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The Constitutional Competence of the EU to Deliver Social Justice
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Stephen Weatherill
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September 28, 2006
Abstract
The paper seeks to provide the constitutional background to the debate about the place of ‘social justice’ in European contract lawmaking. It examines, first, the constitutional justification for the EC's intervention into contract law; second, the legal criteria governing the content of the EC's rules affecting contract law; and, third, the effect exerted by the EC on residual national competence. Its fundamental aim is to elucidate the dynamic and, in places, ambiguous nature of the relationship between the EU and its Member States, and to show how this impinges on contract law in particular.
Published Online: 2006-09-28
Published in Print: 2006-05-01
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- Introduction
- The Constitutional Competence of the EU to Deliver Social Justice
- Social Justice, Constitutional Principles and Protection of the Weaker Contractual Party
- The Constitutionalization of European Contract Law: Judicial Convergence and Social Justice
- Social Justice and the Market in European Contract Law
- An Optional Instrument and Social Dumping
- The Alchemy of Deriving General Principles of Contract Law from European Legislation: In Search of the Philosopher's Stone
- The Eye of the Storm: on the Case for Harmonising Principles of Damages as a Remedy in Contract Law
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- The Old and the New Limits to Freedom of Contract in Europe
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- European Community Legislation and Actions
- The European Commission's Common Frame of Reference Project: a progress report
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