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21st Ius Commune Congress

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Maastricht, Thursday 24 and Friday 25 November 2016

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Programme

Thursday, 24 November 2016

 

10.00 Registration and Coffee

Plenary session

Apostelhoeve

Chair: Professor Hildegard Schneider, Dean Faculty of Law, Maastricht University

11.00 Welcoming address
Hildegard Schneider
11.15 Keynote speech
Jacobine van den Brink, Professor European and National Administrative Law, Maastricht University
Administrative law in Europe: Ius Commune in progress?
11.45 Keynote speech
Roger Van den Bergh, Professor of Law and Economics, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
The End of Utopia: Why the EU should take the economics of federalism seriously
12.15 Discussion
12.45 Lunch (Stockemer Wingert)
Lunch Meeting Programme Directors

  Workshops

14.00 Contract Law/Liability and Insurance (I)
Family Law
Company Law
Taking Stock of the Open Method of Coordination (I)
Trade and Business EU Law: Cross-Border Mobility (ITEM)
Ius Commune in the Making: The Place of Legal Sources

  Evening Programme

18.15 Reception
19.15

Dinner
Presentation Ius Commune Prize 2016
Presentation Ius Commune Certificates

  Friday, 25 November 2016

Workshops

09.00

Foundations and Principles of Civil Procedure in Europe
Environmental Law
Property Law (I)
Art and Law (I)
Taking Stock of the Open Method of Coordination (II)
Contract Law/Liability and Insurance (II)
Family Law
12.00 Lunch (Stockemer Wingert)
Lunch Meeting
Postgraduate Council

 

Plenary session

Apostelhoeve

Chair: Michael Faure, Academic Director of the Research School Ius Commune

13.00 Keynote speech
Sacha Prechal, Judge at the Court of Justice of the European Union and Honorary Professor of European Law, Universiteit Utrecht
Can Ius Commune contribute to mutual trust?
13.30 Discussion
13.55 Closing Kid Schwarz, Chairman Board of Governors of the Research School Ius Commune

Workshops

14.00 On the Legal Challenges of Brexit
Family Law
Property Law (II)
Art and Law (II)

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