National Resistance against the Europeanisation of Private Law
This is a multidisciplinary project, selected on the basis of ‘double blind’ peer review. Led by two of the most renowned Dutch scholars in the field. The project will generate policy recommendations for European and national policy-makers in regard of:
(a) factors affecting European harmonisation of contract and consumer law and
(b) the effects of harmonisation on the costs of cross-border trade and the incidence of trading.
Project leaders
- Prof. Jan Smits
Maastricht University - Prof. Martijn Hesselink
University of Amsterdam
Researchers
- Gary Low - Maastricht University
- Guido Comparato - University of Amsterdam
Total budget: €290,000
HiiL financial support: €260,000
Matching: €30,000
Duration: 2008 – 2011
Scientific publications
- Smits, J. (2012) "Introduction to special issue: Harmonisation of contract law: an economic and behavioural perspective" EJLE (forthcoming)
- Gomez, F & Ganuza, JJ (2012) "How to build European private law: an economic analysis of the lawmaking and harmonization dimensions in European private law" EJLE (forthcoming)
- O'Hara O'Connor E. (2012) "The limits of contract law harmonization" EJLE (forthcoming)
- Low, G. "Will firms consider a European optional instrument in contract law?" EJLE (forthcoming)
- Wagner, H. (2012) "Is harmonization of legal rules an appropriate target? Lessons from the global financial crisis" EJLE (forthcoming)
- Low, G. (2010) "The (Ir)Relevance of Harmonization and Legal Diversity to European Contract Law: A Perspective from Psychology". European Review of Private Law, Vol. 2, 2010, pp. 285 - 305
- Low, G. (2010) “ ‘Bounded’ Regulatory Competition In The Market For European Contract Laws”, paper presented on the Roundtable Conference on Harmonisation and Diversity in European Contract Law - Perspectives from Economics and Psychology, 5 March 2010, Tilburg
- Smits, J.M. (2009) “Full Harmonization of Consumer Law? A Critique of the Draft Directive on Consumer Rights”. TICOM Working Paper on Comparative and Transnational Law 2009/2
- Low, G. (2009) "How and Why We Are (Not) Bothered By the Costs of Legal Diversity - A Behavioural Approach to the Harmonization of European Contract Law". Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law Working Paper No. 2009/8
Contact information
Katarzyna Kryczka | Research and Programme Officer
+31 70 349 4406 | k.kryczka@hiil.org