‘Consumer Law, Social and Ecological Justice: Charting the Crossroads’

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 potential to shape the future of the European Union, the document aimed to achieve two main objectives: 1. The construction of a European contract law, since this task could not be conceived merely as a technical issue; instead, according to the authors, a political framework should be established to discuss and identify a set of shared fundamental values concerning social and economic relations between citizens; 2. The definition of new methods for constructing these shared fundamental values … (more)

[Alessandra Quarta, Transformative Private Law Blog, 23 October 2024]

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