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Copyright

Martijn Hesselink;

Published On

2025-06-05

Page Range

pp. 23–44

Language

  • English

Print Length

22 pages

2. (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)
Professor of Transnational Law and Theory at European University Institute

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). See https://www.eui.eu/people?id=martijn-hesselink