Table of contentsPart I. Civil Law Versus Common Law1. Never the Twain Shall Meet?Kai Purnhagen2. To What Extent Is the Opposition Between Civil Law and Common Law Relevant for Law and Economics?Régis Lanneau3. Comparative Study of Legal Reasoning in Swiss and UK CourtsLynn WatkinsPart II. Economic and Legal Thinking4. Homo Economicus Versus Homo IuridicusMariusz J. Golecki5. Three Realistic Strategies for Explaining and Predicting Judicial DecisionsDiego Moreno-Cruz6. Some Thoughts on Economic Reasoning in Appellate Courts and Legal ScholarshipEndre Stavang7. Cultures of Administrative Law in Europe: From Weberian Bureaucracy to ‘Law and Economics’Klaus MathisPart III. The Limits of Legal Transplants8. The “Hand Rule” as a Standard of Care in Swiss Tort Law?Balz Hammer, Sandra Duss9. Efficiency and Swiss Contract LawAriane Morin10. Class Action Lawsuits in Europe: A Comparative and Economic AnalysisRicardo Dawidowicz11. Crown Witnesses in Switzerland?Zinon KoumbarakisPart IV. Economic Analysis in EU Law12. The Case for a Principled Approach to Law and Economics: Efficiency Analysis and General Principles of EU LawAurélien Portuese13. Homo Economicus, Behavioural Sciences, and Economic Regulation: On the Concept of Man in Internal Market Regulation and its Normative BasisJens-Uwe Franck, Kai Purnhagen14. Economic Principles in Antitrust Law in the Aftermath of the More Economic ApproachClaudia Seitz