self-Sufficient European Private Law – A Viable Concept?
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; SVETIEV, YaneDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This working paper collects the contributions to the first external workshop within the ERPL project that took place on 4 and 5 May 2012 at the EUI. The workshop aimed to clarify the key parameters to be used for analysing ...
Title:Do Consumers and Businesses Need a New Architecture of Consumer Law? A thought-provoking impulse
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper is a translation of the Gutachten prepared for the 69. Deutschen Juristentag to be held in September 2012. It pleads for a separate consumer law code outside private law codifications. The benchmarks are: rethinking ...
Title:Modernising Consumer Law: The experience of the Western Balkan
Author(s):KARANIKIC, Marija; MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; REICH, NorbertDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This study reports on the state of consumer law and practice in 6 Western Balkan countries (Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia). It pays particular attention to how these countries have adapted ...
Title:From the Nation State to the Market: The evolution of EU private law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; PATTERSON, DennisDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The State exists to deliver security and welfare to citizens. One of the principal functions of the State is to enhance welfare through the production of legal regimes. Law contributes to welfare in many ways, one of which ...
Title:The Commission Proposal for a "Regulation on a Common European Sales Law (CESL)": Too broad or not broad enough?
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; REICH, NorbertDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The paper which was commissioned by the Austrian Ministry of Consumer Affairs but written under the exclusive responsibility of the authors consists of three parts: The first part written jointly by the authors gives an ...
Title:Judge-Made Integration?
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; SCHEBESTA, HannaDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to book
Title:The European Court of Justice and the Autonomy of the Member States
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory Programme]Abstract:There is an impressive body of legal literature on the relationship between the European Court of Justice and its various “interlocutors” (EU institutions, national jurisdictions, EU interest groups, multinationals…) and ...
Title:E-Commerce in China and Germany: A Sino-German comparative analysis
Author(s):Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH; Department of Market Regulation, State Administration for Industry and Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (SAIC); China Society of Administration for Industry & Commerce (CSAIC); METZ, Rainer; MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; SPINDLER, Gerald; HONGFENG, Yang; LEI, Wang; DONGPING, Wu; PURNHAGEN, Kai PeterDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The ways to approach the regulation of e-commerce markets are in the focus of discussion both in China and Germany. While a general need for regulation is undisputed in both countries, the scope, means and aims regulation ...
Title:Methodology in the New Legal World
Author(s):VAN GESTEL, Rob; MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis MiguelDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Law is a discipline in transition moving, among others, from a predominantly monodisciplinary dogmatic tradition towards more and more attention for multidisciplinary and empirical legal research, from a national to a more ...
Title:Revitalizing Doctrinal Legal Research in Europe: What About Methodology?
Author(s):VAN GESTEL, Rob; MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Both in the U.S. and in Europe there is a debate on methodology in legal research. Doctrinalists and multidisciplinarians appear to be in different camps fighting over the ‘true nature’ of legal scholarship. We wonder where ...
Title:Social Justice and Access Justice in Private Law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:During the C20th, the Member States of the European Union developed their own models of social justice in private law. Each model is inherently linked to national culture and tradition. However, all models have a common ...
Title:The Many Concepts of Social Justice in European Private Law
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This insightful book, with contributions from leading international scholars, examines the European model of social justice in private law that has developed over the 20th century. The first set of articles is devoted to ...
Title:Consumer Bankruptcy in Europe Different Paths for Debtors and Creditors
Author(s):ANDERSON, Robert; DUBOIS, Hans; KOARK, Anne; LECHNER, Götz; RAMSAY, Iain; ROETHE, ThomasDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:The economic crisis has fuelled the debate on regulated state insolvencies. And while debt relief is
being considered for nations, in some European countries consumers live their whole lives in debt as
there is no consumer ...
Title:The ECJ between the Individual Citizen and the Member States: A plea for a judge-made European law on remedies
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-WolfgangDate:2011Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:Time and again the ECJ comes under fire, from the Member States who fear the loss of sovereignty, as well as from trade unions and public interest groups who fear the downgrading of ‘The Social’. The overall message then ...
Title:The Foundations of European Private Law
Author(s):BROWNSWORD, Roger; MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; NIGLIA, Leone; WEATHERILL, StephenDate:2011Type of Publication:BookAbstract:There remains an urgent need for a deeper discussion of the theoretical, political and federal dimensions of the European codification project. While much valuable work has already been undertaken, the chapters in this ...