Welcome to the website of the 'Ius Commune Casebooks for the Common Law of Europe'.
The Casebook Project fosters cooperation among legal scholars from all over Europe who join forces to develop teaching materials for use in comparative law courses. The authors combine extracts from national sources (in particular from case law) with excerpts from the European level. Introductions, explanatory and comparative notes and questions put the materials in context. The aim of the Project is to enable students across Europe and beyond to discuss the same leading cases and materials. The Casebooks expressly adhere to a bottom-up approach to the study of the law. They intend to uncover common principles already underlying existing laws.
So far, the series covers the following fields: Tort Law (2000), Contract Law (2002), Unjustified Enrichment (2003), Non-Discrimination Law (2007) and Consumer Law (2010). Revised editions of Contract Law and Tort Law are currently in preparation. Future volumes will relate to Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, Constitutional Law, Judicial Review of Administrative Action, Labour Law, Law and Art, Legal History and Property Law.
This website presents the project as such (news, approach…), but its main aim is to provide a living resource supplementing each of the casebooks with additional materials, original language and/or full text versions of excerpts and user comments which can all be reached easily via the full tables of contents of the Casebooks. Moreover, the website enables author teams to expand their casebook after publication, adding new excerpts dealing with recent evolutions or relating to legal systems that remained uncovered in the printed book.
The Casebook Project has been initiated by Prof. Walter van Gerven (emeritus professor at the Univerities of Leuven and Maastricht and former Advocate General at the ECJ) who still acts as its general editor. The METRO Institute for Transnational Legal Research of Maastricht University (the Netherlands) and the Centre for a Common Law of Europe (CCLE) of the University of Leuven (Belgium) co-host the project.
Essential information on the Ius Commune Casebook Project is also available in the following languages: 
Deutsche Einführung | 
Introduction française | 
Nederlandse inleiding.
Comments and suggestions for improvement are most welcome at dimitri.droshout@maastrichtuniversity.nl.