Looking at the conflicts between private laws in various fields, this collection of essays looks at different approaches to regulating and harmonizing European private law. - Съдържа: Introduction / Fabrizio Cafaggi -- Bringing (private) laws closer to each other at the European level / Walter van Gerven -- European private law and the constitutional dimension / Stephen Weatherill -- Integration and diversity: the conflict of laws as a regulatory tool / Horatia Muir Watt -- Law at, to, or from the centre?: the European Court of Justice and the harmonization of private law in the European Union / Angus Johnston and Hannes Unberath -- A coordinated approach to regulation and civil liability in European law: rethinking institutional complementarities / Fabrizio Cafaggi -- Consumer law, competition law, and the Europeanization of private law / Albertina Albors-Llorens -- Transformation of contract law and civil justice in the new EU member countries: the example of the Baltic states, Hungary and Poland / Norbert Reich.*