M-EPLI Talks

M-EPLI Talks offer a forum to share academic work and ideas. These meetings take place twice a month during the academic year at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. Guest speakers are invited to:

Present work in progress, including papers and PhD dissertations.
Present academic projects to M-EPLI Fellows, including book or conference projects.
Critically comment on recent developments in the law, either at national or European levels, including changes in legislation, doctrine, and case law that might trigger future work in progress.

M-EPLI Talks are coordinated by Daniel On and Kate O'Reilly. Please contact the current coordinators if you are interested in presenting at our M-EPLI Talks.

In past years, these talks were coordinated by Agustín Parise (2016-2023), Bram Akkermans and Caroline Cauffman (2015-2016), and Nicole Kornet (2011-2015).

M-EPLI Talks 2025

M-EPLI Talks Fall 2024

M-EPLI Talks Spring 2024

M-EPLI Talks 2023

M-EPLI Talks 2022

M-EPLI Talks 2021


Tuesday 14/12/2021 13:00hs	Tobias Jonkers	Good Faith and Duties to Renegotiate in Contract Law	Zoom
Wednesday 08/12/2021 13:00hs	Mariano Vitetta	The Right to Understand: Arguments in Favor of Clarity in the Discourse of the Law, from Consumer Law and Civil Codes to Human Rights	Zoom
Wednesday 10/11/2021 13:00hs	Lotte Meurkens	Punitive Damages in Europe: Is the Road Ahead Empty?	Hybrid B0.118
Wednesday 27/10/2021 13:00hs	Anna Beckers	EU’s Dark Private Legal Space: Theory and Methodology for Researching Private Actors in EU Law	Hybrid B0.118
Tuesday 12/10/2021 13:00hs	Lucas Miotto Lopes	Duress and the Exercise of Rights	Hybrid D2.215
Tuesday 21/09/2021 13:00hs	Madalena Narciso	Online Reviews vs Pre-contractual Duties to Inform: A Battle of the Paradigms?	Zoom
Wednesday 08/09/2021 13:00hs	Xiangshun Ding	China’s International Commercial Court: Background, Innovation and Challenges	Zoom
Wednesday 26/05/2021 13:00hs	Mayke Knoben	Compensation for Work-Related Mental Injury: Key Findings and Recommendations	Zoom
Tuesday 11/05/2021 13:00hs	Gijs van Dijck	The Potential and Limitations of Predicting Social Outcomes with AI	Zoom
Wednesday 28/04/2021 13:00hs	Mieke Olaerts	Embedding Sustainability	Zoom
Tuesday 13/04/2021 13:00hs	Agustín Parise	Generations of Civil Codes: A Shift towards a Globalized Conceptualization	Zoom
Tuesday 02/03/2021 13:00hs	Marcus Meyer	How to Unravel Cross-border Corporate Mobility in the EU: Analysing the Complexity of Cross-border Corporate Mobility and its Determinants	Zoom
Tuesday 23/02/2021 13:00hs	Marco Fabbri and Michael Faure	The Effect of Land Titling on Litigation	Zoom
Wednesday 10/02/2021 13:00hs	Caroline Cauffman and Pedro Hernández Serrano	Researching Discrimination in E-commerce and Online Advertising	Zoom
Tuesday 02/02/2021 13:00hs	Rūta Liepiņa and Kody Moodley	Legal Ontologies - What, Why, and How?	Zoom
Tuesday 12/01/2021 13:00hs	Anna de Jong	On Ancient Art, Contemporary Terrorism, and Modern Day Money Laundering	Zoom

M-EPLI Talks 2020

M-EPLI Talks 2019

Tuesday 10/12/2019 13:00hs	Jaap Hage	Do we have Duties towards Future Generations? A Utilitarian Perspective on Sustainability	C1.310
Tuesday 3/12/2019 13:00hs	Marilou Hubers	The Protection of Social Rights in the context of Cross-border Company Mobility in Europe	B0.115
Tuesday 19/11/2019 13:00hs	Tobias Jonkers	Restitution of Property: Risk Allocation in Case of Damage or Destruction in Dutch and German Law	D0.225
Tuesday 5/11/2019 13:00hs	Elisabetta Fiocchi	Towards a Global History of Land Registration in the African Territories (19th-20th Century)	C1.306
Wednesday 23/10/2019 13:00hs	Matthias van der Haegen	Predictive Justice comes to Court: Opportunities and Challenges for the Legal System	D0.217
Tuesday 08/10/2019 13:00hs	Gijs van Dijck	Brainstorm Session on Coding	C0.302
Wednesday 2/10/2019 13:00hs	Agustín Parise	John H. Wigmore (1863-1943) and a Transatlantic Network of Scholars for the Development of Comparative Legal History	D2.215
Tuesday 24/09/2019 13:00hs	Lars van Vliet	US Jurisdiction over European Museums regarding Looted Art	B0.113
Wednesday 18/09/2019 13:00hs	Fulvio Marone	Exploring the Application of the English Trusts in the Netherlands	C0.311B
Tuesday 10/09/2019 13:00hs	Niels Philipsen	The Role of Private Insurance in Governing Work-related Risks: A law and Economics Perspective	C0.311B
Wednesday 19/06/2019 13:00hs	Patrizio Merotto	Transfer of Property as Collateral: A Comparative Perspective	D1.225
Wednesday 12/06/2019 13:00hs	Idoia Elizalde	Autonomous Vehicles: Civil Liability Rules and Insurance Law	D0.225
Tuesday 04/06/2019 13:00hs	Rebekah Ahrendt	The Laws of Performance, or, Private Law on the Public Stage	C0.311B
Wednesday 22/05/2019 13:00hs	William Bull	Tackling the Agent rather than the Ball: Private Regulation of Football Intermediaries, Compliance and the Reform of FIFA Regulations	D1.225
Tuesday 14/05/2019 13:00hs	Ruben Hollemans	ACURIA-Project: The Role of the Judge in Insolvency Procedures	B0.006
Wednesday 08/05/2019 13:00hs	Julieta Marotta	How do Victims of Domestic Violence Participate in the Legal Process? An Empirical Approach to the Work of Public Prosecutors in Buenos Aires	D1.225
Tuesday 30/04/2019 13:00hs	Cenay Akin	Valuation of Ecosystem Services	B0.006
Tuesday 23/04/2019 13:00hs	Monika Leszczynska	Law in the Lab: What can we Learn from Laboratory Experiments about the Impact of Law on Human Behaviour?	D1.225
Tuesday 16/04/2019 13:00hs	Michiel Verhulst	The Quantification of EU Antitrust Damages: A Balancing Act between Accuracy and Reasonableness	B0.006
Tuesday 09/04/2019 13:00hs	Emiliano J. Buis	Gendered Justice? Rethinking the Role of Women in Ancient Greek Law	D0.217
Wednesday 27/03/2019 13:00hs	Xi Chen	Chess Clock Hearing Procedure in International Arbitration: An Effective ‘Time Saving’ Technique?	D0.225
Wednesday 13/03/2019 13:00hs	Stephan Mulders and Catalina Goanta	If the Product is Free, You are the Product: Unfair Commercial Practices and Consent on Social Media	D0.225
Tuesday 19/02/2019 13:00hs	Felipe Oliveira de Sousa	Reason-Giving as an Expressive Speech Act	D1.225
Wednesday 13/02/2019 13:00hs	Patrick Naaktgeboren	Private Partnerships in Early Modern Antwerp (17th - 18th Centuries)	D0.225
Tuesday 05/02/2019 13:00hs	Bregje Dijksterhuis	A Socio-Legal Perspective on the Challenges with regard to Determining the Amount of Spousal- and Child Support after a Divorce	B1.101
Tuesday 15/01/2019 13:00hs	Stefaan Declercq	When does a Notification Gain its Effect?	C-1.310
Wednesday 09/01/2019 13:00hs	Agnieszka Jabłonowska	Protection from the Risks of Contracting in the Collaborative Economy: between Public and Private Regulation?	B1.101

M-EPLI Talks 2018

12/12/2018
Marta Pertegás Sender
Social Media Users and the Limits of Party Autonomy

21/11/2018
Daniel On
Strict liability Regimes and their Functional Equivalents in France and England

14/11/2018
Bram Akkermans
Sustainable Obligations of Ownership?

6/11/2018
Manon Moerman
Private Partnerships in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Law in Books vs. the Law in Action

24/10/2018
Marta dos Santos Silva
The Eyes are the Mirror to the Sold. How Recognition Technologies Impact Consumers' Decision Making and Their Protection

09/10/2018
Giulia Giardi
Questions on Methodology at the Crossroad of Law and Social Sciences

3/10/2018
Hannah Brodersen
'So, How do You Measure Impact?!' Assessing the ICTY's Impact in Bosnia and Serbia

18/09/2018
Dmitry Poldnikov
Reception of European Legal Culture in Russia: How Limited is Freedom of Contract in Contemporary Russian Civil Law?

04/09/2018
Elaine Dewhurst
Is 'Age' Really Different? The Unequal Treatment of Age as a Ground for Discrimination under Employment Discrimination Law

20/06/2018
Gijs van Dijck
You’re Sorry? Then Compensate Me. Empirical Results of When Tort Victims Claim Damages

06/06/2018
Marieke Hopman
The Child’s Right to a Nationality in an Unrecognized State

30/05/2018
Anna Goldberg
Empirical Legal Research and the Criminal Responsibility of Addicted Offenders

16/05/2018
Caroline Cauffman
The Concept “Undertaking” in the Antitrust Damages Directive and its (Potential) Impact on Parent Company Liability in Private Enforcement Cases

09/05/2018
Kate O'Reilly
Rethinking the Role of Consumers in European Private Law

25/04/2018
Ruben Hollemans
Rescue Regimes for Troubled Companies

18/04/2018
Pim Oosterhuis
Grotius and the Secularization of Natural Law

11/04/2018
Lars van Vliet
The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act: The First Practical Applications

21/03/2018
Samantha Renssen
Preventing Bankruptcy Fraud in the Netherlands: A Failure or a Success?

14/03/2018
Nicholas Mouttotos
Institutional Competition between Common Law and Civil Law: The Case of Cyprus

07/03/2018
Barbara Warwas
The Privatization of EU Law via Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution

21/02/2018
Katja Zimmermann
Cross-border Real Estate Transactions – A Beautiful Complexity

24/01/2018
Madalena Narciso
What We (Don’t) Know about the Information Paradigm in European Consumer Contract Law

17/01/2018
Phillip Paiement
Transnational Sustainability Standards at a Crossroads: Private Governance and Public Interests

10/01/2018
Bas van Zelst
The Netherlands Commercial Court: Concerns from a European Perspective

M-EPLI Talks 2017

06/12/2017
Raymond Luja
MCT: Tax Law Perspectives on Grand Challenges

22/11/2017
Lotte Meurkens
Punitive damages, A Status Quo

15/11/2017
Susan Rutten
Polygamy: Facts, Fiction, and Alternative Fiction in Criminal and Civil Law

02/11/2017
Daniel Augenstein
Human Rights in Transition? Corporate Accountability and the Frontiers of Transnational Law

25/10/2017
Sofia Ranchordas
Rethinking the Public Interest in the Age of the Platform Economy

18/10/2017
Agustín Parise
Comparative Legal History: Building Blocks and Disciplinary Autonomy

11/10/2017
Jiangqiu Ge
Policing Consumer Contracts in China and the EU: A Comparative Analysis

27/09/2017
Nicole Kornet
Challenges in Legal Education

20/09/2017
Stephan Rammeloo
PIL Ramifications of the 2008 Financial Crisis for Expatriating Greek School Teachers

13/09/2017
Thomas Coendet
Comparative Law as a Means of Legal Reasoning?

06/09/2017
Constantijn van Aartsen
Is Corporate Law Fit for Purpose?

28/06/2017
Eveline Ramaekers
On the Intersection between Property Law and Competition Law

21/06/2017
Ernst Marais
Possession (and Protection) of Incorporeals: An Analysis of Quasi-possessio in South African Law

31/05/2017
Antonia Waltermann
What Justifies the Obligatory Nature of Contracts?

24/05/2017
Gijs van Dijck and Jan Smits
M-EPLI Perspectives on the Grand Challenges in the Law

03/05/2017
Koen Swinnen
Property Rights in Data Files

26/04/2017
Jaap Hage
Anything Goes: An Apology for Parallel Distributed Legal Science

19/04/2017
Mark Kawakami
Flawed Strategies to Reducing Labor Exploitations in the Global Supply Chain

05/04/2017
Daniel On
The Moral Foundations of Strict Liability

22/03/2017
Jan Smits
Until Death do Us Part? A Plea for a Temporary Marraige

15/03/2017
Bastiaan Leeuw
Big Data and Online Behaviour: Exploring the Possibilities for the Evaluation of E-policy

08/03/2017
Tanja van der Meer
Analysing Skills

08/02/2017
Marcel Schaper
Legal Network Analysis: How to find Order in Chaos

01/02/2017
Tobias Junkers
The Recovery of Money and Immoral Behaviour

25/01/2017
Mieke Olaerts
ICGI Perspectives on the Grand Challenges in the Law

18/01/2017
Julieta Marotta
Rights Awareness through Empirical Legal Research

M-EPLI Talks 2016

07/12/2016
Thera Dieleman
Towards a European Model of ADR for Collective Settlements

23/11/2016
Marius de Waal
The Limits of Freedom of Testation: Discriminatory Provisions in Testamentary Trusts in South African Law

16/11/2016
Mayke Knoben
The Concept of Mental Injury as a Cause for Headaches: Complications Regarding the Qualification of Mental Injury as Damage

09/11/2016
Matthias Martin
R.I.P. Cause (1804-2016): A Paradigmatic Shift in the French Law of Obligations

02/11/2016
Gijs van Dijck
Victim-Oriented Tort Law in Action: An Empirical Examination of Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Cases

26/10/2016
Ann-Sophie Vandenberghe
Finding Order in the Morass: The Least-cost-information-gatherer Principle as Explanation of the Dutch Contractual Doctrine of Mistake

19/10/2016
Orlin Yalnazov
Legal Certainty under Precedent and Statute: Metarules and Metastandards

12/10/2016
Xi Chen
Two Important Procedural Aspects: Autonomy of the Parties and Time Management of the Tribunal in International Arbitral Proceedings

28/09/2016
Michael Faure and Niels Philipsen
METRO Perspectives on the Grand Challenges in the Law

21/09/2016
Catalina Goanta
Convergence in European Consumer Sales Law - A Comparative and Numerical Approach

14/09/2016
Pablo Bravo Hurtado
Diagonal Convergence of Supreme Courts: Comparing Functions between France, Italy, US and UK

15/06/2006
M-EPLI Talk: Academic Year Finale

01/06/2016
Tatiana Machado Alves
Fact-finding in the New Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure

25/05/2016
Viviana Kluger
Derecho Indiano: An Example of a Transatlantic Legal Transplant?

18/05/2016
Bram van Hofstraeten
The Functionality of Private Partnerships in Early Modern Antwerp

11/05/2016
Hester van der Kaaij
A Theoretical Concept of the Juridical Act: An Act that Aims to Create New Legal Facts

04/05/2016
M-EPLI Book Project

26/04/2016
Philipp Hacker
The Ambivalence of Algorithms: Regulation of and with Big Data

20/04/2016
William Bull
Optional Instruments of the European Union

13/04/2016
Stefan Somers
Tort Law and Human Rights

23/03/2016
Pauline Kruiniger
The Tort Action: A Secular Tool for Obtaining a Religious Divorce?

16/03/2016
M-EPLI Book Project

02/03/2016
Lars van Vliet
Law and Art

24/02/2016
Agustín Parise and Julieta Marotta
The New Argentine Civil and Commercial Code: Third-Generation Status as Reflected in Contract Law and Access to Justice Provisions

9 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:30	Dr. Rebecca Ravalli	Consumer law and global value chains: Tracing a missing link in EU law
16 April 2025, 11:00 - 12:30	Prof. dr. Bram Akkermans and Prof. dr. Lorna Fox O Mahony	Property & Democracy

2 Oct. 2024	Víðir Smári Petersen	Preventing Cross-Contamination Between Expropriations and Regulatory Excess
5 Nov. 2024	Mindy Duffourc	Tort Liability for AI-driven Technologies in Surgery
27 Nov. 2024	Deimante Rimkute	Justifying AI-related Rights and Obligations within the EU: A Study of European Safety Regulations and Tort Law
11 Dec. 2024	Aleydis Nissen	Global Value Chain Regulation in the Era of Geopolitics

6 Feb. 2024	Vanessa Mak	Who is the Consumer? The Transformation of Consumer Law and Policy in the EU in Light of the Twin Challenges of Digitalisation and Sustainability.
28 Feb. 2024	Eva Vermeulen	''Dimensions of Inequality and Property Law Design – a capability perspective on Dutch housing”
13 Mar. 2024	Giovanni Tuzet	*Organised in conjunction with the Foundations group.
24 Apr. 2024	Lorna Fox O'Mahony	The Future of Housing: Resilient Property Theory, Systemic Methodology and Sustainable Solutions
8 May 2024	Melvin Tjon Akon	Valuing ‘Value for money’: the wins and fails of the product governance approach to regulating consumer credit prices

Tuesday 23/05/2023 13:00hs	Valerio D’Alessandro	Private Law in the Time of Personalization: Toward a New Imaginary of the Legal Subject?	C0.311B & Zoom
Wednesday 10/05/2023 11:00hs	Klaas Eller	The Price of Human Rights. Confronting Price Squeeze in the Regulation of Global Value Chains	KAP2 0.028 & Zoom
Tuesday 02/05/2023 13:00hs	Eline Couperus	The Role of the Fundamental Freedom to Conduct a Business in a “Social” Europe	C0.311B & Zoom
Tuesday 25/04/2023 13:00hs	Antoine Louis	AI for Law: Bridging the Gap between People and the Law with Language Models	KAP2 3.028 & Zoom
Tuesday 14/03/2023 13:00hs	Wen-Ting Yang	Data-driven Nudges in Investment Apps ― An Opportunity to Develop a Healthy and Sustainable Financial Environment Amidst the Retail Investment Boom	C 0302 & Zoom
Wednesday 08/02/2023 12:00hs	Francesco Zappatore	Private Law, Public Goals: Comparative Reflections on Punitive Damages	C – 1.310 & Zoom
Tuesday 24/01/2023 13:00hs	Vageesh Saxena	CyberCrime-Linker: Analyzing Behavorial Patterns to Link and Identify Vendors in Online Criminal Spaces	D2.215 & Zoom

Wednesday 07/12/2022 13:00hs	Livia Solaro	Issues of Prescription in the Art Market: A Journey between Italy and New York	D2.225 and Zoom
Tuesday 30/11/2022 13:00hs	Arthur Willemse	Law and the Other: Jurisprudential Methodology in Derrida, Rose, and Agamben	KAP 2 1.034 and Zoom
Wednesday 09/11/2022 13:00hs	Raúl Lafuente Sánchez	Artificial Intelligence, Automated Vehicles and Private International Law	Zoom
Tuesday 18/10/2022 12:30hs	Agustín Parise	Emergence and Contours of the Ecological Function of Ownership Paradigm (EFOP)	D2.221
Tuesday 27/09/2022 13:00hs	Rodrigo Momberg Uribe	Consumer Collective Redress: Voluntary Procedures in Chilean Law	KAP2 1.034
Tuesday 17/05/2022 13:00hs	Julieta Marotta	Judicial Understanding of the Impact of Mental Health in Intimate Partner Violence	Zoom
Tuesday 03/05/2022 13:00hs	Hellen van der Kroef	The Use of Multilingual Legal Automation to Assist in EU Law-Making	Zoom
Tuesday 26/04/2022 13:00hs	Kate O'Reilly	Rethinking Consumer Empowerment in EU Consumer Law	Zoom
Wednesday 13/04/2022 13:00hs	Cees van Dam	Is it cheaper to lie than to tell the truth? Navigating the challenges of CSR transparency	Zoom
Tuesday 29/03/2022 13:00hs	Pepe Pfad	European regulations and international conventions: The example of art. 25 Rome I and art. 28 Rome II and the Resulting problems	Zoom
Tuesday 22/02/2022 13:00hs	Martin Munu	Trade negotiations on e-commerce: potential impact for micro, small and medium-size enterprises growth in Africa	Zoom
Wednesday 09/02/2022 12:00hs	Thomas Mildner	Shining A Light Into The Darkness - Uncovering Dark Patterns In Social Media	Zoom
Wednesday 26/01/2022 13:00hs	Michiel Poesen	The ‘Crystalline Structure’ of EU Private International Law	Zoom

Wednesday 09/12/2020 14:00hs	Kristel de Smedt and Ellen Vos	Reconciling Science, Innovation and Precaution (RECIPES): Lessons from an Ongoing H2020 Project	ZOOM
Monday 30/11/2020 13:00hs	Constanta Rosca	Dark Patterns: The European Consumer Law Perspective	ZOOM
Wednesday 18/11/2020 13:00hs	Andrea Ortolani	Receptions and Rejections in the Reform of the Japanese Civil Code	ZOOM
Wednesday 11/11/2020 13:00hs	Michael Faure and William Bull	Agents in the Sporting Field: A Law and Economics Perspective	ZOOM
Tuesday 03/11/2020 13:00hs	Julieta Marotta	Multidisciplinary Assistance and Family Law: The Case of Argentina	ZOOM
Tuesday 06/10/2020 13:00hs	Pedro Hernández Serrano	Sleeping Beauties in Case Law: A Computational Study	ZOOM
Wednesday 23/09/2020 13:00hs	Bruno Fernandes Vieira	Predators and Preys: The Evolution of the Contract of Sale during Invasions	ZOOM
Tuesday 08/09/2020 13:00hs	Michel Séjean	The Code Civil in Arabic, English, and French: Reaching Out instead of Promoting French Law	ZOOM
Tuesday 09/06/2020 13:00hs	M-EPLI Talk:	Academic Year Finale	ZOOM
Tuesday 02/06/2020 13:00hs	Daniel On	A Neo-Aristotelian Perspective on the Aims of Tort Law	ZOOM
Tuesday 19/05/2020 13:00hs	Andreea Grigoriu	Online Harassment: The Context and Response in Social Media	ZOOM
Tuesday 12/05/2020 13:00hs	Valentina Golunova	Better Safe than Sorry? Algorithmic Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression in Europe	Zoom
Wednesday 06/05/2020 13:00hs	Birgit Rebero -van Houtert	Jurisdiction in Cross-border Copyright Infringement Cases: Rethinking the Approach of the Court of Justice of the European Union	Zoom
Wednesday 29/04/2020 13:00hs	Katja Zimmermann	Facilitating Cross-Border Real Estate Transactions in Europe: An Exploration	Zoom
Tuesday 21/04/2020 13:00hs	Monika Leszczynska & Matthias van der Haegen	Judges and Machines: How do ‘Predictive Justice’ Tools affect Judicial Decision-Making?”	Zoom
Tuesday 18/02/2020 13:00hs	Ruta Liepina	Causality, Responsibility and AI: Early Reflections	C0.311B (Maastricht Zaal)
Wednesday 12/02/2020 12:00hs	Sofia Amaral-Garcia	Consensus and Ideology in Courts: An Application to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council	B1.019 (Bestuurskamer)
Wednesday 29/01/2020 13:00hs	Mark Kawakami	How (Not) to Search for the Truth and (Perhaps) Improve the Human Condition	B0.006 (Aletta Jacobs Kamer)
Tuesday 21/01/2020 13:00hs	Kim Berg	Information Exchange between Board and Shareholders: Exploring the Boundaries of the Dutch Regulatory Framework	B0.006 (Aletta Jacobs Kamer)