European Private Law Beyond the Common Frame of Reference

An interim outline edition of the (academic) Common Frame of Reference has been recently published. It is difficult to predict the political use to which the CFR will be put, although it was the European Commission who entrusted it to a research network of excellence. Nevertheless, it will certainly become the cornerstone of the new European private law. Two strong reasons support this statement. On the one hand, over one hundred of outstanding European scholars have been engaged to this project