Transformative Private Law

Marija Bartl, ‘The Idea of Transformative Private Law’ (2 March 2020)
Martijn Hesselink, ‘The idea of transformative private law: some critical observations’ (2 March 2020)
Chantal Mak, ‘Reflections on Transformative Private Law’ (31 March 2020)
Jacobien W Rutgers, ‘Transformative Law in a Digital World from a Contract Law Perspective’ (23 April 2020)

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Conferences and Seminars

Caterina Sganga, ‘The past, present and future of EU copyright flexibilities’, online, 28 October 2021

Copyright flexibilities are tools through which legislators have traditionally struck the balance between the author’s monopoly – which is necessary to incentivize creativity – and other conflicting fundamental rights and public interest goals … (more)

Emily Ireland and Cerian Griffiths, Law & History Network: Autumn 2021 Online Seminar Series, 28 October 2021

Emily Ireland, ‘Married Women, Equity, and the South Sea Crash: An examination of femes coverts’ management of stocks and shares, 1720-40’; Cerian Griffiths, ‘Fraud and the City of London: The role and influence of City Aldermen’ … (more, registration)

Celebrating Henry Hansmann’s Book ‘The Ownership of Enterprise’: hybrid conference, 29 October 2021

More than twenty professors of law, business, and economics will explore Professor Hansmann’s masterwork through panel discussions and presentations of original papers … (more, registration)

Global legal comparisons: what can we compare, how, and to what purpose? Fernanda Pirie, virtual event, 29 October 2021

Legal systems have taken very different forms and have been created for very different purposes over the course of human history, so what and why should we try to compare? … (more, registration)

Mrs Justice Cockerill, ‘Contractual Estoppel: The Case for Coherent Principles’: Aston Law School, 4 November 2021, 18:15

Aston Law School, Aston University, invites you to the next Professor Jill Poole Memorial Lecture: ‘Contractual Estoppel: The Case for Coherent Principles’ by Mrs Justice Cockerill (Judge in Charge of the Commercial Court) … (more, registration)

Research Exceptions in Comparative Copyright: Sean Flynn, Amsterdam and Zoom, 4 November 2021

Recent scholarship has highlighted the positive impact on scholarship of copyright exceptions for text and data mining and of more ‘open’ exceptions for research uses … (more)

Ius Commune Workshop on Empirical Contract Law: 5 November 2021

The use of empirical methods to study contracts has been pioneered by Stewart Macaulay who conducted interviews with business owners to learn about their reliance on contract law in governing commercial relationships. Since then, the use of empirical methods in contract law has expanded … (more, call for papers)

Negotiation-Based Choice of Law Rule For Contract Formation: Webinar, 10 November 2021

What law should govern the formation of international contracts? Common law courts have long been fixated on two choices – the putative proper law or the law of the forum – despite those choices being consistently criticised for perpetuating logical circularity and forum shopping respectively … (more, registration)

Legal Concept of Economic Activity workshop: Zoom, 11 November 2021

The Business and corporate law department of the Russian State University of Justice invites submissions (in English, Spanish, Russian or Esperanto) for a workshop to be held via Zoom and streamed via YouTube on November 11, 2021 … (more, call for papers)

‘New Directions in Private Law Theory’: online, UCL Laws, 11-12 November 2021

The conference will showcase the work of early career scholars working in private law theory, and give them an opportunity to discuss new ideas and receive constructive feedback from more established academics working in the field … (more)

Postgraduate Law Conference of the Centre for Private International Law: University of Aberdeen, 17 November 2021

The Conference will include panels on Private International Law aspects of International Family Law, International Commercial Law and ADR as well as European Union Law and will be complete with the unrivalled expertise of the Members and Associate Members of the CPIL and external scholars … (more)

Irish Association of Law Teachers Annual Conference, University College Cork, 19-21 November 2021

The Council of the Irish Association of Law Teachers welcomes papers on all areas of substantive law and on any issue relating to legal education or other issues affecting legal scholarship. Presentations are not restricted to the theme of the conference, although abstracts engaging with the theme are of course also welcome. Participants are also encouraged to propose panels addressing specific themes in any area of law or law teaching … (more)

Solène Rowan, ‘Abuse of rights in English contract law’, online 25 November 2021

The paper argues that the fetters on the exercise of unilateral contractual discretionary powers and the limits on damages clauses in English law are imposed to prevent the abuse of contractual rights or freedoms and this is suggestive that a broader principle against the abuse of rights might be at work in English contract law … (more)

Great Debates in the History of Law: Ius Commune Conference: Maastricht, 25-26 November 2021

The workshops on ‘Comparative Legal History – Ius Commune in the Making’ aim to reveal and understand the nature and effects of various legal formants in the development of law. Indeed, forces of legal formants are too often lost or hidden beneath a superficies of commonalities … (more, call for papers)

‘Book of Tort Liability, Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China’: Online Seminar, 27 November 2021

The webinar will start by Professors Zhu Wang and Hongjie Man introducing what changes has the Code made in the Book on Tort Liabilities compared to its predecessor …(more, registration)

Contract Law in Common Law Countries: Conference 3: Disputes arising out of the agreement: Zoom, 7-8 December 2021

Each paper presented is discussed by a panel consisting of its author(s) and a renowned subject expert. Full Programme details available here … (more)

Modern Studies in Property Law 2022: St John’s College, University of Oxford, 29-31 March 2022

MSPL is a world-leading forum for scholars with research and/or teaching interests in property law, attracting an international body of delegates. The conference series has its origins in the biennial conference first held by the University of Reading in 1996 … (more, call for papers)

Socio-Legal Studies Association: SLSA York, 6-8 April 2022

For those who are unable to travel to York, some online provision will be provided for the duration of the conference … (more, call for papers)

Corporate Responsibility and Liability in relation to Climate Change: Utrecht Centre for Accountability and Liability Law, 19-20 May 2022

In this conference we aim to 1) address developments in specific areas of the law within the context of corporate responsibility and liability related to climate change, 2) analyse the possibilities and boundaries of these corporate responsibilities and liabilities and 3) explore potential further developments in the relevant areas of law … (more, call for papers)

Conference on Empirical Legal studies (CELSE): University of Oslo, 9-10 June 2022

The planned CELS-Europe 2022 conference will be held at the University of Oslo. A new call for papers will be announced in June 2021. The papers submitted for CELS-Europe 2020 can be considered afresh but new papers must be submitted if the current paper is published … (more)

Pandemics – Liability and Insurance: 19th Joint Seminar of the European Association of Law and Economics and The Geneva Association Vienna, 23-24 June 2022

Submissions are invited for papers dealing with any aspect of the liability implications of pandemics for the (re)insurance industry. Papers might address, inter alia, the following issues: … (more)

Obligations X: ‘Private Law and the State’: Banff, 12-15 July 2022

The theme for Obligations X is Private Law and the State. This theme will allow participants to explore numerous questions concerning the relationship between private law obligations and the state as a public institution … (more)

Global Meeting on Law and Society: Lisbon, 13-16 July 2022

This will be the 7th Global conference, which is held approximately every 5 years. #GlobalLawSociety2022 will also feature hybrid components for those who cannot make the trip to Portugal … (more)

Conflict of Laws in Trusts and Estates: Tulane University School of Law, 21 October 2022

Tulane University School of Law and The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel’s Legal Education Committee are organizing the 9th academic symposium financially supported by The ACTEC Foundation … (more, call for papers)

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