Part 1. Introduction. 1. Welfare State Expectations, Privatisation and Private Law. Thomas Wilhelmsson. Part 2. Privatisation, Society and Law. 2. Post-Modern Law? Kaarlo Tuori. 3. After Privatisation? the Many Autonomies of Private Law. Gunther Teubner. 4. Normative Patterns and the Normative Field: A Post-Liberal View on Law. Anna Christensen. 5. The Legal Profession in a Changing World. Jrgen Dalberg-Larsen. Part 3. Privatisation and Private Law Theory. 6. The Lost Penny Social Contract Law and Market Economy. Udo Reifner. 7. The Crises of Private Law. William N. R. Lucy. Part 4. Privatisation and Liability. 8. Private Law 2000: Small Stories on Morality through Liability. Thomas Wilhelmsson. 9. Private Law and Public Interests. John Wightman. 10. Can We, and Should We, Use Private Law as a Means of Regaining Governmental Provision of Services and Care for Citizens? Barbara Ann Hocking. 11. Liability for Information in Private Law. Juha Hyh. Part 5. Privatisation and Contract. 12. Contract in the New Public Sector. Chris Willett. 13. Dissonance in Freedom of Contract? How to Make Sense of It. Frey Nybergh. 14. Contract Law, Discrimination and European Integration. Dagmar Schiek. Part 6. Privatisation and Credit. 15. Whose Responsibility to Plan for Future Changes in Circumstances Debtor, Creditor or the State? Geraint G. Howells. 16. Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in the Declining Welfare State. Iain Ramsay. Part 7. Privatisation and Environment. 17. Damage, Uncertainty, and Risk: Trends in Environmental Liability. Jenny Steele. Part 8. Privatisation and Access to Justice. 18. Privatisation of Access to Justice and Soft Law Lessons from the European Community? Hans-W. Micklitz. 19. The Crisis of the Welfare State, Privatisation and Consumers Access to Justice. Klaus Viitanen. 20. Social Rights and the Courts. Jos Reinaldo de Lima Lopes. Part 9. Epilogue. 21. From Dissonance to Sense: Categories of Private and Public. Samuli Hurri.