Das Sonderprivatrecht der Handels- und Verbraucherverträge

Special private laws are characteristic of the German legal system. They conflict with the uniformity of the private legal order and the idea of equal individual freedom. Christoph Reymann analyzes the legitimacy of special private laws, using consumer and commercial law as examples. He illustrates the historical, terminological, systematic and methodological fundamentals of commercial and consumer law and examines the influence of the basic rights of the constitution and the market freedoms of the EU on their legitimacy. Based on the fundamental principles of equality and freedom, he concludes that certain guiding principles of the legal order which reflect either the attributes of the average consumer or the capabilities of the average businessman can serve as a rule to legitimate and control the separation of consumer law and commercial law from classic civil law.