New private law theory - the core ideas; Part I . Methods and Disciplines: 1. The inside and the outside of law? ; 2. Private law and sociology; 3. Economics and private law institutions; 4. Private law and theories of communication; 5. Comparative law and legal history; Part II. Social Ordering, Constitutionalism and Private Law: 6.

Societal order and private law; 7. Values in private law; 8. Constitutionalisation, regulation and private law; 9. Democracy and private law; 10. Formalism, substantive and procedural justice; Part III. Transactions and Risk - Private Law and the Market: 11. Negotiation, the function of contract and the 'justice of consensus'; 12. Knowledge and information; 13: private power; 14.

Non-discrimination; 15. Risk, tort and liability; 16. Digital architecture of private law relations; 17. Between market and hierarchy; Part IV. Persons and Organizations: 18. Person, civil status and private law; 19. Theory of the corporation; 20. Actors in organizations; 21.

The principal's decision: exit, voice, and loyalty; 22. Organizations and public goods; Part V. Private Law (rule setting) Beyond the State: 23. Law as a product; 24. Multi-level governance and economic constitution; 25. Transnational law; 26. Private ordering; 27. The shadow of the law and social embeddedness.