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2 ERCL 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/ercl2 and id is 1 raw text is: Editorial With this issue, the European Contract Law Review starts its second year. This might be an appropriate moment to recall what we had in mind in creat- ing the journal and to thank the authors who have contributed so far. More- over, we would like to formulate a few encouragements for the future. What did the European Contract Law Review become over the last year? We started out with the idea that we wanted to cover European Contract Law broadly and in fact even create a European Review for Contract Law in gener- al. We intended to include the contract-related acquis communautaire with in depth analyses of important single pieces of recent EC legislation, with inter- pretations of the contract related acquis as a whole or parts of it, with discus- sion of important input from the national laws, from legal philosophy, his- tory and theory, also from economics or sociology, and as well the prospects of a European Contract Law Code to come. We also sought to cover more specialist fields such as consumer law and labour law, financial services and public contracts, competition and contract law, constitutional values in con- tract law, and internal market aspects of contract law. In fact we thought that contracts are one of the most important if not the most important single instrument in European Private Law development and for European Private Law society and theory. We refer to what we wrote in this respect in the first two editorials. A good number of sections have in fact been devoted to existing European Community law (acquis) and recent developments in it. These sections are namely the case notes concentrating on its interpretation, a section devoted to a constant update on current EC legislation, and the sectoral reports covering the developments over the last two or three years in one specific area, so far employment contract law, consumer contract law, competition law and con- tract law, financial services contract law, and the internal market develop- ments in contract law. This will continue in the future, with reports on mar- ket sectors recurring approximately every second year. There were as well a few articles and analyses on single recent pieces of legislation deserving such detailed analysis, namely the new Investment Services Directive (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, Ferrarini) and the new Unfair Trade Prac- tices Directive (Collins). The article on public services contract law as well concentrates on recent legal measures, in this case a well delimited group of such measures (Rott). There were as well one article and one section discuss- ing in particular the potential contribution of national law concepts to a Eu- ropean Contract Law, and this was the article discussing the concept of 'causa' or 'cause' (Ghestin) and the section containing country reports, so far

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