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)

Conferences and Seminars

Facilitating cross-border family life: towards a common European understanding: online conference, 30 October 2020

The project’s objective is to assess the functioning and the effectiveness of the framework of international and European family law, detect potential problems, and propose possible improvements … (more)

Tort as Need: Steve Hedley, 30 October 2020, 12 noon GMT

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IP Mosaic Online Conference, 30-31 October 2020

Since 2014, IIPSJ has sponsored the IP Mosaic Conference, a peripatetic scholarly forum in which legal scholars and policy and social activists present and develop progressive theses in the field of IP Social Justice … (more, call for papers)

Mercy in Tort: Stephen Bero, 2 November 2020, 5pm GMT

Tort law systematically disadvantages the merciful. Admittedly this sounds odd, like saying that the rules of boxing disadvantage the merciful. But closer consideration reveals that tort law’s treatment of the merciful is a source of real unfairness and perversity … (more)

Damages without Loss: Sandy Steel, 5 November 2020, 1pm

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Book talk for James Penner’s ‘Property Rights: A Re-Examination’: 13 November 2020, 12-2pm London time, Zoom

The book pinpoints and addresses a number of problems at the heart of property theory. Part 1 reconsiders and rejects the bundle of rights picture of property and the related nominalist theories of property, showing that ownership reflects a tripartite structure of title … (more)

Frontiers in Civil Justice: Erasmus University Rotterdam, 16-17 November 2020

The conference will address four key issues in civil justice, which require a deeper and renewed reflection in light of their contribution of facilitating access to justice … (more, call for papers)

Vicarious Liability after Barclays and Morrison – A New Direction? Online event, 18 November 2020

The Supreme Court decided this April two cases dealing with important aspects of vicarious liability, WM Morrison Supermarkets plc v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 12 and Barclays Bank v Various Claimants [2020] UKSC 13, dealing respectively with the connection and relationship tests … (more, registration)

Artificial Intelligence and the Idea of a Legal Singularity: Jones Day Professorship of Commercial Law Lecture, 18 November 2020

Artificial intelligence (AI), as an idea, has captured the legal imagination, with visions of a future populated by machines simulating legal advisers and even judges. While progress is being made in a variety of areas including partial automation of discovery, due diligence, compliance, information retrieval, and drafting functions, the limits are often hard to articulate. What do projected upward curves of superintelligences mean for the future of law and human lawyers? … (more)

Embryonic Injuries and Nascent Remedies in the age of CRISPR-Cas and Advanced IVF: Chicago-Kent College of Law, 18-19 November 2020

Join us on Zoom for this virtual symposium, chaired by Professor Barbara Pfeffer Billauer … (more)

Private International Law in the current international climate: online seminar, 18-20 November 2020

The Mexican Academy of Private International and Comparative Law (AMEDIP) will be holding its XLIII Seminar entitled ‘Private International Law in the current international climate’ from 18 to 20 November 2020 for the first time online … (more)

The Right to Performance: Consideration in Variation Contracts: Josias Senu, 19 November 2020, 1pm GMT

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Paradigmatic Shifts in the History of Private Law (25th Ius Commune Workshop): Maastricht University, 26-27 November 2020

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)

Unconscionability, Vulnerability, and Autonomy: Julian Jonker, 7 December 2020, 5pm GMT

Contract law’s doctrine of unconscionability is difficult to reconcile with a view of contract as autonomy-enhancing. The ability of a court to withhold contract enforcement seems at odds with respect for the choices of the contracting parties, and gives rise to the charge of paternalism … (more)

Regulation of and Liability for Robotics: e-workshop, University of York, 15-16 December 2020

We welcome papers connected with the broad theme of the regulation of robots, or on liability issues concerning robotic technologies. All methodologies are welcome, and we also very much welcome insights from different jurisdictions. We are very keen to provide opportunities for scholars at all levels of experience to take part … (more, call for papers)

Third IP and Innovation Researchers of Asia (IPIRA) Conference: online, 24-27 March 2021

The Organizers welcome submissions by senior, mid-career, and junior academics. Submissions are welcomed from legal scholars writing on IP and Innovation-related topics in Asian Law, Comparative Law, and International Law, as well as scholars interested in IP and Innovation from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives … (more, call for papers)

Legal Philosophy in Times of Crisis: IVR Turkey, online, 8-9 April 2021

Researchers and graduate students are welcome to present papers on any topics related to the theme of the webinar, ‘Legal Philosophy in Times of Crisis’. The official language of the webinar is English … (more, call for papers)

Equity and New Technological Horizons: Interdisciplinary Virtual Seminar, 8 April 2021

This call for papers is for an interdisciplinary virtual seminar exploring interpretations, intersections, and tensions between the law of equity and new technologies … (more, call for papers)

Commercial Contracts: Recent Developments: UCL Faculty of Laws, 13 May 2021

This conference will bring together academics and legal practitioners to discuss recent developments relating to commercial contracts. Papers will be distributed before the conference, and the discussion started by an expert commentator … (more)

Intermediaries in Commercial Law: UCL Faculty of Laws, 10-11 June 2021

Intermediaries play an important role in many aspects of commercial law. Yet there has been little focussed attention upon intermediaries as a crucial category of actors. The aim of this conference is to consider current issues concerning intermediaries from a number of different angles, adopting a range of methodological approaches … (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)

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