Europäische Diskriminierungsverbote und Privatrecht

Moritz Zoppel examines European anti-discrimination legislation in private law and questions its compatibility with the liberal notion of freedom of contract. The author initially introduces the reader to a suggestion for a coherent system of coexistence of the two regimes from a German perspective. He then explores the scope of EU legislative competence in the field of anti-discrimination law (Article 19 TFEU), and thoroughly analyses the effects of the European Charter of Fundamental Rights on equality rights for private parties. In the fourth part of his work, Moritz Zoppel outlines the legal prerequisites of sanctioning mechanisms in private law that are in coherence with EU law.