Abstract

Reasoning Towards Utopia In his book, Hesselink measures European Contract Law against the standards of several classical so-called normative political theories. This gives an idea of how European Contract Law fits within a certain intellectual landscape, but there are two things it does not do: it does not tell us how European Contract Law relates to some of the burning issues of the day, and it does not tell us what consequences European Contract Law would actually have. In a time of crisis, should we celebrate the cool cerebral quality of the book’s analysis, or be frustrated that it does not tell us what to do?