MEPLIs very own Caroline Cauffman presenting on the concept of ‘undertaking’ in the EU Antitrust Damages Directive. #MEPLItalk
Research institutes
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.
Fast facts
- MEPLI-researchers lead the European download lists on Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
- two members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
- regularaly publishing in top journals and with top publishers
- 12 of the 15 PhD researchers are externally funded
- led by Prof. Jan Smits and Prof. Gijs van Dijck
News
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Bram Akkermans Appointed TPR Visiting Chair
Tuesday, June 6, 2017Read moreM-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, 2016Read moreFrom 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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What is Private Law For? A MEPLI Round Table Conference
Wednesday, October 19, 2016Read moreThis Round Table conference explores the limits of, and justification for, the exercise of private autonomy in five main fields of private law: the law of contract, tort, property, succession and family relationships.
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New Working Paper on The Reform of the French Law of Obligations
Monday, October 3, 2016A new MEPLI working paper by Jan Smits and Caroline Calomme on 'The Reform of the French Law of Obligations: Lex Jeux Sont Faits'.
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New MEPLI working paper by Fabian Junge on The Necessity of European Harmonization in the Area of Trade Secrets
Thursday, September 29, 2016New MEPLI working paper by Fabian Junge on 'The Necessity of European Harmonization in the Area of Trade Secrets'.
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Agustin Parise appointed Director of Scientific Studies at IALS
Wednesday, September 21, 2016Agustin Parise was appointed as Director of Scientific Studies at the International Association of Legal Science (IALS).
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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).
Education
All M-EPLI researchers are involved in teaching, one way or the other. In bachelor’s and master’s programmes, their focus is on European Private Law. Students also have the opportunity to participate in M-EPLI research projects in various ways.
Law Blogs Maastricht
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Jan Smits
“I always like to tell my students that private law is the ‘law of the people’: everyone in his or her daily life is confronted with questions that relate to this field, ranging from concluding contracts and inheriting to owning property or being liable in damages.”
Bram Akkermans
“At M-EPLI we try to push the boundaries to improve each other’s research. We work on common projects and frequently meet to discuss developments and new ideas. For me the people and the working environment are the primary reason to base my research at M-EPLI”
Mark Kawakami
“My research is on what private actors can do to reduce labor exploitations in the global supply chain. I feel blessed to be surrounded by such lovely folks in Maastricht and I really cannot imagine doing my PhD anywhere else.”
Blogs
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When a marriage no longer works, you break up. Divorce proceedings are started and if all goes well, both partners can go on to live their own lives. At least, that is how it works with a civil marriage. What kind of problems do women encounter in a religious divorce?
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Many things go well in Dutch legal academia. However, there is a need for legal academics to be more visible to the outside world. They should show why law must have a central place in the big research themes of today.
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Now that the UK is ejecting itself from the confines of the EU what interest would they have to keep the principle of good faith within their legislations? And perhaps more interestingly, what incentive – if any – does the British politicians and negotiators have to negotiate their exit in a fair...
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Caroline Cauffman was recently at Bocconi University giving a talk on competition law and the Antitrust Damages Directive!
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New blog post by Dr. Agustín Parise: ‘Contextualizing Brexit’!
Contextualizing Brexit | Maastricht European Private Law Institute1 month 9 hours ago
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During the next few days, MEPLI’s Anna Beckers and Sjef van Erp will be joining a stellar panel in Osnabruck for the conference ‘A Fresh Impulse for Research in European Private Law’!
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Very interesting talk about “The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act: The First Practical Applications” by our very own, Lars van Vliet 😮 #meplitalk
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New blog post by Dr. Julieta Marotta: 'Access to Justice: A Driver for the Sustainable Development Goals'!
Access to Justice: A Driver for the Sustainable Development Goals | Maastricht European Private Law Institute1 month 2 weeks ago
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We are happy to welcome Stephan Mulders - online reputation and privacy lawyer from Mulders Advocaten - who has joined MEPLI as an external fellow!
Stephan graduated in 2016 with distinction from Tilburg University with a thesis on the success rate of lawyers, using big data techniques to analyze the actual Dutch court judgments over a three-year span. As a lawyer, he currently protects the online reputation of his clients in various cases. In practice, this means litigation against large international internet platforms like Google, Facebook or Twitter, to obtain the identity of the users of these platforms to be able to hold the anonymous user liable for these expressions. Stephan believes that the right to be anonymous should not be abused to prevent the legal discussion about the permissibility of online expressions. These procedures involve topics such as international jurisdiction, the right to privacy and the right to freedom of expression. The other side of his practice consists of advisory services on the implementation of the GDPR and the obligations which stem from European privacy laws. Stephan has a special interest in the right to privacy according to the ECHR and its relationship with the right to freedom of expression. He has written more than 100 articles on privacy and the freedom of expression on his blog http://www.lexx-it.nl. Stephan is joining MEPLI as an external fellow, as he wishes to undertake more empirical legal research, using data science methodologies.
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Maastricht European Private Law Institute (MEPLI) updated their cover photo.
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New MEPLI blogpost by our newest external fellow, Stephan Mulders from Mulders Advocaten, on the ECHR on Hidden Cameras on the Workfloor:
'The two cases teach us that the ECtHR reads local privacy laws very literally if these laws protect the privacy. It means that employers should follow these laws strictly or risk committing a privacy infringement, even if following the law would lead to unreasonable results. On a less serious note, we now know that the ECtHR values the privacy of a professor severely less than the privacy of a supermarket employee. After all, the professors only received € 1.000, each in non-pecuniary damages for the infringement. The supermarket employees, however, are awarded € 4.000,- each in non-pecuniary damages. Well, it seems that the ECtHR applied some ancient Roman wisdom: Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.'
ECHR on Hidden Cameras on the Workfloor: Two Interferences with Art. 8 ECHR | Maastricht European Private Law Institute2 months 4 days ago
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Once more warm congratulations to Bram Akkermans, here below in the middle of his inaugural lecture as the TPR visiting professorship chair at KU Leuven, focused on an innovative take on property law in the 21st century: 'Sustainable Property Law: towards a revaluation of our system of property law'! #TPRwisselleerstoel
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