Private law in the external relations of the EU

Private Law in the External Relations of the EU is an innovative study of the interactions between EU external relations law and private law, two unrelated fields of law, inverted if private law is understood as regulatory private law - the space where regulatory law intersects with private economic activity. Here the link between the Internal Market and the global market - and thereby international law - is much more prominent. In this book, key questions about the relationship between EU external relations law and private law are answered, including: in what ways might European private law act as a tool to achieve EU external policy objectives, particularly in regulatory fields? How might the quickly developing EU external competence over the procedural dimensions of private law, including private international law, impact on substantive law, both externally and internally? And how is the legal position of private parties affected by EU external relations?

Introduction / Marise Cremona and Hans-W. Micklitz -- The internal versus the external dimension of european private law : a conceptual design and a research agenda / Hans-W. Micklitz -- A triple braid : Interactions between international law, EU law, and private law / Marise Cremona -- The specificiy of private law in EU external relations : the area of freedom, security and justice / Christiaan TImmermans -- The externa dimension of Rome I and Rome II : neutrality or schizophrenia? / Stephanie Francq -- The external dimension of private international family law / Etienne Pataut -- The external reach of EU private law in the light of L'Oreal versus eBay and Google and Google Spain / Nilo Jaaskinen and Angela Ward -- Do EU contract and company law have global reach? / Stefan Grundmann -- International banking standards, private law, and the European Union / Jan Wouters and Jed Odermatt -- The EU in the transnational financial regulatory arena : the case of IOSCO / Antonio Marcacci -- The external dimension of EU consumer law / Jules Stuyck and Mateja Durovic -- EU regulatory private law in the energy community : the synergy between the CEER and the ECRB in facilitating customer pr…