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Maastricht European Private Law Institute

The Maastricht European Private Law Institute (M-EPLI) conducts fundamental research in the field of European private law, covering not only the law of contract, property and tort, but also European procedural law, European legal theory and European legal history. Special focus is on exploring the consequences of Europeanisation and globalisation in the field of private law.

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  • cooperating in European and international research networks
  • two members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
  • researchers trained in a wide variety of jurisdictions
  • inviting expressions of interests for visiting researchers and PhD research
  • M-EPLI Steering Board consists of dr. Bram Akkermans, dr. Caroline Cauffman, and dr. Monika Leszczynska
  • M-EPLI management by Prof. dr. Marta Pertegás and Prof. dr. Gijs van Dijck

Research

M-EPLI conducts fundamental research in the field of European private law and related areas. Our belief is that in an age of Europeanisation and globalisation law should be studied as an international phenomenon. M-EPLI crosses borders between both national jurisdictions and the classical areas of law. A post-national legal science cannot take the distinction between public and private law as a starting point, but has to question the relevance of this distinction. Where useful, it also involves other disciplines (such as political science, economics and psychology).

M-EPLI’s research covers both the ‘integration’ and ‘interaction’ poles of the Faculty’s research programme (Integration of and interaction between legal orders). M-EPLI has three research lines 1. Convergence and divergence of private law, 2. Transnational legal method and 3.Changing conceptions of private law.

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M-EPLI’s research takes place
in the following pillars: 

1. Global Justice
2. Institutional Transformations
3. Globalising Markets 

 

News

  • Using AI for consumer protection: creating AI based persona for mystery shopping

    Thursday, July 2, 2020

    Caroline Cauffman obtained an NWO grant to carry out a feasibility study for a tool that automatically creates personas and automatises mystery shopping by consumer authorities. The project will be carried out in cooperation with the Dutch Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute led by dr. Jim Jansen. The project will start in the academic year 2020-2021 and it will run over a period of 1 year. 

     

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  • Caroline Cauffman appointed member of the Editorial Board TvC

    Thursday, January 23, 2020

    One of the scientific directors of M-EPLI, Caroline Cauffman, has joined the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor Handelspraktijken- en Consumentenrecht (TvC), the most influential Dutch consumer law journal. 

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  • Blog IGIR Patent aggregation, innovation, and competition law: setting the stage

    "Consumer and data privacy: the digital revolution of legal, social and economic interaction"

    Tuesday, December 17, 2019

    On Friday 24 January 2020, the Faculty of Law at the Maastricht University will host the International Symposium ‘’Consumer and data privacy: the digital revolution of legal, social and economic interaction’’, with the support of the Limburg University Fund/SWOL, the Faculty of Law at the Maastricht University, and the Maastricht, Working on Europe Research Agenda.

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    Call for Papers for the 18th Joint Seminar of the European Association of Law and Economics and The Geneva Association

    Monday, July 9, 2018

    Milan, 13-14 June 2019

    Law and economic issues of insurTech

     

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  • Bram Akkermans Appointed TPR Visiting Chair

    Tuesday, June 6, 2017

    M-EPLI associate director and Associate Professor of European Private Law Bram Akkermans has been appointed to the TPR Visiting Chair for the academic year 2017-2018 at the Catholic University of Leuven. During the upcoming academic year Bram will hold several lectures and plan other activities at KU Leuven.

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  • M-EPLI fellows at the New Civil Rights and the Rule of Law conference in China

    Thursday, November 17, 2016

    From 7-9 November 2016, M-EPLI PhD candidates Jiangqiu Ge and Liuhu Luo presented their papers  at the conference New Civil Rights and the Rule of Law in China.

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