Maastricht European Private Law Institute - M-EPLI

Maastricht European Private Law Institute

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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.

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. 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 streams: 

1. Values
2. Institutions
3. Markets

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M-EPLI Co-Director Marta Pertegás Sender Awarded Honorary Doctorate

Professor Marta Pertegás Sender, Co-Director of M-EPLI, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by Lund University Law Faculty in recognition of her outstanding contributions to private international law.

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Mariia Domina Presents at UK Animal Law Conference

Dr. Mariia Domina presented her research on corporate social responsibility during the UK Animal Law Conference, which took place on 29-30 May in Birmingham.

 

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Welcome Valerio D'Alessandro as a visiting researcher

Valerio is a YUFE Postdoctoral Researcher in Private Law at Tor Vergata University of Rome and he recently joined M-EPLI as a visiting researcher (January - May 2023). 

He holds a PhD in Economics, Law and Institutions from Tor Vergata University of Rome.

His research, supervised by dr Caroline...

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ERC Starting Grant for Anna Beckers on CHAINLAW

The faculty welcomes the excellent news that our colleague Anna Beckers has been awarded a prestigious ERC Starting Grant for her research project on "CHAINLAW, Responsive Law for Global Value Chains". We would like to congratulate Anna Beckers!
 

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Welcome dr. Francesco Zappatore as a visiting researcher

After completing his Ph.D. on 31 March 2022, defending his dissertation on the theme of punitive damages from a comparative perspective at the University of Foggia Law School that was written under the guidance of his mentor, Professor Francesco Astone, he soon had the opportunity to start a post...

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M-EPLI Blog

Dissecting Tort Liability for AI-Driven Technologies in Surgery

I had the pleasure discussing my research at the intersection of law, health, and technology at  the M-EPLI Talk on 5 November organised by Professors Daniel On and Kate O’Reilly. In the talk, I focused on medical liability for the use of AI-driven technology in medicine. And now in my role as a M...

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EU Regulation Update: The Digital Services Act (DSA) Now in Force

Written by Mindy Nunez Duffourc, Johanna Gunawan and Caroline Cauffman.

The Digital Services Act (DSA), which entered into force on 17 February 2024, governs (online) intermediary services, such as social network platforms and online marketplaces. The DSA seeks to harmonise the rules for ‘safe...

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Are consumers well protected in cloud computing contracts?

Every time consumers use online email, stream music or videos or archive pictures on the internet, it is quite likely that they are using cloud computing. Those online pictures, videos or emails are not stored on consumer’s computers. Instead, they are processed and stored on a group of remotely...

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Professor Vanessa Mak challenges the a one-size-fits-all model of the consumer in modern consumer law in her M-EPLI Talk

M-EPLI was delighted to have Professor Vanessa Mak in Maastricht to discuss her research on consumer law and policy at the M-EPLI Talk on February 6th.

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FullCompensation: Pain and suffering damages shouldn’t be a lottery

The pain and suffering of accident victims does not have a price and, in claims for damages, no fixed economic value. Thus, quantifying the amount of money needed to compensate for pain and suffering is a subjective exercise often influenced by adjudicators’ biases.

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Meet our M-EPLI coordinators Marta and Caroline

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