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

Virtual Book launch: Rob Herian, ‘Capitalism and the Equity Fetish: Desire, Property and Justice’ – 21 April 2021, 1pm-2pm

The book aims to address several questions, including how capitalism has imagined and shaped equity and civil justice since the nineteenth century; how capitalism acts as a well-spring of desire for forms of justice that wrap-around and sustain complex frameworks of private property power and ownership … (more)

Known Unknowns: Legal Responses to Intractable Uncertainties: Online, 23 April 2021

This symposium will investigate, from a comparative historical perspective, the ways in which the law frames and responds to problems of intractable factual uncertainty. Where our ordinary evidential rules simply cannot produce a satisfactory answer to a factual question, the substantive law must choose how to proceed … (more, registration)

‘The Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana’: 27 April 2021, 5.30 pm CST (US and Canada)

The Tulane Law School and the Center for International and Comparative Law invite you to a virtual conversation about the Lost Translators of 1808 and the Birth of Civil Law in Louisiana in celebration of the release of Vernon Palmer’s new book … (more)

‘It’s Just Not Fair!’ Fairness and Discretion in Business Law: Professor Jill Poole Memorial Lecture, 28 April 2021, 18:00-19:00

Aston Law School invites you to the delayed 2020 Professor Jill Poole Memorial Lecture, to take place online on Wednesday 28 April 2021 at 18.00. The lecture – ‘“It’s Just Not Fair!” Fairness and Discretion in Business Law’ – will be delivered by Mr Justice Snowden … (more)

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)

A Sacred Covenant? Historic, Legal and Cultural Perspectives on the Development of Marital Law: virtual event, 20 May 2021

We seek to explore the changing legal and cultural definitions of marriage in any geographical location or jurisdiction across the period c 1450 – present day, paying particular attention to the changing perspectives on age, same-sex marriage, polygamy, divorce, and remarriage … (call for papers and posters)

EU Copyright Law – State of Play and Future Directions: Zoom, 26 May 2021, 11:15am-06:30pm CET

To celebrate the publication of The Routledge Handbook of EU Copyright Law, edited by IFIM Director, Prof Eleonora Rosati, IFIM is delighted to host an online conference to discuss the current state and future of EU copyright law together with the authors of the individual chapters of the Handbook … (more)

ALPS Virtual Conference: 28-29 May 2021

The Association for Law, Property & Society (ALPS) is an organization for those engaged in scholarship on all aspects of property law and society. Its annual meeting brings together scholars from different disciplines and from around the world to discuss their work and to foster dialogue among those working in property law, policy, planning, social scientific field studies, modeling, and theory … (more)

14th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference: online, 3-4 June 2021

PLSC is a paper workshop conference. It offers no opportunity or obligation to publish. The goal is to provide support for in-progress scholarship related to information privacy law. To do so, PLSC assembles a wide array of privacy law scholars and practitioners who engage in scholarship … (call for papers)

Contract Law in Common Law Countries: Conference 1: The formation of the agreement: Zoom, 7-8 June 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)

Law and Inequality: 13th SOAS Law PhD Colloquium, 8 June 2021

Legal systems across the world recognise the fundamental equality of all human beings and promise equality before the law and the equal protection of law. However, inequalities in accessing and enjoying resources, services and opportunities persist on the grounds of gender, nationality, religion, ideological, political beliefs and so on … (more, call for papers)

Juris Diversitas General Conference: Zoom, 9-11 June 2021

The theme is The Dark Side of the Law (La face cachee du droit). It will feature over 70 presentations, 7 panels, and 3 keynotes, with over 100 presenters … (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)

Cross-Border Families under Covid-19: Zoom Workshop, Tel Aviv University, 22-23 June 2021

Cross-border families (also known as transnational and globordered families) are a growing and diverse phenomenon. People around the globe create bi-national spousal relations, are assisted by cross-border reproduction services, or by a migrant care worker who provides care for a dependent family member … (more, call for papers)

Modern Studies in the Law of Trusts and Wealth Management: Zoom conference, 22-23 July 2021

The theme of the conference is ‘Philanthropy in the Age of Covid-19: Asian and Global Perspectives’. The conference will focus on current developments and challenges facing the philanthropic sphere in the contemporary political and socio-economic climate … (more, call for papers)

Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference: Durham University, 31 August-3 September 2021

Our previous conference was moved entirely online. While we look forward to being together for a mostly residential event, we also welcome the greater accessibility for some colleagues that participating online-only allows … (more)

Regulation of abusive informal debt collection practices – could the Scandinavian model serve as a model for EU regulation? University of Copenhagen, 3 September 2021

The conference and publication output will expand legal knowledge concerning all the above by addressing the systemic differences between EU Member States, sharing experiences and identifying answers to common challenges posed by abusive IDCPs … (more)

Contract Law in Common Law Countries: Conference 2: The substance of the agreement: Zoom, 7-8 September 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)

Social and Scientific Uncertainties in Environmental Law: Online, 8-10 September 2021

Environmental law aims to provide regulatory mechanisms to protect the environment, and this requires sufficient knowledge of the environmental effects of human activities, the functioning, services and carrying capacities of ecosystems, and the technical and societal options available to mitigate adverse effects and develop energy, food, urban and mobility systems towards environmental sustainability … (more, call for abstracts)

6th Annual Conference on The Future of the Commercial Contract: London Centre for Commercial and Financial Law, 15 October 2021

This international academic conference continues the successful series of annual conferences on different aspects of commercial contract law. The conference is organised in co-operation with the University of Exeter and the University of Westminster … (more)

New Technologies in Courts: Advantages and Limits: Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 22 October 2021

The main topic of the conference is constituted by the legal-science implications of novel information technology and communications (IT&C) solutions applied to the challenges faced by courts and legal professionals alike in the modern context of administering justice … (more, call for papers)

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)

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)

Obligations X: ‘Private Law and the State’: Banff, 11-15 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, call for papers)

Search this site

Subscribe by e-mail

Leave This Blank:Leave This Blank Too:Do Not Change This:

Your email:

Private Law Theory