What solidarity? A look behind the veil of solidarity in 'Corona times' contractual relations

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Authors
Publication date 2021
Journal Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy
Volume | Issue number 50 | 2
Pages (from-to) 239-250
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)
  • Faculty of Law (FdR)
Abstract The paper uses three prominent examples from the Dutch context to problematise the relationship between contractual and social solidarity in the corona crisis. The social science ideal types of “mechanical” and “organic” solidarity, and their typified correspondence with legal modes of punishment and compensation, are used to illuminate the way in which solidarity language in private relationships can convey and normalise assumptions about the public interest and economic order.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.5553/NJLP/221307132021050002010
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