Civil Courts and the European Polity

The chapters collected in this book explore the place and role of judge-made private law in an emerging European polity. Examining case-law from the perspective of different theories and viewpoints, scholars and judges assess and reflect on the role of judges in civil cases for polity-building in Europe. The chapters thus present a kaleidoscopic view on the dynamics of private law adjudication against a European backdrop. The book aims to add a private legal perspective to existing discourses in European constitutional law on Europe''s political constellation. It aspires to enrich two debates - the first on the influence of fundamental rights in private legal relations, and the second on the constitutional dimension of European private law. The contributions are placed within a framework of five sub-categories or dimensions of judge-made European private law: politics of European private law adjudication, rights, remedies, representation and reflections of judges on specific cases.>

Auteur
Chantal Mak is Professor of Fundamental Rights and Private Law at the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.Betül Kas is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands.