Party autonomy and the role of information in the internal market

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Part 1. The Overall Structure -- Chapter 1. Party Autonomy and the Role of Information in the Internal Market - an Overview -- Part 2. Party Autonomy and Information - Normative and Theoretical Foundations -- Section 1. Constitutional Aspects of Party Autonomy and Its Limits -- Chapter 2. Constitutional Aspects of Party Autonomy and Its Limits - The Perspective of Law -- Chapter 3. Constitutional Aspects of Party Autonomy and Its Limits - The Perspective of Constitutional Economics -- Section 2. Information Problems and Market Failure: The Perspective of Economics -- Chapter 4. Consumer Information Problems - Causes and Consequences -- Chapter 5. Information in the Market Economy - Cognitive Errors and Legal Correctives -- Part 3. Supremacy of Party Autonomy and Information under the EC Treaty -- Chapter 6. Basic Freedoms - Extending Party Autonomy across Borders -- Chapter 7. Disclosure Rules (Information) as a Primary Tool in the Doctrine on Measures Having an Equivalent Effect -- Part 4. Information Rules in EC Secondary Law - Justifying Consumer and Labour Law Standards in General -- Section 1. Justifying Consumer and Labour Law -- Chapter 8. Justifying Limits to Party Autonomy in the Internal Market - Mainly Consumer Protection (Kirchner) -- Chapter 9. Justifying Limits to Party Autonomy in the Internal Market - EC Legislation in the Field of Consumer Protection -- Chapter 10. A Comment on Party Autonomy and Consumer Regulation in the European Community - A Plea for Consistency -- Chapter 11. Justifying European Employment Law -- Chapter 12. Justifying European Employment Law - Comments -- Section 2. Information as an Instrument for Party Autonomy -- Chapter 13. Disclosure Rules as a Primary Tool for Fostering Party Autonomy.

Main description: Examination of Party Autonomy and its limits has always raised fundamental questions in national contract and private law. The concentration on information solutions which enhance and leave more space to party autonomy is a fundamentally new approach to this core issue and is typical of Community legislation. The complexity of the question made it advisable to have the different aspects treated and discussed by specialists in different areas: by legal scholars and economists, by EC law and by contract law specialists, by scholars from different jurisdictions with different regulatory approaches and backgrounds. The four parts deal with (1) the economic and constitutionell foundations of the question, with (2) the framework to be found in EC treaty law, with (3) the fundamental and more general aspects relating to substantive EC contract law legislation, and with (4) the most important individual legal measures. The book covers both general contract law (with consumer contracts) and labour contract law.