Résumé de l'ouvrage : European private law is a new area especially for British lawyers. It encompasses diverse areas such as contract, tort, property, family and others. We should keep in mind that when the European Economic Community was established it had only 6 Member States. Now the European Union has twenty seven Member States and another five candidate countries (Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Turkey) still wait for the green light. The book, The Cambridge Companion to European Union Private Law, edited by Christian Twigg-Flesner, is a welcome addition to the literature and concentrates on the salient issues.