Preface 1. Introduction: Cross (?) Fertilisation Ewa Letowska ( Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) Part I - The Making of Consumer Law in the EU 2. The Origins of Consumer Law and Policy at EU Level Ludwig Krämer (European Commission, Belgium (retired)) 3. The Early Days of the European Consumer Organisation BEUC, 1962-1985 Koen Docter (Euro pean University Institute, Italy) 4. The Intellectual Community of Consumer Law and Policy in the EU Hans-W Micklitz (European University Institute, Italy) Part II - The Making of National Consumer Law and Policy and Its Interaction with the EU 5. German Consumer Law: Own Initiatives in the 1970s and Transposition of EU Directives since the 1980s Klaus Tonner (University of Rostock, Germany) 6. The Making of Consumer Law and Policy in Italy Guido Alpa (La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 7. The Emergence of Nordic Consumer Law and a Nordic Consumer Law Community and Its Impact on Nordic Legal Unity Thomas Wilhelmsson (University of Helsinki, Finland) 8.

Consumer Law in Poland: Or There and Back Again Aneta Wiewiórowska Domagalska (University of Osnabrück, Germany) and Mateusz Grochowski (Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Germany) 9. Ordoliberalism and Opportunism? The Making of Consumer Law in the UK Iain Ramsay (University of Kent, UK) Part III - Post War History and the Sociology of Consumption 10. Consumer Imaginaries, Political Visions and the Ordering of Modern Society Niklas Olsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) 11. The Making of Consumer Law - A Sociological Critique Thomas Roethe (Euro pean University Institute, Italy) 12. Epilogue: Looking Back to Look Forward Hans-W Micklitz (European University Institute, Italy) and Thomas Wilhelmsson (University of Helsinki, Finland) Index.