Welcome

Welcome to the website of the "Casebook Project" (in full: the "Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe" project). This website contains general information on the project, inter alia on its concept and aims, research method (the so-called "bottom-up approach") and development. The left-hand menu leads to the pages with general information.

This website also serves as a starting point for those who want to familiarise themselves with the content of the Casebooks. It contains the full tables of contents as well as the tables of cases and of legislation of each casebook. Click on a title in the list below or on a cover to get access to the tables:

• W van Gerven, P Larouche, J Lever, G Viney and C Von Bar, Tort Law - Scope of Protection (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 1999)
• W van Gerven, P Larouche and J Lever, Tort Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2000)
• H Beale, H Kötz, A Hartkamp and D Tallon (eds.), Contract Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2002)
• J Beatson and EJH Schrage (eds.), Unjustified Enrichment (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2003)
• D Schiek, L Waddington and M Bell (eds.), Non-Discrimination Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2007)

The most important function of this website is to provide a living resource to supplement the published casebooks. It allows readers to go further where desired. The website does, for instance, contain many of the original language versions of those extracts translated during the compilation of the casebooks on Tort Law (both for the preliminary volume "Scope of Protection" and the full edition) and the Casebook Non-Discrimination Law. Sometimes the translated excerpts in the printed casebook are shorther than the original language version on this website: if so, the parts which are only available on this website are coloured in green.

In addition, and in particular with respect to the most recent volume, where the full text of an extract (e.g. a court decision) or additional/background information is publicly available on the internet, then the relevant hyperlink is available on this site. The original language versions and the hyperlinks to full text source materials can easily be reached via the detailed tables of contents wherein each excerpt is listed separately. The right hand menus of the pages which deal with particular casebooks also contain links to the detailed tables of contents as well as handy drop-down lists which enable fast navigation between chapters and directly to excerpts on the basis of the specific threefold bold numbers which are used in the printed casebooks.

The website also contains hundreds of additional pages of texts complementing the full edition of the Casebook on Tort Law (open its detailed table of contents and click on one of the section headings that is followed by the pdf icon in order to get access to these additional materials).

Last but not least, this website pays specific attention to the (new) casebooks in preparation. The following teams are making good headway:

• JHM van Erp (ed.), Property Law
• H Beale, D Tallon, B Fauvarque-Cosson, JW Rutgers and S Vogenauer, Contract Law (2nd edition)
• HW Micklitz, J Stuyck and E Terryn (eds.), Consumer Law
• CH van Rhee and P Oberhammer (eds.), Civil Procedure
• H Schneider (ed.), Law and Art
• A Davies, F Hendrickx, R Krause, M Schmidt, E Verhulp and C Vigneau, Labour Law

All your remarks and suggestions are most welcome. Do not hesitate to suggest case law or other source material which you deem eligible for excerption in one of the new casebooks in preparation or in the updates of Contract Law or Tort Law. Please send your suggestions to the research coordinator.

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