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In April 2003 I commented on the European Commission’s Action Plan on a More Coherent European Contract Law [COM(2003) 68 final] and the Green Paper on the Modernisation of the 1980 Rome Convention [COM(2002) 654 final].1 While the main argument of that paper, i.e. the common neglect of the inherent interrelation between both the further harmonisation of substantive contract law by directives or through an optional European Civil Code on the one hand and the modernisation of conflict rules for consumer contracts in Art. 5 Rome Convention on the other hand, remain pressing issues, and as the German Law Journal continues its efforts in offering timely and critical analysis on consumer law issues,2 there is a variety of recent developments worth noting.
Reflexive transnational law : the privatisation of civil law and the civilisation of private law
(2002)
The author examines the emergence of a transnational private law in alternative dispute resolution bodies and private norm formulating agencies from a reflexive law perspective. After introducing the concept of reflexive law he applies the idea of law as a communicative system to the ongoing debate on the existence of a New Law Merchant or lex mercatoria. He then discusses some features of international commercial arbitration (e.g. the lack of transparency) which hinder self-reference (autopoiesis) and thus the production of legal certainty in lex mercatoria as an autonomous legal system. He then contrasts these findings with the Domain Name Dispute Resolution System, which as opposed to Lex Mercatoria was rationally planned and highly formally organised by WIPO and ICANN, and which is allowing for self-reference and thus is designed as an autopoietic legal system, albeit with a very limited scope, i.e. the interference of abusive domain name registrations with trademarks (cybersquatting). From the comparison of both examples the author derives some preliminary ideas regarding a theory of reflexive transnational law, suggesting that the established general trend of privatisation of civil law need to be accompanied by a civilisation of private law, i.e. the constitutionalization of transnational private regimes by embedding them into a procedural constitution of freedom.
S.a. Deutsche Fassung: Ökonomie der Gabe - Positivität der Gerechtigkeit: Gegenseitige Heimsuchungen von System und différance. In: Albrecht Koschorke und Cornelia Vismann (Hg.) System - Macht - Kultur: Probleme der Systemtheorie. Akademie, Berlin 1999, 199-212. Auch auf unserem Server vorhanden. * Italienische Fassung: Economia del dono, positività della giustizia: la reciproca paranoia di Jacques Derrida e Niklas Luhmann. Sociologia e politiche sociali 6, 2003, 113-130. Portugiesische Fassung: Economia da dádiva ? posividade da rustica; ?assombracao?? mutua entre sistema e différance. In: Gunther Teubner, Direito, Sistema, Policontexturalidade, Editora Unimep, Piracicaba Sao Paolo, Brasil 2005, 55-78.
Reflexives Recht. Entwicklungsmodelle des Rechts in vergleichender Perspektive (EUI Working Paper 1982/13). Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 68, 1982, 13-59, und in: Werner Maihofer (Hg.), Noi si Mura, Schriftenreihe des Europäischen Hochschulinstituts, Florenz 1986, 290-340. Englische Fassung: Substantive and Reflexive Elements in Modern Law. (EUI Working Paper 1982/14). Law and Society Review 17, 1983, 239-285 und in: Kahei Rokumoto (Hg.) Sociological Theories of Law. Dartmouth, Aldershot 1994, 415-462. Neuabdruck in: Carroll Seron, The Law and Society Canon, Ashgate, Aldershot 2005 (im Erscheinen). Französische Fassung: Eléments 'substantifs' et 'réflexifs' dans le droit moderne. L'Interdit. Revue de Psychanalyse Institutionelle, 1984, 129-132, und Droit et réflexivité: une perspective comparative sur des modèles d'évolution juridique in: Gunther Teubner, Droit et réflexivité. Librairie générale de droit et de jurisprudence, Paris 1994, 3-50. Dänische Fassung: Refleksiv Ret: Udviklingsmodeller i sammenlignende perspektiv. In: Asmund Born, Nils Bredsdorff, Leif Hansen and Finn Hansson (Hg.) Refleksiv Ret. Publication Series of the Institut for Organisation og Arbeidssociologi. Nytfrasamfundsvidenskaberne, Kopenhagen 1988, 21-79.