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Re-Coding Capital: Can a New EU Code of Private Law make Global Finance more Socially Just?
A few years ago, Katharina Pistor published a book that presented a powerful illustration of the profound political, economic and social consequences that have resulted from a depoliticised and market-centric approach to private law. [...]
Insuring global social justice: After success with legal claims, transnational remedial institutions are needed in a global value chain economy
1. Social Justice and Globalization, c. 1990—2020 As a child in the 1980s, the clothes I wore were manufactured in the country where I lived, Finland. As an adult in the 2020s, when I [...]
Reconfiguring contract law through sustainability
Though not the centrepiece, sustainability was already on the radar of the Manifesto for Social Justice in European Contract Law in 2004: ‘It is important to align the general principles of social justice that [...]
Consumer Law, Social and Ecological Justice: Charting the Crossroads
Introduction In 2004, a group of scholars signed a collective work with the evocative title “Social Justice in European Contract Law: A Manifesto”. Starting from the idea that private contract law had the [...]
The other ‘class’ question
Introduction The original Manifesto refers to ‘procedures’ and ‘enforcement’ only once each. Yet, civil procedure is essential to any analysis of private law. In Europe, civil procedure and enforcement laws are advancing at a [...]
The multifaceted aspects of the “new consent”
Today, consent seems an important occurrence of our daily life. Traditionally, consent was the staple of classical contract law but consent is nowadays relevant not only for making contracts, but also in sexual relationships, [...]
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