Copyright
Martijn Hesselink;Published On
2025-06-05Page Range
pp. 23–44Language
- English
Print Length
22 pages
(In)justice in European Private Law
This chapter explores the main justice dimensions of European private law (EPL). It distinguishes three different types of (in)justice—social (in)justice, interpersonal (in)justice, and epistemic (in)justice—and determines their relevance, first, for private law in general, and, then, specifically for the private law of the EU. Grounded in a discussion of the European Union’s responsibility for private law justice, it considers several possible instances of EPL injustice.
Contributors
Martijn Hesselink
(author)Prof. Dr. Martijn Hesselink has been Professor of Transnational Law and Theory at
the European University Institute as of September 2019. Prior to joining the EUI, he
was Professor of European Private Law at the University of Amsterdam, where he
was also the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law
(CSECL, predecessor of ACT). Professor Hesselink in an Editor of European Law Open.
He served as a member of the European Commission’s expert group on European
contract law and wrote numerous studies, reports, and briefing notes on matters
of contract law and consumer law for the Legal Affairs Committee of the European
Parliament. Professor Hesselink has been a Visiting Professor or Fellow at several
universities, including René Descartes (Paris V), Roma Tre, Católica Global School
of Law (Lisbon), Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I), Sciences Po (Paris), Columbia Law
School (New York), and the Institute for European and Comparative Law (Oxford).