This book provides a comparative perspective on one of the most intriguing developments in law: the influence of basic rights and human rights in private law. It analyzes the application of basic rights and human rights, which are traditionally understood as public law rights, in private law, and discusses the related spillover effects and changing perspectives in legal doctrine and practice. It provides examples where basic rights and human rights influence judicial reasoning and lead to changes of legislation in contract law, tort law, property law, family law, and copyright law. Providing both context and background analysis for any critical examination of the horizontal effect of fundamental rights in private law, the book contributes to the current debate on an important issue that deserves the attention of legal practitioners, scholars, judges and others involved in the developments in a variety of the world's jurisdictions.

This book is based on the General Report and national reports commissioned by the International Academy of Comparative Law and written for the XIXth International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna, Austria, in the summer of 2014.

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Foreword.- List of Abbreviations.- Part I General Report.- Part I General Report.- 1 The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law; Verica Trstenjak.- Part II National Reports.- 2 Le rayonnement des droits de l'Homme et des droits fondamentaux en droit privé argentin; Augusto César Belluscio.- 3 Human Rights and Private Law in Austria; Stefan Perner and Moritz Zoppel.- 4 Human Rights in Private Law: The Brazilian Experience; Gustavo Tepedino.- 5 Le rayonnement des droits de la personne en droit privé québécois: Que de chemin parcouru mais que de chemin à parcourir!; Melanie Samson et Louise Langevin.- 6 New Czech Civil Law in the Light of Human Rights; Jan Hurdík and Markéta Selucká.- 7 The Role of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms for the Development of Croatian Private Law; Tatjana Josipovic.- 8 Le rayonnement des droits de l'homme et des droits fondamentaux en droit privé français; Genevieve Helleringer and Kiteri Garcia.- 9 The Impact of Human Rights and Basic Rights in German Private Law; Dirk Looschelders and Mark Makowsky.- 10 The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Greek Private Law; Christina Deliyanni-Dimitrakou and Christina M. Akrivopoulou.- 11 Protection of Fundamental Rights by Private Law Hungary; Fruzsina Gárdos-Orosz.- 12 The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Italian Private Law: Strategies of ´Constitutionalisation´ in the Courts Practice; Emanuela Navarretta and Elena Bargel li.- 13 Les Droits de l'Homme en Droit Privé au Japon Influences Indirectes sauf une Exception; Hiroki Hatano.- 14 The Impact of Fundamental Rights on Dutch Private Law: Revolution or Evolution?; Olha O. Cherednychenko.- 15 The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Norway; Kåre Lilleholt.- 16 Human Rights and Private Law in Portugal; Jorge Sinde Monteiro, André Dias Pereira, Alexandre L.D. Pereira, Geraldo Ribeiro, Luís Fábrica, Mónica Jardim, Paula Távora Vítor.- 17The Influence of Fundamental Rights in Slovene Private Law; Petra Weingerl.- 18 An Uneasy Relationship: the Influence of National and European Fundamental Rights in English Private Law; Raymond H Youngs.- 19 The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law in the United States; Jonathan M. Miller.