The Europeanisation of private law is very much a topical theme. And although this theme no longer very new, it has, in the last three years, developed a new dynamic. Anyone taking it up with the intention or hope of keeping up with the pace of legal policy development and remaining on top of the current stage of the academic debate is letting himself in for a race in which he will inevitably feel like the unfortunate hare which, despite all its efforts, kept on