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Chapter of: Uncovering European Private Law: A Student Handbook(pp. 89–105)
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Title5. Human Rights in Private Law
ContributorChantal Mak(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0448.05
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Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
CopyrightChantal Mak;
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2025-06-05
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This chapter introduces the academic debate on the role of human rights in private law for an audience of master students in transnational and European private law. It first explores the ways in which dignity may provide a foundation for extending human rights protection to private legal relations and sets out the legal context in which the ‘constitutionalisation of private law’ has developed, both nationally and under European law. Subsequently, the societal relevance of these legal developments is analysed and mapped according to three strands in the academic discourse in the field: one that holds that constitutionalisation does not provide a new view on private law, a second that sees a role for human rights in pursuing social justice in private law, and a third that considers private law to contribute to the constitutional imagination of Europe.

Page rangepp. 89–105
Print length17 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Chantal Mak

(author)
Professor of Private Law at University of Amsterdam
https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8236-7242
https://www.uva.nl/profiel/m/a/c.mak/c.mak.html#Publicaties

Prof. Dr. Chantal Mak is Professor of Private Law, specialising in fundamental

rights and private law, at the Amsterdam Law School and ACT. She is a teacher and

former programme director of the LL.M. in transnational and European Private Law

at the Amsterdam Law School. Her research focuses on the legal-theoretical and

constitutional legal framework for private law in Europe, with a special interest for the

role of the judiciary in European Private Law. See https://www.uva.nl/profiel/m/a/c.

mak/c.mak.html

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