Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Lei Chen and C.H. (Remco) van Rhee General The Systematization of the Chinese Civil Code: Liming Wang From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker - On the Role of the Supreme People’s Court in Developing the Law in Mainland China: Zhenbao Jin Factors Ensuring the Success or Failure of Draft Codifications. Some European Experiences: Dirk Heirbaut Property Law 100 Years of Chinese Property Law: Looking Back and Thinking Forward: Lei Chen Restructuring Modern Property Law on a Theoretical Basis: Weiguo Wang Can European property law be codified? Towards the development of property notions: Sjef van Erp A Comparative Assessment of the Provisions of the New Chinese Property Code on Condominiums: Cornelius G. van der Merwe Conceptualizing the Chinese Trust: Some Thoughts from Europe: Kenneth G.C. Reid Contract Law A Snapshot of Chinese Contract Law from an Historical and Comparative Perspective: Shiyuan Han Codification in Europe and China: What Makes Contract Law Special?: Jan M. Smits Service Contracts in Chinese Contract Law: An Approach according to the European Draft Common Frame of Reference: Knut Benjamin Pisler Third Party Rights in Contract: A Case Study on Codifying and not Codifying: Hector L. Macqueen Tort law The Bases of Liability in Chinese Tort Liability Law—Historical and Comparative Perspectives: Yan Zhu A Common Law-like Civil Law and a Public Face for Private Law: China’s Tort Law in Comparative Perspective: Jacques deLisle Uncertain Causes: The Chinese Tort Liability Law in Comparative Perspective: Ken Oliphant Chinese Medical Negligence Law: How to Distinguish and Accommodate Common Law Principles?: Xiju Zhao The Great Spill in the Gulf … and a Sea of Pure Economic Loss: Reflections on the Boundaries of Civil Liability: Vernon V. Palmer Civil procedure The Position of Judges in Civil Litigation in Transitional China - Judicial Mediation and Case Management: Yulin Fu and Zhixun Cao The Influence of the 1895 Austrian ZPO in the Netherlands: C.H. (Remco) van Rhee Judicial Case Management in France—Tradition into Modernity: About some Aspects of Contemporary Tendencies in French Civil Procedure: Loïc Cadiet