Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION – SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ACCESS JUSTICE IN PRIVATE LAW 1. Introduction Hans-W. Micklitz PART II: CORRECTIVE, COMMUTATIVE, PROCEDURAL AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 2. Social Justice and Legal Justice Wojciech Sadurski 3. Can We Make Sense of Commutative Justice? A Comment on Professor Wojciech Sadurski Christine Chwaszcza 4. Commutative, Distributive and Procedural Justice: A Response to Professor Christine Chwaszcza Wojciech Sadurski 5. A Rejoinder Christine Chwaszcza PART III: CONSTITUTIONAL VALUES AND PRIVATE LAW 6. Constitutional Justice and the Perennial Task of ‘Constitutionalizing’ Law and Society through ‘Participatory Justice’ Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann 7. The Constitutionalization of European Private Law as a Path to Social Justice? Hugh Collins 8. The Nile Perch in European Private Law Ugo Mattei PART IV: SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE 9. At the Roots of European Private Law: Social Justice, Solidarity and Conflict in the Proprietary Order Alessandro Somma 10. Social Justice in the Welfare State from the Perspective of the Comparative History of Institutions Cornelius Torp 11. A Vision of Social Justice in French Private Law: Paternalism and Solidarity Ruth Sefton-Green 12. Meaning(s) of Social Justice in Nordic Countries Pia Letto-Vanamo 13. The Europeanization of Social Justice and the Judiciary: How Will Judges React in the EU Member States? Arthur Dyevre PART V: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN LABOUR, CONSUMPTION AND COMPETITION Labour 14. Labour Relations and the Concept of Social Justice in the European Union Marie-Ange Moreau Consumption 15. The Transformation of Contractual Justice – A Historical and Comparative Account of the Impact of Consumption Hannes Rösler 16. Social Justice in the Office of Fair Trading versus Commutative Justice in the Supreme Court Chris Willett 17. Social Peace via Pragmatic Civil Rights – the Scandinavian Model of Consumer Law Bastian Schüller Competition 18. Towards a European Model of Economic Justice: The Role of Competition Law K.J. Cseres Index