Abstract: Harmonization in general, and its application to private law in particular, has become an increasingly contested process. This paper attempts to impose a degree of order on the objections that today confront the EC?s harmonization programme. Three types of objection are identified and (albeit self-consciously unsystematically) evaluated: the constitutional, the cultural and the economic. The paper is intended to contribute to clarifying the ground-rules of the debate into the nature, purpose and value of ?EC private law?.
European Review of Private Law