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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, [...]
How the ‘Legal Capacity’ of Persons with Disabilities May Serve as a Tool for Social Justice in Europe?
Self-determination, employment, housing, and access to credit are essential aspects of social justice insofar as they are necessary to satisfy citizens’ fundamental needs and ensure a range of basic entitlements (Caruso 2013). All these [...]
The Making of the Debtor Society: From Affluence to Normalised Indebtedness
In this contribution, I introduce the concept of a “debtor society” and explore how it reflects broader socio-economic transformations shaped by neoliberal policies and financialisation. Building on Pistor’s (2019) argument that capital is coded [...]
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