Janwillem (Pim) Oosterhuis in online seminar on COVID and unforeseen circumstances
On 8 October 2020, Janwillem (Pim) Oosterhuis, together with Lauri Railas and Graham Coop, will give a virtual seminar on 'Rebalancing unbalanced contracts in COVID times: how do legal systems approach the challenge?'
The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and the sanitary and other restrictions imposed by governments around the world as a result, have seriously complicated virtually every aspect of modern economic life. Numerous business activities have become either impossible or uneconomic as a consequence of the fundamentally altered economic situation; some have by contrast become more profitable. Many contracts have become serious unbalanced to the extent that one party has a clear interest in either substantially renegotiating the terms or abrogating the contract entirely.
Although the COVID-induced situation may seem unprecedented in living memory, the world has seen cataclysmic events in the past. Different legal systems have various techniques for resolving the resultant challenges. This seminar brings together experienced lawyers from a number of legal cultures for the purpose of presenting their respective solutions to the problem of unbalanced contracts, and highlighting their common features and their significant differences.
Also read
-
Symposium VWR-VSR: Vulnerability and the Law – Multidisciplinary Perspectives
On 14 November 2025, the symposium "Vulnerability and the Law: Multidisciplinary Perspectives" will take place in Maastricht.
-
Professor Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn appointed Knight in the Order of the Crown
Prof. Dr Anouk Bollen-Vandenboorn, Director of the Institute for Transnational and Euregional cross border cooperation and Mobility (ITEM) at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, was appointed Knight in the Order of the Crown on 3 July, during a formal ceremony at the Belgian Embassy in The...
-
ITEM continues: Advancing cross-border cooperation and impact
ITEM enters new phase within UM Faculty of Law from 2025.