July 14, 2012
by Mark Kawakami
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On 10 July 2012, UN Information Services released a press release reporting about UN Commission on International Trade Law’s 45th annual session, which took place in New York from 25 June to 6 July 2012. While UNCITRAL finalized and adopted important … Continue reading
June 7, 2012
by Anna Berlee
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The closing conference of the CROBECO (Cross Border Electronic Conveyancing of Land) project carried out by European Land Registration Association (ELRA) was as European as can be, with speakers from The Netherlands, Spain, England, Portugal and many more nationalities and … Continue reading
April 2, 2012
by Eveline Ramaekers
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On 21-23 March 2012 I attended a conference in Southampton on Modern Studies in Property Law. This is a biennial conference, and papers presented here are usually published in a volume by Hart. I had originally intended to provide you … Continue reading
January 31, 2012
by Anna Berlee
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It’s 14:15 and we just returned from lunch, and are getting straight back into a tougher bite: legal history and the Ius Commune. The presentation is given by Prof. Dr. C.H. van Rhee, Foundations of Law and Method and Chair … Continue reading
On 16 and 17 February 2012 M-EPLI organises a workshop in cooperation with Tsinghua University, School of Law devoted to contract law in China and Europe. This project is funded by the China-EU School of Lawand takes place in Beijing. … Continue reading
January 18, 2012
by Jan Smits
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Last week my colleague William Bull and I spoke at a conference in Oxford organised by Justine Pila and Ansgar Ohly. The conference explored the harmonisation of intellectual property law, looking at models of harmonisation, the creation of European IP … Continue reading
December 20, 2011
by William Bull
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On Friday 9 December a roundtable conference on the recently proposed Common European Sales Law (CESL) was organised by M-EPLI at the Brussels Campus of Maastricht University. The purpose of the conference was to critically evaluate the proposal, and particularly … Continue reading
November 28, 2011
by Anna Berlee
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On 24 and 25 November, the annual Ius Commune Conference was held in Utrecht. Different from the earlier meeting of Ius Commune which William Bull blogged about previously, this conference was open to all Ius Commune members and was attended … Continue reading
October 4, 2011
by Eveline Ramaekers
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Last week – 28/29 September 2011 – I attended a conference at the beautiful St Anne’s College, Oxford, on The Involvement of EU Law in Private Law Relationships, organised by the Institute of European and Comparative Law. In his words … Continue reading
November 18, 2010
by Bram Akkermans
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Our colleagues at the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law in Amsterdam (UvA) organised a conference, in Dutch, on the Green Paper European Contract Law, and especially the possibility of an optional instrument European Contract Law. Jan Smits … Continue reading