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Why God’s Favorite Color is Blue: A Report from MEPLI Talk with Jaap Hage – “Justification of Value Judgments”
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Rethinking how we make our value judgments, not just by asking a litany of “why questions”, but through a more systematic process – as advocated by Hage – enables us to debate with one another at a much deeper level, rather than settling for a superficial conversation based on our (sometimes flawed) perceptions.

I want everything: the full harmonization of unfair commercial practices as seen in Citroën Belux NV v. Federatie voor Verzekerings- en Financiële Tussenpersonen (FvF))
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The CJEU delivered its judgement in Citroën Belux NV v. Federatie voor Verzekerings- en Financiële Tussenpersonen (FvF)), a case surrounding Directive 2005/29/EC on unfair commercial practices (UCPD) and Art. 56 TFEU.

Completion of the Maastricht Project on European Contract Law 2013
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Thoughts on the outcome of the negotiation session performed by students where they combined an academic EU perspective on private law rules for the EU internal market, with a political perspective of a Member State.

Maastricht Project on European Contract Law 2013
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Course on European Contract Law - how has it been in the past 5 years?

Property and Constitution – A new and impressive book by André van der Walt
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André van der Walt’s new book called ‘Property and Constitution’ in which he presents a roadmap to develop property law in South Africa.

Who does what in the European Union? On the value of David Cameron’s EU speech at Bloomberg
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Prof. Dr. Jan Smits on the David Cameron’s long awaited speech on the future of Europe.

New Book on Objectivity in Law and Legal Reasoning
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Last week the book based on the 2012 conference was published by Hart Publishing under the title Objectivity in Law and Legal Reasoning.
