2010-09-01

Published date01 September 2010
AuthorScott Wortley,Lars van Vliet,Wolfgang Faber
Date01 September 2010
Pages498-512
DOI10.3366/elr.2010.0306
<p>The final version of the Draft Common Frame of Reference – the DCFR – was published in February 2009.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1"><sup>1</sup></xref><fn id="fn1"><label>1</label><p>C von Bar, E Clive and H Schulte-Nölke (eds), <italic>Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law: Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR),</italic> outline edition (2009, available at <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://webh01.ua.ac.be/storme/2009_02_DCFR_OutlineEdition.pdf" xlink:type="simple"><italic>http://webh01.ua.ac.be/storme/2009_02_DCFR_OutlineEdition.pdf</italic></ext-link>).</p></fn> This was an “outline” edition, containing the text of the ten Books which make up the DCFR. The “full” edition, comprising six substantial volumes of comments and notes, followed in October 2009.<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn2"><sup>2</sup></xref><fn id="fn2"><label>2</label><p>C von Bar and E Clive (eds), <italic>Principles, Definitions and Model Rules of European Private Law: Draft Common Frame of Reference (DCFR),</italic> full edition (2009).</p></fn> Although the word is...</p>

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