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CESL v CISG
‘CISG Conference’ where experts on the international sale of goods came together to review the Vienna Convention in the light of similar structures such as its latest contender, the Common European Sales Law, or the UCC.
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The Harmonization of European Law: An Ignorant American’s Perspective
Mark Kawakami: "From a rather ignorant American’s perspective, the cost of learning, debating, and trying to apply the continuously changing (or “harmonizing”) European law is so cumbersome that perhaps it is doing more harm than good to the European legal framework".
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Max Planck Encyclopaedia of European Private Law Published
Max Planck Encyclopaedia of European Private Law re-affirms that the emergence of European private law is one of the most significant developments in present-day law.
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European Contract Law at the University of Chicago
Notes from a conference on European contract law organised by the University of Chicago Law School, where European academics and colleagues from Chicago discussed in particular the European Commission’s proposal for a common European sales law.
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Competition in International Sales Law – Perspectives on Choice
MEPLI’s one-day roundtable conference on choice in International Sale Law
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Making European Union Property Law: Missed Opportunities in Property Succession-Regimes?
Succession Regulation - a European Union instrument which primary aim it is to offer a choice of law to accommodate EU Citizens in intra-Union succession cases, whereby Member States are given a set of tools to circumvent the main aspects of its applicationa European Union instrument which primary...
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Summer time: things to do
Maastricht is a typical student city: it’s deserted from all life in the summer. The remaining brave ones are almost only here to get some cash at a part-time job, study medicine and thus have to work shifts at the hospital or work at a company as in an intern. This means life is less vibrant then...
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Is mankind innately ‘good’ or ‘bad’?
One of the reasons I decided to study Psychology is the fact that it covers pretty interesting philosophical topics. The entire field is indoctrinated with apparent contradictions that are fundamental in order to explain our psyche. Great minds have tormented themselves on the quest to find the...
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Quantifying Qualitative Factors: The Increasingly Empirical Nature of Legal Scholarship
Empirical research in legal scholarship: the value of applying regression models into legal analysithe value of applying regression models into legal analysis.