An edited volume exploring the interaction between EU external relations law and private law, examining how the relationship has affected the evolution of the EU's competence, the extent of EU private law's reach beyond the boundaries of an internal market, and how the EU contributes to the formation of private regulation at an international level.

Introduction ; 1. The Internal vs the External Dimension of European Private Law: A Conceptual Design and a Research Agenda ; 2. A Triple Braid- Interactions between International Law, EU Law, and Private Law ; 3. The Specificity of Private Law in EU External Relations: The Area of Freedom, Security, and Justice ; 4. The External Dimension of Rome I and Rome II: Neutrality of Schizophrenia? ; 5. The External Dimension of International Family Law ; 6. The External Reach of EU Private Law in the Light of L'Oreal v eBay and Google and Google Spain ; 7. EU Contract and Company Law with Global Reach? ; 8. International Banking Standards, Private Law, and the European Union ; 9. The EU in the Transnational Financial Regulatory Arena - The Case of IOSCO ; 10. The External Dimension of EU Consumer Law ; 11. EU Regulatory Private Law in the Energy Community: The Synergy between the CEER and the ECRB in Facilitating Customer Protection ; 12. Non-Measurable Negotiations: The EU between Transnational Regulation of Pharmaceuticals and Private Law

A leading study which discusses the relationship between the EU external relations law and private law for the first time Offers a new perspective for specialists in the field of EU external relations and private law Systemically evaluates the interaction two fields of law, providing a new field of enquiry which can be applied to further sectors Focuses specifically on external dimensions of family law, consumer law and the law of contract, energy, financial regulation, and telecommunications

Marise Cremona is Professor of European Law at the European University Institute, Florence. Between November 2009 and June 2012 she was Head of the Department of Law at the EUI and between June 2012 and August 2013 she was President ad interim of the EUI. She is a co-Director of the Academy of European Law and general co-editor of The Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Oxford University Press. She has published extensively on the external relations law of the European Union, including Developments in EU External Relations Law (Oxford University Press, 2008); EU Foreign Relations Law - Constitutional Fundamentals, edited with B de Witte (Hart Publishing, 2008); and The European Court of Justice and External Relations Law - Constitutional Challenges, edited with A Thies (Hart Publishing 2014). Hans-W Micklitz is Professor of Economic Law at the European University Institute, Florence; Jean Monnet Chair of Private and European Economic Law at the University of Bamberg, Germany, Head of the Institute of European and Consumer Law in Bamberg, between July 2012 and 2015 Head of the Department of Law at the EUI, holder of an ERC grant on European Regulatory Private Law (2011-2016) and Finish distinguished professor of the Academy of Finland (2016-2020). He has published extensively on European private law and European law, including The Politics of Judicial Co-operation in the EU - the Case of Sunday trading, Equal Treatment and Good Faith, 2005, CUP, with R. Brownsword/L. Niglia/St. Weatherill (eds.), Foundations of European Private Law, Hart 2011; (ed.), The Many Concepts of Social Justice in European Private Law, Elgar 2011, with B. de Witte (eds.), The ECJ and the Autonomy of the Member States, Intersentia 2012; (ed.) Constitutionalisation of European Private Law, OUP, 2014.

A leading study which discusses the relationship between the EU external relations law and private law for the first time Offers a new perspective for specialists in the field of EU external relations and private law Systemically evaluates the interaction two fields of law, providing a new field of enquiry which can be applied to further sectors Focuses specifically on external dimensions of family law, consumer law and the law of contract, energy, financial regulation, and telecommunications