The title The Visible Hand of European Regulatory Private Law should make clear what I identify to be the major gap not only in political discourse but also in legal doctrine and in legal theory concerning European private law and where I hope to bring additional expertise which is so far...

This paper traces the origins of the recently adopted general services directives of the European Union, and addresses the question why such an important piece of internal market legislation was adopted so recently, and anyway well after the 1992 deadline for the completion of the internal...

Since 1998, the World Health Organisation has recognised obesity as a problem of epidemic proportions. As none of the EU Member States is spared, the European Commission has recently published a Green Paper aimed at gathering evidence on how it could develop anobesity prevention strategy at...

Unfair contract terms legislation is more than forty years old. Member States started regulating unfair contract terms from the 1970s onwards with a growing intensity. In 1993 the European Community adopted, after a lengthy discussion, Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair contract terms in consumer...

Il titolo "La mano visibile del diritto privato europeo in materia normativa" è un'espressione che dovrebbe chiarire quella che io identifico come la più grande lacuna esistente non soltanto nel discorso politico ma anche nella dottrina e nella teoria del diritto privato europeo, alla quale mi...

I am interested in the relationship between constitutional and private law. The two Grand Projects, the European Constitution and the European Civil Code, serve as a catalyst to develop my argument. I will first look at the link between the two Grand Projects by placing emphasis on parameters...

Since its creation, European Union (hereinafter: ‘the EU’) has experienced various enlargements. In 1973, Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom joined the EU. Greece became a Member in 1981 and was followed by Spain and Portugal in 1986. Austria, Finland and Sweden accessed the EU in 1995....

The present efforts in Europe to achieve more uniformity in private law and the debates on a European civil code need to be understood in a wider context. Europe is plagued by concerns over its problem-solving potential and its acceptance amongst citizens. The response is ambitious projects....

In the European Union the relationship between anti-trust law and the law against unfair practices in competition raises not only issues of how to properly delimit the scope of application of the rules of both bodies of law, but also of how to divide the exercise of legislative authority over...

This paper tries to present a synthetic analysis of new social regulatory techniques in the field of Labour Law. They appeared by the economic regional integration or/and to answer to the choc created by globalisation. They can be seen as hard law as well as soft law, national, regional,...