DRAWING ON THE EXPERIENCE OF RECOGNISED EXPERTS FROM ACROSS A RANGE OF DIFFERENT FIELDS AND JURISDICTIONS, THIS LANDMARK PUBLICATION TACKLES DEFAULT RULES IN PRIVATE LAW IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. OFTEN UNDERESTIMATED, BUT HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL, DEFAULT RULES ARE NON-MANDATORY RULES THAT KICK IN WHERE NOTHING ELSE HAS BEEN AGREED OR PROVIDED. The contributions explore default rules from a variety of angles relevant to both scholarship and legal practice, including: · behavioural aspects and the role of platform terms in the digital age; · the remit and operation of defaults in different areas, ranging from contract and commercial law to succession, civil procedure and private international law; · a comparison between Common law and Civilian approaches as well as the EU level; · the perspectives of different 'players' engaged in the generation and application of default rules.