Introduction&Lei Chen and C.H. (Remco) van Rhee 1
GENERAL 21
The Systematization of the Chinese Civil Code&Liming Wang 21
From a Supplementary Legislator to a Legitimate Judicial Lawmaker--On the Role of the Supreme People's Court in Developing the Law in Mainland China&Zhenbao Jin 29
Factors Ensuring the Success or Failure of Draft Codifications. Some European Experiences&Dirk Heirbaut 61
PROPERTY LAW 61
100 Years of Chinese Property Law: Looking Back and Thinking Forward&Lei Chen 87
Restructuring Modern Property Law on a Theoretical Basis&Weiguo Wang 109
Can European Property Law be Codified? Towards the Development of Property Notions&Sjefvan Erp 153
A Comparative Assessment of the Provisions of the New Chinese Property Code on Condominiums&Cornelius G. van der Merwe 177
Conceptualizing the Chinese Trust: Some Thoughts from Europe&Kenneth G.C. Reid 209
CONTRACT LAW 235
A Snapshot of Chinese Contract Law from an Historical and Comparative Perspective&Shiyuan Han 235
Codification in Europe and China: What Makes Contract Law Special?&Jan M. Smaits 257
Service Contracts in Chinese Contract Law: An Approach according to the European Draft Common Frame of Reference&Knut B. Pi?ler 273
Third Party Rights in Contract: A Case Study on Codifying and not Codifying&Hector L. MacQueen 309
TORT LAW 335
The Bases of Liability in Chinese Tort Liability Law--Historical and Comparative Perspectives&YanZhu 335
A Common Law-like Civil Law and a Public Face for Private Law:China's Tort Law in Comparative Perspective&Jacques deLisle 353
Uncertain Causes: The Chinese Tort Liability Law in Comparative Perspective&Ken Oliphant 395
Chinese Medical Negligence Law: How to Distinguish and Accommodate Common Law Principles?&Xiju Zhao 409
The Great Spill in the Gulf ... and a Sea of Pure Economic Loss: Reflections on the Boundaries of Civil Liability&Vernon V. Palmer 455
CIVIL PROCEDURE 495
The Position of Judges in Civil Litigation in Transitional China-Judicial Mediation and Case Management&Yulin Fu and Zhixun Cao 495
The Influence of the 1895 Austrian ZPO in the Netherlands&C.H. (Remco) van Rhee 521
Judicial Case Management in France--Tradition into Modernity:About some Aspects of Contemporary Tendencies in French Civil Procedure&Lo?c Cadiet 541