Latest blog articles

A one-day international conference aiming to evaluate EU Law’s evolution from one initially limited to the sphere of public law to its increasing stake in regulating private relationships.

While fragmentation is a well-known phenomenon in core areas of private law such as the law of contract, property and tort, it is much less studied in other fields.

Making use of the possibilities of present-day jurisdictional arbitrage may offer a viable and less expensive alternative to seasteading.

After more than eight years of work, the Ius Commune Casebook on Property Law  - edited by M-EPLI fellow Sjef van Erp and Bram Akkermans, was published. 

A new blog on the social sciences and related areas. 

Constanze Semmelmann, lecturer EU law (University of St.Gallen, CH), visiting scholar, Institute for European Private Law (M-EPLI).

The integration level needed for a political union must certainly include private law, not only contract, but also family law, company law, tort law, property law and succession.

Conference in Turin on what social and legal theory has to offer in respect to how to tame the destructive expansionist tendencies in modern society.