thursday’s class
We will begin with the questions we ended with today: should the EU harmonise contract law, property law, family law, criminal law, business organisation law etc? I tried to suggest that one alternative might be to try to make sure everyone could tell what the rules are in different jurisidctions and allow them to decide which rules they want to be subject to. Cf. the argument that in the US the states should be seen as little laboratories of democracy. Academics often like this sort of argument.
We will then move on to consider the core concepts of Community law, so you should read through to page 60. We’ll be starting another packet of materials soon.