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.
Seasteading and the Law: a Wonderful Thought Experiment
- Law
Making use of the possibilities of present-day jurisdictional arbitrage may offer a viable and less expensive alternative to seasteading.

What Do Legal Academics Do? A Post on the New Elgar Blog
- Law
A new blog on the social sciences and related areas.

A Ius Commune Casebook on Property Law? What’s next for European property law scholarship?
- Law
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.

Aalt Willem Heringa and Bram Akkermans, eds, Educating European Lawyers, Intersentia, 2011
- Law
Constanze Semmelmann, lecturer EU law (University of St.Gallen, CH), visiting scholar, Institute for European Private Law (M-EPLI).

The Future of the European Union and of EU Private Law
- Law
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.

“Blockupy” in Turin? A conference on Transnational Societal Constitutionalism
- Law
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.

Maastricht European Contract Law Students Present Rules on EU Private Law
- Law
The Maastricht Project on European Contract Law shows the importance of innovation in legal education and what students can do when we give them the possibility to take matters into their own hands.

