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Consumer responsibility to remedy structural injustice: European consumer law’s capitalistic strategy
Capitalist global processes of production and consumption are unjust. Social movements have been claiming this for decades. Production for private consumption requires an extensive use of natural and finite resources, which we are depleting. [...]
Doing Justice to Justice in EU Data Law
Data-driven technology has become a mainstay in our societies. Feeding AI systems and the IoT, large-scale datasets have the potential to radically reshape our understanding of things and basic social practices. It should thus [...]
Social injustices between inclusive and transformative private law
Two decades on, much of the scenario against which the Manifesto was written has changed. The substantive problems it highlighted, however, have not diminished - if anything, they have intensified. The tension between socially [...]
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 [...]
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