Law and Economics in Europe

Part I. Civil Law Versus Common Law

1. Never the Twain Shall Meet?
Kai Purnhagen

2. To What Extent Is the Opposition Between Civil Law and Common Law Relevant for Law and Economics?
Régis Lanneau

3. Comparative Study of Legal Reasoning in Swiss and UK Courts
Lynn Watkins

Part II. Economic and Legal Thinking

4. Homo Economicus Versus Homo Iuridicus
Mariusz J. Golecki

5. Three Realistic Strategies for Explaining and Predicting Judicial Decisions
Diego Moreno-Cruz

6. Some Thoughts on Economic Reasoning in Appellate Courts and Legal Scholarship
Endre Stavang

7. Cultures of Administrative Law in Europe: From Weberian Bureaucracy to ‘Law and Economics’
Klaus Mathis

Part III. The Limits of Legal Transplants

8. The “Hand Rule” as a Standard of Care in Swiss Tort Law?
Balz Hammer, Sandra Duss

9. Efficiency and Swiss Contract Law
Ariane Morin

10. Class Action Lawsuits in Europe: A Comparative and Economic Analysis
Ricardo Dawidowicz

11. Crown Witnesses in Switzerland?
Zinon Koumbarakis

Part IV. Economic Analysis in EU Law

12. The Case for a Principled Approach to Law and Economics: Efficiency Analysis and General Principles of EU Law
Aurélien Portuese

13. Homo Economicus, Behavioural Sciences, and Economic Regulation: On the Concept of Man in Internal Market Regulation and its Normative Basis
Jens-Uwe Franck, Kai Purnhagen

14. Economic Principles in Antitrust Law in the Aftermath of the More Economic Approach
Claudia Seitz

Keywords: Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Law and Economics, Political Philosophy