This paper serves as an editorial to a collection of papers on the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in private law in the European Union. The papers refer to developments in several European jurisdictions, and cover a broad range of topics, from environmental rights to linguistic rights,...

Prospect theory [KT79] and its more recent formalizations [KR06, KR07] prescribe "nonlinear" reference-dependence. The same may be said of other forms of context-dependence such as status quo bias [MO05]. Even in settings where there is a strong case for linear context-dependence such as Gilboa...