Toward Transformative Private Law: Research Strategies

Abstract

In this paper, I propose a way to study private law for change by showing a variety of legal alternatives to the neoliberal dogmas - through history, comparative research and the ‘diverse economies’ frameworks. Using these three scholarly approaches can help decentre the overwhelming necessity of neoliberal capitalism in private law thinking and renew private legal imagination. Such an opening will be crucial for our capacity to even begin imagining credible economic alternatives: realistic utopias that provide for a less insatiable prosperity.

Keywords: private law, transformative law, research methods, diverse economies, European law