Del Duca, Louis F.; Kritzer, Albert H.; Nagel, Daniel --- "Achieving Optimal Use of Harmonisation Techniques in an Increasingly Interrelated Twenty-first Century World–Consumer Sales: Moving the EU Harmonisation Process to a Global Plane" [2012] ELECD 359; in Andenas, Mads; Andersen, Baasch Camilla (eds), "Theory and Practice of Harmonisation" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

Book Title: Theory and Practice of Harmonisation

Editor(s): Andenas, Mads; Andersen, Baasch Camilla

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849800013

Section: Chapter 15

Section Title: Achieving Optimal Use of Harmonisation Techniques in an Increasingly Interrelated Twenty-first Century World–Consumer Sales: Moving the EU Harmonisation Process to a Global Plane

Author(s): Del Duca, Louis F.; Kritzer, Albert H.; Nagel, Daniel

Number of pages: 14

Extract:

15. Achieving optimal use of
harmonisation techniques in an
increasingly interrelated twenty-
first century world­consumer sales:
moving the EU harmonisation process
to a global plane
Louis F. Del Duca, Albert H. Kritzer and
Daniel Nagel*

INTRODUCTION
There has been, and continues to be, robust and interesting scholarship gener-
ated in the last decade on the need, feasibility and content of a harmonised
European Civil Code, the Common Frame of Reference `tool box' approach,
the harmonisation of European Contract law or the European Law of Obliga-
tions, and the decision of the Commission of the European Community to focus
on harmonising the existing Acquis Communitaire of the already promulgated
consumer protection directives has been well documented.1


* Louis F. Del Duca is Edward N. Polisher Distinguished Faculty Scholar, The
Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law. Albert H Kritzer (Deceased)
was formerly Executive Secretary of the Institute of International Commercial Law of the
Pace University School of Law, USA. Ph.D. candidate Daniel Nagel studied law at the
University of Heidelberg and Leeds University. This chapter is based on a paper given at
the 14th conference of the International Academy of Commercial and Consumer Law in
Bamberg, 31 July to 2 August 2008, also published in the UCC Law Journal. Copyright
2008 Louis Del Duca, Albert Kritzer and Dan Nagel. Reprinted with permission.
1
Michael Joachim Bonell, The CISG, European Contract Law and the Develop-
ment of a World Contract Law, 56 Am. J. Comp. L. 1, 9­15 (2008), ...