Table Of ContentNational Legal Systems and Globalization
Pierre Larouche Péter Cserne
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National Legal Systems
and Globalization
New Role, Continuing Relevance
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Editors
Pierre Larouche Péter Cserne
Tilburg LawSchool HullLaw School
Tilburg University Universityof Hull
Tilburg Hull
The Netherlands UK
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Preface
ThisbookistheoutcomeofaresearchprojectwhichwasconductedattheTilburg
Law and Economics Center (TILEC), a joint research centre of the Faculties of
Law and of Economics and Business Administration of Tilburg University,
between 2007 and 2011.
The project was commissioned and funded by the Hague Institute for Inter-
nationalisationofLaw(HiiL),projectnumber100-16-503.Weareverygratefulto
HiiL,andinparticulartoitsDirectorSamMullerandDeputyDirectorDavidRaic,
for financial support and understanding throughout the duration of the project.
Morly Frishman and Yordana Keremidchieva, both of HiiL, also provided help
and support, for which the editors are thankful.
The project was directed by Pierre Larouche,Professor of Competition Law at
Tilburg University. Initially, the project team included Filomena Chirico and
SaskiaLavrijssen.AfterbothmovedontopositionsoutsideofTilburgUniversity,
MaartjedeVisserjoinedtheproject.Shealsomovedtoanotherproject,whichled
to Péter Cserne joining the team for the completion of the project. While these
changes caused some delays in the research, they did enrich the overall result by
broadeningtherangeofexperiencesthatwentintothecontributions.Themembers
oftheteamwerealsoabletocountonmuchrespectedcolleagues,suchasMonica
Claes, Eric van Damme or Leigh Hancher, as co-authors for some of the contri-
butions. Finally, Angela Maria Noguera helped the team during her studies in
Tilburg and produced an empirical contribution to the project as part of her
masters’ thesis. More details on the contributors are provided on the following
pages.
Conducted within HiiL’s general Research Programme, the project has ana-
lysed, in an interdisciplinary manner, how national legal systems cope with the
challenges of globalisation. The research output of the project has already gained
societal relevance by contributing to ongoing practical discussions, on the review
andreformofEuropeannetworksofnationalregulatoryauthorities(NRAs)andon
the unification or harmonisation of private law in Europe, among others. Putting
theindividualcontributions togetherinthiscollectivevolume, wehopetodeliver
added value by highlighting the synergies between the various contributions. We
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trustthattheoutputoftheprojectwillfurthercontributetodebates,bothpractical
and academic, on the role of law in the global world.
Mostchaptersinthisbookhavebeenpreviouslypublishedindifferentversions
in academic journals or books. We are grateful to copyright holders for allowing
the publication of new versions of the original published pieces. For the present
publication, all those chapters have been revised. In some cases, we are able to
publish, for the first time, complete versions of papers which, due to space limi-
tations, had been previously published in abridged form.
Finally, we wish to thank all our colleagues who have attended seminars,
workshop or conferences where the contributions to this book were presented in
paper form, or who delivered comments to us.
Tilburg, Summer 2012 The Editors
Contents
1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Pierre Larouche and Péter Cserne
Part I Convergence and Divergence: The Continuing Relevance
of National Legal Systems
2 Convergence and Divergence, in Law and Economics
and Comparative Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Filomena Chirico and Pierre Larouche
3 The Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR):
A Giant with Feet of Clay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Filomena Chirico, Eric van Damme and Pierre Larouche
4 The Recodification of Private Law in Central
and Eastern Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Péter Cserne
5 Courts and Expertise: Consequence-Based Arguments
in Judicial Reasoning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Péter Cserne
Part II New Institutions, Common Principles
6 From a Formalistic to an Integrative Model: The Case
of EU Economic Regulation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Leigh Hancher and Pierre Larouche
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7 The Reform of EU Electronic Communications Law:
Revolution or Evolution? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Maartje de Visser
8 Networks of Regulatory Agencies in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Saskia Lavrijssen and Leigh Hancher
9 Reinventing Accountability: Judicial Control
Versus Participation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Maartje de Visser
Part III New Models for National Legal Systems in a Global World
10 Legal Emulation Between Regulatory Competition
and Comparative Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Pierre Larouche
11 Impact Assessment: Theory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Pierre Larouche
12 Impact Assessment: Empirical Evidence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Angela Maria Noguera
13 Judicial Networks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345
Maartje de Visser and Monica Claes
Part IV Conclusions
14 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 371
Pierre Larouche and Péter Cserne
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
Contributors
FilomenaChirico isanofficialattheEuropeanCommission,DirectorateGeneral
Competition (DG COMP), fi[email protected]. Her contributions
reflect her views and not those of the European Commission. At the time of her
contribution to the project, she was Assistant Professor, Department of Interna-
tional and European Public Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, and a
member of the Tilburg Law and Economics Centre (TILEC).
Monica Claes is Professor of European and Comparative Constitutional Law,
Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, [email protected]. At
the time of her contribution to the project, she was Professor of European and
Comparative Constitutional Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University.
Péter Cserne is Senior Lecturer, Hull Law School, University of Hull,
[email protected]. He contributed to the project while an Assistant Professor,
Department of International and European Public Law, Tilburg Law School,
Tilburg University, and a member of TILEC.
Maartje de Visser is Assistant Professor, Department of International and
European Law, Maastricht University, [email protected].
At the time of her contribution to the project, she was Assistant Professor,
Department of International and European Public Law, Tilburg Law School,
Tilburg University, and a member of TILEC.
Leigh Hancher is Professor of European Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg
University, and a member of TILEC, [email protected]. Of
Counsel, Allen & Overy.
Pierre Larouche is Professor of Competition Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg
University,andafoundingdirectorofTILEC,[email protected].
Saskia Lavrijssen is Professor of Consumer and Energy Law, Faculty of Law,
University of Amsterdam, [email protected]. At the time of her contri-
butiontotheproject,shewasAssistantProfessor,DepartmentofInternationaland
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European Public Law, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University, and the research
coordinator of TILEC.
Angela Maria Noguera is an official at Superintendence of Industry and
Commerce,thecompetitionauthorityofColumbia.Atthetimeofhercontribution
to the project, she was a student in the LL.M. in International Business Law,
Tilburg University.
Eric van Damme is Professor of Economics, Tilburg School of Economics and
Management, Tilburg University, and a founding director of TILEC, eric.
[email protected].
