Bridging the gap: Review of “Property Law, the Nordic Legal Culture and the Europeanisation – Nordic Functionalism Meets Continental Substantialism”, by Johan Sandstedt. Jure förlag 2013. 571 pages. Title translated by me, the reviewer. The real title, in Swedish, is Sakrätten, Norden och Europeiseringen – nordisk funktionalism möter kontinental substantialism . The book is an edited version of Johan Sandstedts academic thesis Förarbeten till en komparativ sakrättsdialog – Substantialismens blick på den nordiska funktionalismen med exemplifiering genom valda fragment, (Preparatory Works for a Comparative Property Law Dialogue – A substantialist glance at Nordic Functionalism with Exemplification by Selected Fragments), University of Bergen, Norway, 2012.