Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Table of Cases -- 1 Introduction -- Pt. I Constitutional Values and Private Law - The Theoretical Framework -- 2 Constitutional Human Rights and Private Law -- 3 Constitutional Values and Private Law in Canada -- 4 Determining the Stakes: Binding and Non-binding Bills of Rights -- 5 Human Rights and Private Law in German Constitutional Development and in the Jurisdiction of the Federal Constitutional Court -- 6 Importing Constitutional Values through Blanket Clauses -- Pt. II The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights -- 7 The Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on English Tort and Contract Law -- 8 The European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and German Private Law -- Pt. III Contract and Property Law -- 9 Freedom of Contract, Human Rights and Human Dignity -- 10 Equality of Opportunity and Private Law -- 11 Property Rights, Public Policy and the Limits of the Legal Power to Discriminate -- Pt. IV Labour Law -- 12 Enforcement of Employment Contracts and the Anti-Slavery Norm -- 13 Human Rights and the Employment Relationship: A Look Through the Prism of Juridification -- Pt. V The Law of Torts -- 14 Negligence and Human Rights: Reconsidering Osman -- 15 Horizontal Equality and the Law of Torts -- 16 Privacy in the Digital Age: Vanishing in Cyberspace? -- Index