Current European Private Law is being created and influenced by many scholarly and official projects. One of the most comprehensive and long-standing of these is the Common Core of European Private Law Project, launched in 1993. Within this Project, over 200 professionals have collaborated to create a painstaking comparative analysis of European legal systems.

This book is a collection of these views, as presented in papers delivered at sessions of the General Meetings of the Project between 2001 and 2005. Since 2004, the Project and its publications have attempted to use the specific techniques of the factual approach as the main tool for understanding private law and the legal foundations of the new EU members. This perspective created what has been termed the "Ten New Treasury Boxes - The European Enlargement and the Common Core Project" in which leading scholars from new EU countries addressed both the impact of the integration of EU law into their own legal systems and the challenges that the "Common Core" method of legal analysis faces. The resulting work is an important part of this volume.


Preface
Mauro Bussani and Ugo Mattei

I. The Western Approach to the "Common Core of European Private Law"

On the Shoulders of Schlesinger: The Common Core of European Private Law Project
Vivian Grosswald Curran

How to Do Projects with Comparative Law. Notes of an Expedition to the Common Core
Günter Frankenberg

Reading the Map of European Private Law. Language and Knowledge in Contemporary Comparative Law
David J. Gerber

Globalisation and the Common Core
Michael B. Likosky

Of Products and Process. The First Six Trento Volumes and Their Making
Mathias Reimann

The Process of Codifying the European Legal System
Encarna Roca Trias

II. The New Frontiers of European Private Law

Notes on Ideological Precepts as Formants of Private Law in Central-East European Countries
Tibor Varady

The Trento Project: The Way to Rediscover Each Other in Europe and Beyond
Tibor Tajti

What Next in the Convergence Process in Europe?
Esin Örücü

The Common Core Project and the Lithuanian Private Law System
Valentinas Mikelenas

Russian Private Law and European Legal Transplants
Dmitry V. Dozhdev

Latvian Private Law and European Enlargement
Kaspars Balodis

Overview of Polish Private Law. Tort Law and Property Law
Ewa Baginska

Development, Situation and Prognosis of Private Law
Lubos Tichy

What Does Cyprus Hope to Gain from EU Membership?
Martha Hayes Sampson

The Development of Slovakian Law in the European Context
Anton Dulak

The Civil Code as a Basis for the New Estonian Private Law
Paul Varul