Editorial introduction / Roger Brownsword -- 'Restatements' in Europe and the US : some comparative lessons / Hans Schulte-Nölke -- Dogmatising non-legislative codifications : non-legislative reference texts in European legal discourse / Nils Jansen -- If you don't like our principles we have others : on core values and underlying principles in European private law : a critical discussion of the new 'principles' section in the Draft Common Frame of Reference / Martijn Hesselink -- The need for codified guiding principles and model rules in European contract law / Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson -- Old and new insights for the protection of consumers in European private law in the wake of the global economic crisis / Brigitta Lurger -- The economics of private law harmonised law-making : mechanisms, modes and standards / Fernando Gomez and Juan-José Ganuza -- Of islands and the ocean : the two rationalities of European private law / Ralf Michaels -- The theoretical foundations of European private law : a time to stand and stare / Roger Brownsword -- The political foundations of European private law : editorial introduction / Leone Niglia -- A transnational genealogy of proportionality in private law / Duncan Kennedy -- Balancing in private law and the imperatives of the public interest : national experiences and (missed?) european opportunities / Norbert Reich -- New paths of private law / Guido Alpa -- Political foundations of European private law : rethinking the East-West division lines / Marek Safjan and Aneta Wiewiórowska-Domagalska -- The impact of the harmonisation of private law on the reform of civil law in the new member states / Paul Varul -- European private law : political foundations and current challenges / Reiner Schulze -- Of jurisdictional balancing in European private law / Leone Niglia -- The multi-level structure of private law : editorial introduction / Stephen Weatherill -- Plurality of sources in European private law, or : how to live with legal diversity? / Jan M Smits -- Private law in a federal perspective / Walter van Gerven -- European private law : unification, harmonisation or coordination? / Kåre Lilleholt -- Top-down or bottom-up? a look at the unification of private law in federal systems / Mathias Reimann and Daniel Halberstam -- The foundations of private law in a multi-level structure : balancing, distribution of law-making power and other constitutional issues / Matthias E Storme -- A new role for private international and procedural law in European integration? : a critical comment / Lubos Tichý -- Enforcement and compliance : editorial introduction / Hans-W Micklitz -- A critical note on two EU principles : a proceduralist view on the Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR) / Ianika Tzankova and Martin Gramatikov -- Public and private enforcement : the practical implications for policy architecture / Christopher Hodges -- The hybrid quality of European private law / Hugh Collins -- 'DCFR, please meet national procedure' : enforcing the frame of reference using national procedural law / Johan Lindholm -- Individual private enforcement of consumer rights in civil courts in Europe / Marco Loos -- Enforcement and compliance : an EU law perspective / Jules Stuyck -- From 'Toolbox : to academic standard : the current and future status of the Draft Common Frame of Reference / Ewoud Hondius

1. Civil law -- Europe