This article argues that the vision of a social law of contract is exhibited in the judgment of the Swiss Federal Court in Post v. Verein gegen Tierfabriken (“VgT”). The judgment is one of a law of contract that interacts with a community of the subjects instead of the individual subjects of a community. This paper contends that law today has the task of providing for the areas of social autonomy from which “civil society” is built up and in which, at the same time, the increasing social fragmentation can be overcome piecemeal. The article argues that conceiving contract law as civil society constitutionalism, as the constitution not of the state but of society, is the jurisprudential task for our time.
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机译：本文认为，瑞士联邦法院在Post诉Verein gegen Tierfabriken（“ VgT”）一案的判决中体现了合同社会法的愿景。判决是合同法中的一种，它与主体的社区而不是社区的各个主体相互作用。本文认为，今天的法律的任务是提供社会自治领域，从中建立“公民社会”，与此同时，可以逐步克服日益加剧的社会分裂。文章认为，将契约法视为公民社会的宪政主义，不是国家的宪法，而是社会的宪法，是我们时代的法学任务。
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