The Common Core of European Private Law

For the transnational lawyer the present European situation is equivalent to that of a traveller compelled to cross legal Europe using a number of different local maps. To assist lawyers in the journey beyond their own locality The Common Core of European Private Law Project was launched in 1993 at the University of Trento under the auspices of the late Professor Rudolf B. Schlesinger. The aim of this collective scholarly enterprise is to unearth what is already common to the legal systems of European Union member states. Case studies widely circulated and discussed between lawyers of different traditions are employed to draw at least the main lines of a reliable map of the law of Europe.

General Editors: Mauro Bussani, Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy; Ugo Mattei, Universitá degli Studi di Torino, Italy and University of California
Honorary Editor: Rodolfo Sacco, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
Editorial Board: James Gordley, University of California, Berkeley; Antonio Gambaro, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, Italy; Franz Werro, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany and Georgetown University, Washington DC