INTRODUCTION - Tom Barkhuysen and Siewert Lindenbergh -- 1 Hans Nieuwenhuis - Fundamental Rights Talk. An Enrichment of Legal Discourse in Private Law? -- 2 Jan Smits - Private Law and Fundamental Rights: a Sceptical View -- 3 Vino Timmerman - Some Thoughts on the Impact of Fundamental Rights on Dutch Company Law -- 4 Wim Voermans - Applicability of Fundamental Rights in Private Law: what is the Legislature to do? An Intermezzo from a Constitutional Point of View -- 5 Tom Barkhuysen and Michiel van Emmerik - Constitutionalisation of Private Law: the European Convention on Human Rights Perspective -- 6 Gert Brüggemeier - Constitutionalisation of Private Law - The German Perspective -- 7 Stathis Banakas - The Constitutionalisation of Private Law in the UK: is there an Emperor inside the new Clothes? -- 8 Siewert Lindenbergh - The Constitutionalisation of Private Law in the Netherlands -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.