December 20, 2010
by General MEPLI posts
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Dear reader, There’s now two inches of snow in the Law Faculty courtyard. Along the streets, dads are pulling their kids on miniature sledges, and snowmen are mysteriously appearing overnight. Its that time of year again. We’d like to take … Continue reading
December 17, 2010
by Willem Loof
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Last Tuesday the Dutch Association for Civil Law convened in the building of the Supreme Court in The Hague to discuss papers written by Prof. Keirse and Prof. Veder, both from the University of Utrecht, on the Europeanisation of patrimonial … Continue reading
December 14, 2010
by Bram Akkermans
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2010 was the year that we combined our research efforts in European private law at Maastricht University in a single research institute. Our aim is to cross borders between the various fields of private law in the conviction that differences … Continue reading
December 8, 2010
by Gary Low
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Picking up on my previous post (7 Dec), a summary (factual background excerpt from the official press release, which can be found here) and some brief comments on the joined cases Pammer and Hotel Alpenhof (C-585/05 and C-144/09) whose judgments … Continue reading
December 7, 2010
by Gary Low
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Most of us probably don’t even think about it, but for those of us who do, we tend to assume (not unreasonably) that if we buy stuff from a Dutch or German website, the transactions concluded at these sites are … Continue reading
December 7, 2010
by Jan Smits
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1 Erasmus = 70 000 descendants It needs little explanation that academic cultures differ enormously among disciplines. Law is often the odd one out: Richard Posner once wrote that law professors are in many respects unlike their colleagues in other … Continue reading
December 1, 2010
by Gary Low
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30 November, Aula of Maastricht University On a late wintry Tuesday afternoon, Jan Smits delivered his inaugural lecture for the Maastricht-HiiL Chair for the Internationalisation of Law. Given Jan’s background and beliefs, it was aptly entitled Private Law 2.0: On … Continue reading