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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW
ANNUAL REPORT 2012
Universiteit van Amsterdam
CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW
Postal address: P.O. Box 1030
1000 BA Amsterdam
Visitors address: Oudemanhuispoort 4-6
1012 CN Amsterdam
tel: + 31 (0)20 - 525 7347 fax: + 31 (0)20 - 525 3434 e-mail: y.terhorst@uva.nl
ANNUAL REPORT 2012
1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 3 2. CSECL’s aim and research theme…………………………………………… 5 3. Research group…………………………………………………………………… 9 4. Organisation……………………………………………………………………….. 15 5. Joint research projects & collaborations……………………………… 17 6. Teaching……………………………………………………………………………… 25 7. PhD research……………………………………………………………………… 27 8. Publications………………………………………………………………………… 29 9. Societal impact…………………………………………………………………… 63 10. Conferences & seminars……………………………………………………… 67 11. Invited lectures……………………………………………………………………. 75 12. Other research activities……………………………………………………….. 81 13. Funds……………………………………………………………………………………. 85
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1. Introduction
The year 2012 was a year with many good results. The researchers of the
Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) published several ‘A’
publications in leading international journals. Moreover, our researchers
published five books, i.e. The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization,
edited by Jaap Baaij; The Future of European Property Law, edited by Arthur
Salomons et al.; Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European
Framework, edited by Marco Loos, Chantal Mak et al.; Principles of European
law: Mandate Contracts, by Marco Loos and Odavia Bueno Díaz; and The
service provider's duty to warn about defects caused by third parties: A case
study on the precontractual and contractual duty to warn in English, German
and Dutch law and in the Draft Common Frame of Reference, by Joasia Luzak.
Furthermore, the CSECL organized three seminars. The topics were Private
law and nationalism, Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de
Europese Unie and (in cooperation with ACIL en ACELG) Postnational
Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy.
As to policy oriented research with an important societal impact, researchers
of the CESL produced two reports for the European Parliament, one on
Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply of digital content (by
Marco Loos and Chantal Mak) and another on Unfair Contract terms in B2C
Contracts (by Martijn Hesselink and Marco Loos).
Finally, in 2012 one public PhD defense took place. Guido Comparato
successfully defended his thesis on Nationalism and Private Law in Europe.
Amsterdam, March 2013
Martijn W. Hesselink
Director, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law
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2. CSECL’s mission and research themes
Mission The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) was founded in
January 2006 and forms part of the University of Amsterdam’s Research
Priority Area ‘Private and Public European Law’. The Centre aims to promote
high-quality research and education in the area of European contract law. Its
research programme focuses on the interplay between the European, national
and international laws of contract. Contract law is understood in a broad
sense, namely the law governing economic transactions in Europe.
General research theme The general research theme of our programme is European contract law. We
understand contract law here in a wide and functional sense, i.e. the law of
economic transactions. This includes both commercial and consumer
contracts, and both general and specific contract law. It also includes the
relevant aspects of general patrimonial law and the general law of obligations.
Moreover, it includes important aspects of property law and, albeit to a lesser
extent, of tort law. Finally, conflict of law rules are also included. European law
is understood here as the law that is applicable in the European legal space, i.e.
the interrelated laws produced by law makers operating at the national level
(e.g. the civil code, the common law), the European level (the acquis
communautaire) and the international level (e.g. the United Nations
Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods). Finally, law is
also understood here in a broad sense including not only ‘soft law’ but also the
‘context’ in which the ‘black letter’ rules operate. As a result, research will
often be multi-disciplinary combining insights from comparative legal
analysis, legal theory, political theory, economic analysis and other related
fields.
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Specific themes
Over the past two decades, European private law has developed into an
established field of academic research. Within that field we aim at innovative
specific lines of research. In 2012-2014, the focus will be, in particular, on
three specific themes, i.e. 1) EU private law integration and its effects on
national private laws; 2) property, publicity, priority; and 3) the legitimacy of
postnational private law.
1. EU private law integration and its effects on national private
laws (directed by Aukje van Hoek and Marco Loos) This theme deals with the impact of EU law on the national private laws
of the Member States. It addresses the interaction between national
and EU private law, with regard both to secondary EU law (i.e.
directives and regulations) and primary EU law (i.e. the founding
Treaties), in particular the internal market dimension. The focus will be
mainly, though not exclusively, on the specific areas of consumer law
and private international law.
Specific subjects of research include: the divergent interpretation of
general clauses and open-textured concepts in contract law, caused in
part by the multilingual character of European Union law; the spill-over
effects of specific directives and regulations within Member State law;
the (non-)compliance of national courts with rulings of the CJEU; the
coordination between national private law systems through internal
market law and EU private international law; and the consequences of
harmonization for the systematic character of private law and for the
ideal of codification.
For this research theme, use will be made in the first place of classical
legal analysis and comparative legal research, but also of insights from
(consumer-) behavioural law & economics and law & language. This
theme includes, in particular, the work of Jaap Baaij, Hugh Beale, Diana
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Dankers-Hagenaars, Bram Duivenvoorde, Aukje van Hoek, Jeroen
Kortmann, Candida Leone, Marco Loos, Joasia Luzak, Sacha Tamboer
and Gerard de Vries.
2. Property, publicity, priority (directed by Arthur Salomons) As property law forms no part of the proposed Common European
Sales Law, the debate on the harmonization of that part of patrimonial
law focuses on the question whether incorporation of proprietary
topics at a later stage or in a subsequent or other harmonisation
instrument would be a viable and desirable possibility. Within this
context, we will focus, in particular, on two topics: 1) justification for
proprietary entitlements (acquisition of proprietary entitlements; the
shape and extent of the protection of the titleholder and the
justification of these entitlements and their protection; and patrimonial
responsibility and priority); and 2) apparent entitlement (publicity
systems, clearing and settlement; publicity and priority; and good faith
purchase protection).
The research within this theme will be conducted both from both
doctrinal, comparative and theoretical perspectives. The first subtheme
will include the work of Arthur Salomons, Selma de Groot, and Rolef de
Weijs, the second that of Dewi Hamwijk and Arthur Salomons.
3. The legitimacy of postnational private law (directed by
Martijn Hesselink) This research theme follows up on a fruitful line of research, running
under the 2009-2011 research programme, entitled ‘European contract
law, social justice and democracy’. Moreover, the present theme is also
closely related, substantially and personally, to the joint research
project conducted by the CSECL together with the ACIL and the ACELG
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(directed by Deirdre Curtin, Martijn Hesselink and André Nollkaemper)
on ‘The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking’.
Within this theme, we will explore the political-philosophical
foundations of postnational private law, by analysing the implications
of leading theories of social justice for fundamental questions
concerning the Europeanisation and globalisation of private law. We
will address the normative question of legitimacy from the
perspectives of both law making (democracy) and outcomes (justice).
The question is whether there is anything special about postnational
private law in this respect: do the private and postnational law
dimensions make a difference from a legitimacy perspective?
In particular, we will focus our attention on: the legitimatory potential
of fundamental rights and general principles; the legitimacy of expert
involvement in the shaping of European private law; the geographical
locus where private law should be made (national, European or global);
the normative analysis of clashes between different legal orders and
legitimation (and its limits) through party autonomy (freedom of
contract, choice of law, optional instruments, non-mandatory rules).
In this context, thorough reflection on fundamental questions
concerning methodology plays an important role, not only as an
indispensable preliminary to high quality research, but also as an
object of research, for example in relation to methods of legal
comparison and to the idea of a developing common European legal
method.
This theme includes, in particular, the work of Marija Bartl, Martijn
Hesselink, Josse Klijnsma, Chantal Mak, Marieke Oderkerk and Lyn Tjon
Soei Len.
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3. Research group
The research staff consisted in 2012 of 12,39 full time equivalent (fte), of
which 4,33 fte was occupied by PhD candidates.
Director
Prof. dr Martijn Hesselink
Coordinator Dr Chantal Mak
Management Assistant Yvonne ter Horst LLM
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SENIOR RESEARCHERS
Prof. Hugh Beale
Contract (including European contract law) and commercial law.
Dr Odavia Bueno Díaz
European contract law; franchising contracts; empirical method.
Dr drs Diana Dankers-Hagenaars
The borderline of private and public law; question of codification; contract
law.
Prof. dr Martijn Hesselink
European private law, private law theory and legal methodology.
Prof. dr Aukje van Hoek
Private International Law and Civil Procedure.
Prof. dr Jeroen Kortmann
European tort law.
Prof. dr Marco Loos
Contract law, consumer law and European private law.
Dr Chantal Mak
European contract law, the constitutionalisation of this field of law and the
role of the judiciary in the harmonisation process.
Dr drs Marieke Oderkerk
General theory and methodology of comparative law, international family law.
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Prof. dr Arthur Salomons
Dutch and European property law.
Dr Gerard de Vries
Contract law.
JUNIOR RESEARCHERS
Jaap Baaij LLM
Legal translation, legal interpretation, comparative law and philosophy of
language.
Olga Falgueras del Alamo LLM
Harmonization of Insolvency Law at EU level.
Dr Joasia Luzak
Contract law, consumer law, consumer behaviour and European private law.
Dr Rolef de Weijs
European Property Law and Insolvency Law.
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POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Marija Bartl LLM
Legitimacy in postnational constellations; the ‘market-re-embedding’ role of
private law in the postnational setting, and its link to the democracy in private
law debate; the constitutional aspects of (European) private law, and in
particular the correlation between social justice and democracy in European
Private Law.
Dewi Hamwijk LLM
The principle of publicity with regard to movable tangible assets.
Lyn Tjon Soei Len LLM
Private law theory broadly, and theoretical questions concerning the
relationship between theories of justice and contract (private) law and
questions concerning private autonomy and postnational lawmaking
specifically.
PhD CANDIDATES
Bram Duivenvoorde LLM
The notion of the ‘average consumer’ in European consumer law
Selma de Groot LLM
The interplay between the security transfer and the right of pledge
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Josse Klijnsma LLM
SMEs in European Contract Law: A Rawlsian Perspective
Candida Leone LLM Unfair terms in labour contracts
Rafal Manko LLM
Culture of Private Law in Poland: from Socialism to Europeanisation
Sacha Tamboer LLM
De klachtplicht bij non-conformiteit
EXTERNAL FELLOWS
Prof. dr Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The economic analysis of fundamental areas of the law, such as tort, contract,
property and litigation, as well as the evolution of law and legal institutions,
ancient law, and slavery.
Prof. dr drs Matthias Haentjens
Harmonisation of Securities Law, Custody and Transfer of Securities in
European Private Law.
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Dr Kai Purnhagen LL.M.
The interplay of law and regulation on regulated markets in Europe, in
particluar the role of systematisation within the emerging law of EU risk
regulation.
Dr Bas van Zelst
(Inter)national commercial arbitration, European consumer law, European
private law.
CSECL staff in fte
2012
Professor 2,09
(Senior) University Lecturer 3,30
PhD-student 4,33
Post-doc and researcher 2,67
Total research staff 12,39
Administrative staff 0,83
Total staff 13,22
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4. Organisation
Management Prof. dr Martijn W. Hesselink is Director of the Centre for the Study of
European Contract Law (CSECL). He is assisted by Coordinator dr Chantal Mak
and Management Assistant Yvonne ter Horst LLM.
The specific (three) themes within the research programme are led by the
senior researchers prof. dr Arthur Salomons, prof. dr Marco Loos, prof. dr
Aukje van Hoek and prof. dr Martijn Hesselink.
The CSECL consists of a diverse research group where researchers interact
with other researchers from different backgrounds in terms of nationality,
gender, education et cetera. By creating attractive positions for assistant
professors (more research time), occasionally in combination with the
possibility of a ‘tenure track’ to become associate professor, the CSECL has
managed to attract and retain talented researchers. We leave as much
autonomy as possible to individual researchers in expressing their creativity.
It is for them to develop their own research projects, to distribute their
research time over different activities such as writing more papers, reports for
European institutions, organising conferences, editing volumes et cetera as
long as they meet the publication requirements listed in the research
programme.
The CSECL actively searches for talented PhD students. All PhD positions are
widely advertised in the CSECL’s international networks. PhD students spend
some time at a foreign university (mostly at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and the
MPI in Hamburg). They are stimulated to develop their own research profiles
which are visibly distinct from that of the research leaders.
All researchers, including PhD students, participate in the Ius Commune
research school. Moreover, all researchers are facilitated to excel in their work
by showing confidence in their capacities to be innovative while at the same
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time showing a real interest in their ideas and projects.
Weekly meetings The Centre organises weekly meetings. These are dedicated, in turn, to paper
presentations by invited leading scholars from across the world (the bi-
weekly public ‘CSECL seminars’) and presentation and discussion of work in
progress of one of the group members (‘internal seminars’). In addition,
monthly lunch meetings are dedicated to the discussion of recent
developments in legislation, case law and literature; each topic is introduced
by one of the researchers.
Interaction with teaching The Master’s programme in European Private Law is directed and co-
ordinated and, for the most part, taught by members of our research group.
Students in that programme are invited to participate in CSECL seminars,
conferences, and, where possible, research.
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5. Joint research projects & collaborations
Several specific research projects by members of the CSECL research group
are carried out within the framework of one or more international
collaborations. The aim is to intensify and extend international collaboration
and exchange.
Advising the European Commission and Parliament The CSECL advises the European Commission and Parliament, which is
policy oriented research with an important societal impact:
EC Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of European
Contract Law
Prof. dr Martijn W. Hesselink and prof. dr Hugh Beale were appointed by
the European Commission as members of an Expert Group on a Common
Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law. The group's task
was to assist the Commission in the preparation of a proposal for a
Common Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law,
including consumer and business contract law, and in particular in:
selecting those parts of the Draft Common Frame of Reference which are
of direct or indirect relevance to contract law; and restructuring, revising
and supplementing the selected contents of the Draft Common Frame of
Reference, taking also into consideration other research work conducted
in this area as well as the Union acquis.
On 3 May 2011, after one year's work, the Expert Group published its
report ‘A European contract law for consumers and businesses:
Publication of the results of the feasibility study carried out by the Expert
Group on European contract law for stakeholders' and legal practitioners'
feedback’ which became the basis for the European Commission's
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proposal, published a few months later, for a regulation on Common
European Sales Law.
European Parliament framework contract European contract law, including
consumer law
In April 2010 the CSECL was assigned a tender on ‘European contract law,
including consumer law’, funded by the European Parliament. Members of
the research group provide their expertise on European contract law to
the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament in a form of
standard briefing notes and ad hoc briefing papers. This should
strengthen the Committee’s knowledge on the subject and enable her to
respond to proposals made by the European Commission and provide a
solid basis for some of the Committee’s own initiatives. The framework
contract will run until 31 December 2014.
In 2012 two ad hoc briefing papers were written for the European
Parliament. One paper on Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the
supply of digital content, by Prof. Marco Loos and Dr Chantal Mak and the
other on Unfair Contract terms in B2C Contracts by Prof. Martijn
Hesselink and Prof. Marco Loos. During the Workshop ‘Common European
Sales Law’ organized by the European Parliament the papers were
presented respectively on 19 June and 31 May.
The Common Core of European private Law (‘Trento Project’) The aim of this project is to establish common rules with respect to
certain fields of private law of the different members of the European
Union, although their methods of research are totally different.
CSECL is involved in the following initiatives:
Common Core: Interpretation of Commercial Contracts
In 2010 Jaap Baaij initiated and launched a new comparative legal study
for the Common Core of European Private Law. It is the most
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comprehensive comparative study on interpretation methods to date. In
2011 twenty-four legal scholars from fifteen European legal systems and
South-Africa joined as ‘national reporters’. In 2011 Jaap and his co-editors,
Laura Macgregor and David Cabbrelli, from the University of Edinburgh,
meticulously crafted a Questionnaire on the basis of which the national
reporters drafted their draft reports. These reports will be reviewed and
revised in 2012, after which the editors will commence their comparative
analyses. The full manuscript is expected to be finalized late 2013.
Common Core: Good Morals
In 2012, Chantal Mak together with Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi and Zeeshan
Mansoor (Groningen Centre for Law and Governance) initiated a new
comparative legal study for the Common Core project on the topic of ‘good
morals’. A questionnaire was drafted and set out among reporters in
nearly all EU Member States. The national reporters will send in their
answers mid-2013 and finalisation of the study is foreseen to take place in
2014.
European Law Institute The European Law Institute, founded in June 2011 as an entirely
independent organisation, aims to improve the quality of European law,
understood in the broadest sense. It seeks to initiate, conduct and
facilitate research, to make recommendations, and to provide practical
guidance in the field of European legal development.
Several members of the CSECL have become members of the European
Law Institute, after the conclusion of the Co-PECL project.
The Study Group on Social Justice in European Private Law Within the Social Justice Group CSECL researchers co-operate with
researchers of the Paris I, the London School of Economics, the European
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University Institute (Florence), the University of Helsinki, ZERP (Bremen),
the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and the University of Catania. This
group conducts common research of social justice and regulatory
legitimacy within the European Contract Law.
The network on Private Law Theory The PLT initiative aims to constitute a network of scholars reflecting the
theoretical foundations and future developments of private law. The idea
was born spontaneously in 2009 among a transnational group of scholars.
PLT will build a forum for cross-cultural brainstorming what private law
could mean in the 21st century. PLT embraces different theoretical
backgrounds (liberal theory, social justice theory, deliberative theory,
systems theory, economic analysis, critical theory, deconstruction, etc.)
and different fields of law (contract law, property law, comparative law,
competition law, corporate law, IP law, etc.).
The Ius Commune Research School The CSECL cooperates with the Faculties of Law of the University of
Utrecht, the University of Maastricht, the Catholic University Leuven
(Belgium) and with individual researchers of the University Stellenbosch
(South Africa), the University of Edinburg (Scotland), the Free University
in Amsterdam, Tilburg University and the Erasmus University Rotterdam.
Together with the University of Maastricht - Prof. Jan Smits – the CSECL
conducted the project National resistance against Europeanisation of
private law: a multi-disciplinary investigation into the roles of nationalist
ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers. The project was funded
by the Hague Institute for the Internalisation of law (HiiL), sponsored by
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). It started in
August 2008 and explored the resistance that exists against European
integration in the field of private law by looking at two reasons for such
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resistance: nationalist ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers.
It thus proposes an interdisciplinary approach in trying to answer one of
the most fundamental questions about unification of (private) law: what
explains national resistance against unification? In particular, this project
focuses on the role of two particular factors which can explain national
resistance, i.e. nationalist ideology (expressed in the guise of cultural and
economic arguments) and the behaviour of the actors to be affected by
legal unification. The answer to this question provides fundamental
insights into the best way in which an effective European integration of
law is to be achieved and what the role of the European and national
legislator in this respect should be.
PhD student Guido Comparato joined the CSECL to write a thesis about
the subject; Gary Low was a PhD student at the Maastricht team.
Guido finished his manuscript in September 2011 and then took up a post-
doc position in a research project on European private law of prof. Hans
Micklitz (European University Institute, Fiesole). Guido’s manuscript was
approved by his supervisors at the end of 2011. The PhD defense
successfully took place on 23 October 2012.
CSECL is partner of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of
European Law and Polity Research.
Furthermore, there are numerous international collaborations on an
individual basis with scholars from many leading European and American
universities including Harvard, EUI, LSE, Oxford and Sciences Po.
Locally, the CSECL collaborates with other academics outside the Faculty of
Law, especially with the Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics (ACLE),
through joint research projects and seminars.
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Inside the Faculty CSECL participates in the Research Priority Area (RPA)
European Private and Public Law, launched formally in 2009. The RPA includes
three research groups, each with their own specific research programmes and
research centres (the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance
(ACELG), the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) and the Centre for the
Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)). Although there are no common
research activities planned for the area as a whole, there have been important
collaborations between certain researchers from different groups. The most
prominent example is the project The Architecture of Post-National
Rulemaking: Views from Public International Law, European Public Law and
European Private Law that is directed by Deirdre Curtin (ACELG) and Martijn
Hesselink (CSECL) together with André Nollkaemper (Public International
Law) and which started on 1 January 2010. The project aims to provide new
reflections and insights into the discussion on the legitimacy of post-national
rulemaking starting from three distinct but in this project uniquely combined
legal perspectives. The main objective is to relate perspectives from public
international law, European public law and European private law on post-
national rulemaking and to examine through a new lens any legitimacy
concerns that may arise from the new arrangements. The project will further
develop a normative framework for the analysis of post-national rulemaking
applicable across all three areas. This will require theoretical work on the
concepts of rulemaking and legitimacy starting from the perspectives of the
three different areas of law.
After some time having been spent on reconciling concepts and defining
future activities, the project in 2011 experienced a powerful official start sign
with the organisation of a workshop entitled ‘Framing and Taming
Postnational Rulemaking. Views from Public International Law, European
Public Law and European Private Law’. The event, besides showing that the
project’s theme attracts intense interest, resulted in the formulation of a clear
mission statement, available on the project website that was also launched in
2011. In parallel with the move from the organisational to the content
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exemplified by the workshop, the regular project meetings focussed on the
discussion of project member’s papers and resulted in the publication of
working papers and regular papers.
Another successful international workshop took place in September 2012 and
brought together many distinguished legal scholars from different countries
and legal backgrounds to discuss ‘Postnational Rulemaking between Authority
and Autonomy’. Furthermore, an Architecture Dialogues series was set up, in
which leading scholars in the field are invited to enter into a dialogue with the
project members and reflect on issues pertaining to the project's theme. The
first installments of the Dialogues series took place in the second half of 2012
and attracted a diverse audience of scholars with expertise in international,
European and private law. The project meetings continued to provide space
for the discussion of project members’ papers.
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6. Teaching
Private law in Europe has undergone rapid transformation over the last two
decades. From being a branch of law that was hardly affected by European
Community (EC) legislation, it has become the object of a multitude of
harmonisation measures, to the point that the idea of a European civil code is
now a priority on the political agenda. This development has given rise to a
growing demand within the legal profession, within national and EC
institutions and in academic research for lawyers with a thorough
understanding of both existing European private law and the ongoing
Europeanisation process and its dynamics.
The Master's programme in European Private Law gives students a thorough
understanding of this developing multilevel system of private law in Europe.
Relevant insights from other disciplines such as Economics and Political
Science are integrated into the discussion of legal questions, thereby
broadening and deepening the debate.
The Master’s programme in European Private Law is directed and co-
ordinated and, for the most part, taught by members of our research group.
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7. PhD research
The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law supervises PhD students
and so-called JUDOOZ. PhD students are appointed during three years and
they have no teaching obligation, unless this is relevant to their research.
JUDOOZ are Junior researchers who are appointed during six years and who
teach 40% and conduct PhD research 60% of their appointment.
PhD students and JUDOOZ are supervised by a supervisor and co-supervisor.
They receive training offered by the Ius Commune research school and/or the
Faculty of Law. In addition they attend relevant conferences and the CSECL
seminars.
The CSECL actively searches for talented PhD students. All PhD positions are
widely advertised in the CSECL’s international networks. PhD students usually
spend some time at a foreign university (mostly at Harvard, Columbia, NYU
and the MPI in Hamburg). They are stimulated to develop their own research
profiles which are visibly distinct from that of the research leaders.
On 23 October 2012 at 14:00 Guido Comparato defended his PhD thesis
Nationalism and Private Law in Europe in the Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds
Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam. Supervisor: Prof. dr M.W. Hesselink; Co-
supervisor: Dr C. Mak.
In 2012 the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law supervised 9 PhD
students, of whom 2 are JUDOOZ (Baaij and Tamboer). 2 PhD students whose
PhD appointment has expired (De Groot and Manko) are working on their
thesis and it is expected that they will finish it soon.
During the year 3 PhD appointments were turned into respectively 1
University Lecturer appointment (Baaij), and 2 post-doctoral appointments
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(Hamwijk and Tjon Soei Len). Also their theses are expected to be finished
soon.
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8. Publications
Scientific excellence The research group aims to play a leading role in the academic debate on
European contract law. In its first six years, the research group has
obtained a good international reputation in the field. The outcome of the
national research assessment exercise was satisfactory (score 4.75 out of
5.00). The aim for the next three years is to further improve both our
international reputation and our score in the national research assessment
exercise. In other words, the aim is scientific excellence. For that purpose,
we need to set ourselves ambitious targets.
In 2011, the Faculty adopted a Model for academic staff performance
criteria, which contains ‘standard requirements’. The standard
requirement is 90 points per 0.4 FTE every three years. The breakdown of
points allocated in the model is as follows:
• 30 points for a high-impact publication (indication; fewer points,
or in exceptional cases more, may be allocated depending on the
publication)
• 20 points for a ‘weighty’ publication
• 10 for a ‘lighter’ publication
• 60 points for monographs of 250 or more pages in refereed
funds
• 30 points for editing a book in a refereed fund
• 1-5 points for publication in a professional journal (depending
on the importance and length of the publication).
These are minimum requirements, which are mostly of a quantitative
nature. In light of its ambitions and its status as a university ‘centre of
excellence’ the CSECL adopts one additional requirement, which is related
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to the quality of our output: per 0.4 FTE each researcher has to publish two
‘high-impact publications’ (‘A publications’) every three years. In other
words, any number of ‘weighty’ or ‘lighter’ publications - much appreciated
as they may be as extra research output - cannot compensate for the
absence of two ‘high impact’ publications every three years. Rather than
stimulating the production of larger quantities of publications of modest
scientific impact, the CSECL thus underlines its scholarly ambitions by
striving for publications of the highest international quality and impact.
We define a ‘high-impact’ or ‘A’ publication as a publication in one of the
leading international journals in the field of European contract law. These
include the following ones:
American Journal of Comparative Law
Common Market Law Review
European Law Journal
European Review of Contract Law
European Review of Private Law
European Property Law Journal
Journal of Consumer Policy
Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht
/ The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law
Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht
Of course, also a publication in one of the top general American law
journals counts as an ‘A’ publication. Similarly, an interdisciplinary
publication in one of the leading journals in the related discipline counts as
an ‘A’ publication as well. A publication in a high-quality edited volume
published, after peer review, by Cambridge University Press, Oxford
University Press, Hart Publishing or an international publisher of equal
repute, also counts as an ‘A’ publication for the purposes of the minimum
requirement, but only once every three years. In other words, even a
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researcher that publishes in high-quality edited volumes has to publish in
an A journal at least once every three years.
Pursuant to the Faculty model, the quantitative production requirement for
junior researchers is lower, i.e. 60 points per 0.4 FTE every three years,
because they have no existing body of research to build upon. We translate
this into a requirement for junior researchers during their first three years
after having obtained their PhD, be it as a post-doctoral researcher or as an
assistant professor (UD), to publish one ‘A’ publication every three years
per 0.4 FTE.
For PhD candidates, our ambition is expressed in the requirement for them
to complete their doctoral theses within the agreed three year term. We do
not require any other publications from them. Although we certainly
stimulate them to pre-publish some of their (preliminary) findings, with a
view to ‘claiming’ their subject (visibility) and training their writing skills
(style, focus et cetera), the ultimate decision is with the PhD candidates
together with their supervisors.
Individual choice, creativity and ownership Research programmes should stimulate creativity, certainly not stifle it by
being too detailed or rigid. Therefore, we leave as much autonomy as
possible to individual researchers in expressing their creativity. It is for
them to develop their own research projects, to distribute their research
time over different activities such as writing more papers, reports for
European institutions, organising conferences, editing volumes et cetera.
As long as they meet the general faculty minimum publication
requirements and remain within the research theme, the only further
limitation to their choices is that they should have two ‘A’ publications
every three years.
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There is another dimension to this respect for and belief in the autonomy
of individual researchers. By adhering to the highest international
standards we avoid the risk of locking talented researchers into
idiosyncratic local preferences. Thus, their research achievements remain
‘portable’ in the sense that they will be easily acknowledged anywhere
should the researchers wish to pursue their careers elsewhere.
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Research output CSECL 2012 2012 Scientific publications
Book refereed 3
Book non-refereed 2
PhD-theses 1
Article refereed 26
Article non-refereed 5
Book chapter refereed 8
Book chapter non-refereed 22
Book editorship 8
External report 3
TOTAL 78
Professional publications Book 0
Article in journal 6
Book chapter 9
Book editorship 1
Annotation 16
Publication aimed at the general public 2
TOTAL 34
Other research output Presentations and lectures 43
Inaugural lectures and PHD-defenses 2
Editorships 12
Memberships 24
PhD-oppositions / supervisions 2
Organisation / chairships conferences 4
Other 26
TOTAL 113
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8.1 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
8.1.1 Books
A. Refereed
Beale, H.
- Mistake and Non-disclosure of Facts: Models for English Contract Law,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145 p.
- (together with M. Bridge, L. Gullifer and E. Lomnicka), The Law of Security
and Title-based Financing, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, lxiv +
821 p.
Bueno Díaz, O.
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European
law, edited by Study Group on a European Civil Code [Principles of
European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier European law publishers /
Oxford University Press, 549 p.
Loos, M.B.M.
- (together with O. Bueno Díaz) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European
law, edited by Study Group on a European Civil Code [Principles of
European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier European law publishers /
Oxford University Press, 549 p.
B. Non-refereed
Loos, M.B.M.
- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der
Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European
Framework [Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law
International, XVII + 284 p.
Mak, C.
- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, L. Pessers & B. van
der Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European
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Framework [Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law
International, XVII + 284 p.
Salomons, A.F.
- (tezamen met I.C. van der Vlies) Kunst, recht en beleid. - 2e duk., Den Haag:
Boom Juridische uitgevers, 290 p.
8.1.2 PhD-theses
Luzak, J.A.
- The service provider's duty to warn about defects caused by third parties. A
case study on the precontractual and contractual duty to warn in English,
German and Dutch law and in the Draft Common Frame of Reference, Den
Haag: Stichting Instituut voor Bouwrecht, 284 p.
8.1.3 Articles
A. International refereed
Comparato, C.
- The Long Shadow of the Volksgeist. Or: the Nationalist Dimension in
European Private Law Discourse, European Review of Contract Law (8), pp.
245-259.
Hamwijk, D.J.Y.
- The puzzling concepts of publicity and possession: to the heart of property
law, European Property Law Journal 1(2), pp. 299-316.
Hesselink, M.W.
- How to opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief comments on the
Commission's proposal for a regulation, European Review of Private Law
20(1), pp. 195-212.
- The Case for a common European Sales Law in an Age of rising
Nationalism, European Review of Contract Law 8(3), pp. 342-366.
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Hoek, A.A.H.
- CJEU- Pammer and Alpenhof – Grand Chamber 7 December 2012, joined
cases 585/08 and 144/09, not yet published, European Review of Contract
Law ( 1), pp. 93-107.
Kortmann, J.S.
- (together with C.R.A. Swaak) Private Antitrust Enforcement - Status Quo in
the Netherlands, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht , 81974.
Loos, M.B.M.
- Standard contract terms regulation in the proposal for a common
European sales law, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (4), pp. 776-
796.
Mak, C.
- Europe-building through private law. Lessons from constitutional theory,
European Review of Contract Law (3), pp. 326-341.
- Hedgehogs in Luxembourg? A Dworkinian Reading of the CJEU's Case Law
on Principles of Private Law and Some Doubts of the Fox, European Review
of Private Law 20(2), pp. 323-345.
Purnhagen, K.P.
- Principles of European Private Or Civil Law? – A Reminder of the
Symbiotic Relationship between the ECJ and the DCFR in a Pluralistic
European Private Law, European Law Journal 18 (6), pp. 844-867.
- Kein Rausch für Ausländer und andere europarechtliche Probleme, ius.full
(2/12), pp. 42-53.
- (together with Dennis-Jonathan Mann) The Nature of Union Citizenship
Between Autonomy and Dependency on (Member) State Citizenship - A
Comparative Analysis of the Rottmann Ruling, or: how to Avoid a
European Dred Scott Decision?, Wisconsin International Law Journal 29(3),
pp. 484-533.
Weijs, R.J. de
- (together with E.J.R. Verwey, C. Bärenz & R.M.A. Connell) Financing in
distress against security from an English, German and Dutch perspective:
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a walk in the park or in a mine field?, International Insolvency Law Review,
21(1), pp. 21-44.
- Harmonisation of European Insolvency Law and the need to tackle two
common problems: common pool and anticommons, International
Insolvency Review (21), pp. 67-83.
Zelst, B. van
- The proposed new Dutch Arbitration Act, International Arbitration Law
Review 18(3), pp. 75-80.
B. International non-refereed
Baaij, C.J.W.
- The EU policy on Institutional Multilingualism: Between Principles and
Practicality, Electronic Journal for Language & Law 1(1), at
http://www.languageandlaw.de
C. National refereed
Hoek, A.A.H.
- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law,
Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht (3), pp. 362-370.
- eDate advertising: de Europese oplossing voor het probleem van ‘libel
tourism’?, Ars Aequi (september), pp. 653-664.
- Het toepasselijk recht op arbeidsovereenkomsten in de zeevaart - Een
commentaar op HvJ EU 15 december 2011, zaak C-384/10,
Voogsgeerd/Navimer, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (7), pp.
245-251.
- De werkingssfeer van het BBA na het NUON arrest van de Hoge Raad –
Deel I: het arrest in context, Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid (12), pp. 5-9.
Kortmann, J.S.
- Rechters, advocaten en hookers: amuse, Ars Aequi 61(5), pp. 336-338.
Loos, M.B.M.
- De algemene voorwaarden-regeling in het voorstel voor een
Gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht: een vergelijking met het
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Nederlandse recht, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht (5), pp.
166-175.
- Rechtsgevolgen van onredelijk bezwarende bedingen in algemene
voorwaarden, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie
(6940), pp. 561-562.
- De totstandkoming en bedenktijdregeling van op afstand gesloten
energieleveringsovereenkomsten, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht &
Handelspraktijken (1), pp. 6-10.
Salomons, A.F.
- Nogmaals art. 3:105 BW: is een verbergende dief bezitter, houder of
‘gebrekkig bezitter’?, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie
(6921), pp. 199-205.
Weijs, R.J. de
- (tezamen met E.J.M. van Rijckevorsel-Teeuwen) Actio Pauliana en
notariële aansprakelijkheid; de notaris en het rechtsverkeer gezamenlijk
in het nauw, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie, pp. 215-
226.
Zelst, B. van
- Artikel 10:154 BW: een nieuwe benadering bij de bepaling van het recht
toepasselijk op de overeenkomst tot arbitrage?, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor
Burgerlijk Recht (18), pp. 115-120.
D. National non-refereed
Baaij, C.J.W.
- A Case for Formal Equivalence in EU Translation, Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn
Themis 6, pp. 278-287.
Kortmann, J.S.
- (tezamen met S. Tuinenga) Kroniek Civiele Rechtspraak
mededingingsrecht 2011, Markt en Mededinging 15(2), pp. 55-65.
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Vries, G.J.P.
- Het voorstel van de Europese Commissie voor een verordening
betreffende een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht, SEW, Tijdschrift
voor Europees en economisch recht 60(12), pp. 502-507.
Zelst, B. van - De gevolgen van vernietiging voor de overeenkomst tot arbitrage en de
herziening van artikel 1067 Rv., Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage (3).
8.1.4 Book chapters
A. International refereed
Baaij, C.J.W.
- Fifty Years of Multilingual Interpretation in the EU, in: L.M. Solan & P.M.
Tiersma (eds.), Oxford Handbook for Language and Law, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp. 217-231.
Beale, H.
- The draft academic common frame of reference and the ‘toolbox’, in: M.
Andenas and C.B. Andersen (eds.), Theory and Practice of Harmonisation,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 115-128.
Hoek, A.A.H.
- (together with J. Kocken) The Netherlands, in: C. Esplugues Mota, J. L.
Iglesias & G. Palao (eds.), Civil and Commercial Mediation in Europe:
Volume 1, Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 491-513.
- (together with M. Houwerzijl) ‘Posting’ and ‘posted workers’ – The need
for clear definitions of two key concepts of the Posting of Workers
Directive, in: C. Barnard & M. Gehring with I. Solanke (eds.), Cambridge
Yearbook of European Legal Studies [Volume 14 2011-2012], Oxford: Hart
Publishing, pp. 419-452.
Manko, R.
- Quality of Legislation Following a Transition from Really Existing
Socialism to Capitalism: a Case Study of General Clauses in Polish Private
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Law, in: J. Rozenfelds (ed.), The Quality of Legal Acts and Its Importance in
Contemporary Legal Space, Riga: University of Latvia Press, pp. 540-561.
- Resistance towards the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland: the interaction
between the consumer acquis and a post-socialist legal culture, in: M.
Kenny & J. Devenney (eds.), European Consumer Protection: Theory and
Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 412-434.
Purnhagen, K.P.
- (together with H. Micklitz & G. Spindler) Analysis of the Legal System of
Consumer Protection Rules in E-Commerce in Germany and the EU, in:
K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Comparative
Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.
Beck/Hart/Nomos.
- Analysis of the Surveillance System of Consumer Protection Rules in E-
Commerce, in: K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A
Comparative Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.
Beck/Hart/Nomos.
B. International non refereed
Baaij, C.J.W.
- The Significance of Legal Translation for Legal Harmonization, in: C.J.W.
Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen
a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 1-24.
- Conclusions, in: C.J.W. Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal
Harmonization, Alphen a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 203-214.
Beale, H.
- The PECL and Consumer Remedies under the CESL, in: M.J. Bonell, M-L.
Holle & P.A. Nielsen (eds.), Liber Amicorum Ole Lando, Copenhagen: DJØF,
pp. 45-58.
Bueno Díaz, O.
- Commercial agency, franchise and distributorship in the DCFR, in: E.
Terryn, V. Sagaert & M. Storme (eds.), The Draft Common Frame of
Reference: national and comparative perspectives (Ius Commune:
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European and Comparative Law Series, volume 99), Antwerp/Oxford:
Intersentia, pp. 387-415.
Groot, S. de
- Three questions in relation to the scope of book IX DCFR, in: S. van Erp,
A.F. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property
Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers, pp. 137-151.
Haentjens, M.
- Between property law and contract law: the case of securities, in: S. van
Erp, A. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The future of European property
law, Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, pp. 165-181.
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law, in:
N. Lavranos, R. Kok et al (eds.), Hague Yearbook of international law
[Volume 24 2011], Leiden׀Boston: Martinus Nijhof Publishers, pp. 25-47.
Loos, M.B.M.
- Scope and application of the Optional Instrument, in: D. Voinot, J. Sénéchal
(eds.), Vers un droit européen des contrats spéciaux /Towards a European
Law of Specific Contracts, Gent: Larcier, pp. 117-150.
- Sales law in the DCFR, in: V. Sagaert, M. E. Storme, E. Terryn (eds.), The
DCFR: a national and comparative perspective,
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 453-489.
- (together with I. Samoy) Introduction, in: I. Samoy & M.B.M. Loos (eds.),
Linked contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 1-7.
- (together with A.L.M. Keirse) The Optional Instrument and the Consumer
Rights Directive: alternative ways to a new ius commune in contract law,
in: A.L.M. Keirse & M.B.M. Loos (eds.), Alternative ways to Ius commune.
The Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 1-20.
- Conformity and Non-conformity of Digital Content, in: N. Helberger, L.
Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der Sloot (eds.), Digital
Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European Framework
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[Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp.
81-111.
Luzak, J.A.
- Linked contracts and the construction sector: a builder's contractual
obligation to warn the client about a risk that might emerge from a
contract between the client and the designer, in: M.B.M. Loos & I. Samoy
(eds.), Linked Contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, 2012, pp. 55-78.
Mak, C.
- Fundamental rights and digital content contracts, in: N. Helberger, L.
Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der Sloot (eds.), Digital
Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European Framework
[Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp.
131-147.
Manko, R.
- The Institutional Implications of the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland, in:
J.W. Rutgers (ed.), European Contract Law and the Welfare State,
Groningen: Europa Law Publishers, pp. 141-172.
Tjon Soei Len,L.K.L
- European Contract Law and the Capabilities Approach: On Distributive
Responsibility for Contract Law, in: N. Weidtmann, Y.M. Hölzchen, B. Hawa
(eds.), The Capability Approach on Social Order, Münster: LIT Verlag, pp.
132-148.
Zelst, B. van
- (together with M.L.S. Kalff) Dutch chapter on international insolvency, in:
Cross-Border Insolvency II. A guide to recognition and enforcement, London
(UK): INSOL International, pp. 179-182.
C. National refereed
-
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D. National non-refereed
Baaij, C.J.W.
- Rechtsvinding en taalrelativisme, in: G. Drosterij, red., Behulpzaam bij het
creëren van orde en vrede (niet gerechtigheid): opstellen voor Liesbeth
Huppes-Cluysenaer, eigen uitgave redacteur, pp. 56-64.
Kortmann, J.S.
- Meervoudige causaliteit: over alternativiteit bij daders én benadeelden, in
Causaliteitsperikelen, in: Preadvies voor de Vereniging voor
Aansprakelijkheids- en Schadevergoedingsrecht (VASR), Deventer: Kluwer,
pp. 31-61.
Loos, M.B.M.
- (tezamen met H.N. Schelhaas) Het Weens Koopverdrag en het
Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht: de positie van de commerciële
koper, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.
Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel
ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.
Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 83-97.
Oderkerk, A.E.
- (tezamen met L.M. Coenraad,) Internationale echtscheiding in Nederland
1964-2012, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk,
J.A. Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar.
Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de
Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische
uitgevers, pp. 83-97.
Weijs, R.J. de
- Harmonisatie versus competitie van insolventierecht en minimum
veiligheidsvoorschriften voor het Engelse insolventiebordeel, in: A.A.H.
van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier & J.W.
Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid
van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-
2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 189-201.
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8.1.5 Book editorships
Baaij, C.J.W.
- The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen a/d
Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 256 p.
Beale, H.
- Chitty on Contracts, 31st ed., Volume 1 - General Principles and Volume 2 -
Specific Contracts, London: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd. (General editor and
responsible for chapters 5-7, 26 and part of 43).
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- (tezamen met R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier & J.W.
Rutgers, Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van het
vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-2012),
Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.
Loos, M.B.M.
- (together with A.L.M. Keirse), Alternative ways to Ius commune. The
Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, 268 p.
- (together with I. Samoy), Linked contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum
series, 103], Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, xii+166 p.
- (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier &
J.W. Rutgers), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid
van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-
2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.
- (tezamen met A.L.M. Keirse, S.D. Lindenbergh & A.J. Verheij), Beter
Burgerlijk Recht, Deventer: Kluwer, 200 p.
Oderkerk, A.E.
- (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, J.A. Pontier &
J.W. Rutgers, Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van
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het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-
2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.
Purnhagen, K.P.
- E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Sino-German Comparative Analysis,
München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H. Beck/Hart/Nomos, 259 p.
Salomons, A.F.
- (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans), The Future of European
Property Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers.
8.1.6 External reports
Hesselink, M.W.
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad hoc
briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs,
May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.
Loos, M.B.M.
- (together with M.W. Hesselink) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad
hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal
Affairs, May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.
- (together with C. Mak) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the
supply of digital content, ad hoc briefing paper for the European
Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, 25 p.
- (together with J.A. Luzak) Report on the transposition of consumer law
Directives in the Netherlands, for the EC Consumer Law Compendium,
European Commission’s project, March 2012 (http://www.eu-consumer-
law.org/).
Luzak, J.A.
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Report on the transposition of consumer law
Directives in the Netherlands, for the EC Consumer Law Compendium,
European Commission’s project, March 2012 (http://www.eu-consumer-
law.org/).
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Mak, C.
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the
supply of digital content, ad hoc briefing paper for the European
Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, Brussels:
European Parliament, 25 p.
8.2 PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS
8.2.1 Books
-
8.2.2 Articles
A. International
Mak, C.
- Book review of H.-W. Micklitz (ed.), The Many Concepts of Social Justice in
European Private Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 488
p., Yearbook of European Law, pp. 516-523.
- Book review of A. Gatto, Multi-national Enterprises and Human Rights.
Obligations under EU Law and International Law (PhD thesis EUI,
Florence), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 352 p., Common
Market Law Review 49 (5), pp. 1799-1801.
Zelst, B. van
- Book review of C. Twigg-Flesner (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to
European Union Private law, Oxford: Cambridge University Press (2010),
380 p., European Law Journal 18 (2), pp. 331-332.
B. National
Loos, M.B.M.
- Van de redactie, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken
(1), p. 1.
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Luzak, J.A.
- The constructor’s duties to warn about design failures in the DCFR from a
Dutch perspective, Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht (197) , pp. 1097-1107.
Weijs, R.J. de
- Commentaar artikel 42 - 51 Faillissementswet, Groene Kluwer (losbladig),
125 p.
8.2.3 Book chapters
A. International
Loos, M.B.M.
- Cost and fee allocation in the Netherlands, in: M. Reimann (ed.), Cost and
fee allocation in civil procedure [Ius Gentium, 11],
Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, pp. 219-227.
- Preface to this volume, in: M.B.M. Loos & O. Bueno Díaz, Mandate
Contracts, Principles of European law, edited by Study Group on a European
Civil Code [Principles of European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier
European law publishers / Oxford University Press, p. XII.
Salomons, A.F.
- (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans) Preface, in: S. van Erp, A.F.
Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property Law,
Munich: sellier european law publishers, pp. v-vi.
B. National
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- Verordening (EG) Nr. 593/2008 inzake het recht dat van toepassing is op
verbintenissen uit overeenkomst (Rome I) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der
Heijden, J.M. van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar
Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 873-895.
- Verdrag inzake het recht dat van toepassing is verbintenissen uit
overeenkomst (EVO) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M. van Slooten
& E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer,
pp. 895-898.
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- Verordening (EG) Nr. 44/2001 betreffende de rechterlijke bevoegdheid,
de erkenning en de tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in burgerlijke en
handelszaken (EEX-Verordening) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M.
van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht,
Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 915-935.
Loos, M.B.M.
- Overeenkomsten tot levering van digitale inhoud, in: A.L.M. Keirse, S.D.
Lindenbergh, M.B.M. Loos & A.J. Verheij (eds.), Beter Burgerlijk Recht,
Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 169-177.
Oderkerk, A.E.
- Ontbinding van het huwelijk, in: Th.M. de Boer & F. Ibili (eds.), Nederlands
internationaal personen- en familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 133-151.
- Verordening (EG) Nr. 2201/2003 betreffende de bevoegdheid en de
erkenning en tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in huwelijkszaken en
inzake de ouderlijke verantwoordelijkheid, en tot intrekking van
verordening (EG) nr. 1347/2000 (Brussel II bis)(Uittreksel), Tekst en
Commentaar Personen- en Familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer 2012, pp. 2453-
2555.
8.2.4 Book editorships
Dankers-Hagenaars, D.L.M.T.
- (tezamen met M.B.M. Loos) Jurisprudentie aansprakelijkheidsrecht &
contractenrecht 2012/2013 (Boom jurisprudentie en documentatie), Den
Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 547 p.
Loos, M.B.M.
- (tezamen met D.L.M.T. Dankers-Hagenaars) Jurisprudentie
aansprakelijkheidsrecht & contractenrecht 2012/2013 [Boom
jurisprudentie en documentatie], Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers,
547 p.
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8.2.5 Annotations
Dankers-Hagenaars, D.L.M.T.
- Noot bij Rechtbank Arnhem (28-09-2011), Rechtspraak
Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (1), 4, pp. 21-23.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (16-12-2011), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (3), 26, pp. 273-275.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (23-12-2011), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (4), 31, pp. 305-307.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (17-02-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (5), 47, pp. 503-505.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (24-02-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (6), 52, pp. 537-539.
- Noot bij de Hoge Raad (25-05-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (10), 82, pp. 804-806.
- Noot bij Rechtbank Amsterdam (13-06-2012), Rechtspraak
Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (11), 97, pp. 1017-1018.
- Noot bij Rechtbank ‘s Gravenhage. (08-13- 2012), Rechtspraak
Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (12), 107, pp. 1103-1105.
Loos, M.B.M.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (09-12-2011), (Schriftelijkheidsvereiste bij de koop
van woningen door particulieren, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk
Recht (4), pp. 131-136.
- Noot bij Hof Leeuwarden (21-02-2012), (LJN BV6422: X/Apart Meubel- en
Interieurbouw), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken
(4), nr. 20, pp. 175-177.
- Noot bij Rechtbank Utrecht (11-04-2012), Tijdschrift voor
Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken (5), pp. 230-232.
- Noot bij Hof van Justitie (14-06-2012), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht
& Handelspraktijken (6), pp. 285-290.
Luzak, J.A.
- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union, (Who should bear the
risk of the removal of the non-conforming goods? Joined cases C-65/09
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and C-87/09 (Weber and Putz)), Zeitschrift für Europäisches
Unternehmens- und Verbraucherrecht (1), pp. 35-40.
- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union (15-03-2012), (Unfair
commercial practice ≠ unfair contract term ≠ void contract), Ars Aequi (6),
pp. 428-432.
- Noot bij Hof van Justitie, (Wie draagt het risico van verwijdering van een
non-conform goed? Bespreking van de uitspraken van het Hof van Justitie:
nr. C-65/09 (Weber) en nr. C-87/09 (Putz)), Tijdschrift voor
Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken (1), pp. 25-28.
Zelst, B. van
- Noot bij Raad van Arbitrage voor de Bouw (30-11-2011), (Overeenkomst
tot arbitrage in algemene voorwaarden), nr. 71.614, Tijdschrift voor
Bouwrecht (95).
8.2.6 Articles in newspaper
Tjon Soei Len, L.K.L.
- Prostituee Josje is niet anders dan Remy Bonjasky en verdient hetzelfde
respect, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 26 October 2012 [Op-ed on political liberalism
and the criminalization of prostitution].
- Als Apple consument is het nu toch wat ongemakkelijk naar je bureaublad
kijken, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 13 February 2012 [Op-ed on the immorality
and invalidity of contracts for goods made in sweatshops.].
8.3 PUBLICATIONS PER STAFF MEMBER
Baaij, C.J.W. (University Lecturer; 0,50 fte)
- The Significance of Legal Translation for Legal Harmonization, in: C.J.W.
Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen
a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 1-24.
- Conclusions, in: C.J.W. Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal
Harmonization, Alphen a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 203-214.
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- Rechtsvinding en taalrelativisme, in: G. Drosterij, red., Behulpzaam bij het
creëren van orde en vrede (niet gerechtigheid): opstellen voor Liesbeth
Huppes-Cluysenaer, eigen uitgave redacteur, pp. 56-64.
- The EU policy on Institutional Multilingualism: Between Principles and
Practicality, Language & Law 1(1), at http://www.languageandlaw.de
- A Case for Formal Equivalence in EU Translation, Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn
Themis 6, pp. 278-287.
- Fifty Years of Multilingual Interpretation in the EU, in: L.M. Solan & P.M.
Tiersma (eds.), Oxford Handbook for Language and Law, Oxford: Oxford
University Press, pp. 217-231.
- Editor: The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen a/d
Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 256 p.
Beale, H. (Distinguished Professor; 0,08 fte)
- Mistake and Non-disclosure of Facts: Models for English Contract Law,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145 p.
- (together with M. Bridge, L. Gullifer and E. Lomnicka), The Law of Security
and Title-based Financing, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, lxiv +
821 p.
- The draft academic common frame of reference and the ‘toolbox’, in: M.
Andenas and C.B. Andersen (eds.), Theory and Practice of Harmonisation,
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 115-128.
- General editor and responsible for chapters 5-7, 26 and part of 43: Chitty
on Contracts, 31st ed., Volume 1 - General Principles and Volume 2 - Specific
Contracts, London: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd.
- The PECL and Consumer Remedies under the CESL, in: M.J. Bonell, M-L.
Holle & P.A. Nielsen (eds.), Liber Amicorum Ole Lando, Copenhagen: DJØF,
pp. 45-58.
Bueno Díaz, O. (University Lecturer; 0,28 fte)
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European
law, edited by Study Group on a European Civil Code [Principles of
European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier European law publishers /
Oxford University Press, 549 p.
- Commercial agency, franchise and distributorship in the DCFR, in: E.
Terryn, V. Sagaert & M. Storme (eds.), The Draft Common Frame of
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Reference: national and comparative perspectives (Ius Commune:
European and Comparative Law Series, volume 99), Antwerp/Oxford:
Intersentia, pp. 387-415.
Comparato, G.
- The Long Shadow of the Volksgeist. Or: the Nationalist Dimension in
European Private Law Discourse, European Review of Contract Law (8), pp.
245-259.
Dankers, D.L.M.T. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,24 fte)
- Boekredactie: (tezamen met M.B.M. Loos) Jurisprudentie
aansprakelijkheidsrecht & contractenrecht 2012/2013 (Boom
jurisprudentie en documentatie), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers,
547 p.
- Noot bij Rechtbank Arnhem (28-09-2011), Rechtspraak
Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (1), 4, pp. 21-23.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (16-12-2011), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (3), 26, pp. 273-275.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (23-12-2011), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (4), 31, pp. 305-307.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (17-02-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (5), 47, pp. 503-505.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (24-02-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (6), 52, pp. 537-539.
- Noot bij de Hoge Raad (25-05-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en
Verzekeringsrecht (10), 82, pp. 804-806.
- Noot bij Rechtbank Amsterdam (13-06-2012), Rechtspraak
Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (11), 97, pp. 1017-1018.
- Noot bij Rechtbank ‘s Gravenhage. (08-13- 2012), Rechtspraak
Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (12), 107, pp. 1103-1105.
Groot, S. de (PhD Student; 0,00 fte)
- Three questions in relation to the scope of book IX DCFR, in: S. van Erp,
A.F. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property
Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers, pp. 137-151.
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Haentjens, M. (External Fellow; 0,00 fte)
- Between property law and contract law: the case of securities, in: S. van
Erp, A. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The future of European property
law, Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, pp. 165-181.
Hamwijk, D.J.Y (PhD Student; 0,42 fte; post-doc 0,58 fte)
- The puzzling concepts of publicity and possession: to the heart of property
law, European Property Law Journal 1(2), pp. 299-316.
Hesselink, M.W. (Professor; 0,70 fte)
- How to opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief comments on the
Commission's proposal for a regulation, European Review of Private Law
20(1), pp. 195-212.
- The Case for a common European Sales Law in an Age of rising
Nationalism, European Review of Contract Law 8(3), pp. 342-366.
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad hoc
briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs,
May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.
Hoek, A.A.H. van (Professor; 0,33 fte)
- CJEU- Pammer and Alpenhof – Grand Chamber 7 December 2012, joined
cases 585/08 and 144/09, not yet published, European Review of Contract
Law ( 1), pp. 93-107.
- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law,
Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht (3), pp. 362-370.
- eDate advertising: de Europese oplossing voor het probleem van ‘libel
tourism’?, Ars Aequi (september), pp. 653-664.
- Het toepasselijk recht op arbeidsovereenkomsten in de zeevaart - Een
commentaar op HvJ EU 15 december 2011, zaak C-384/10,
Voogsgeerd/Navimer, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (7), pp.
245-251.
- De werkingssfeer van het BBA na het NUON arrest van de Hoge Raad –
Deel I: het arrest in context, Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid (12), pp. 5-9.
- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law, in:
N. Lavranos, R. Kok et al (eds.), Hague Yearbook of international law
[Volume 24 2011], Leiden׀Boston: Martinus Nijhof Publishers, pp. 25-47.
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- (together with J. Kocken) The Netherlands, in: C. Esplugues Mota, J. L.
Iglesias & G. Palao (eds.), Civil and Commercial Mediation in Europe:
Volume 1, Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 491-513.
- (together with M. Houwerzijl) ‘Posting’ and ‘posted workers’ – The need
for clear definitions of two key concepts of the Posting of Workers
Directive, in: C. Barnard & M. Gehring with I. Solanke (eds.), Cambridge
Yearbook of European Legal Studies [Volume 14 2011-2012], Oxford: Hart
Publishing, pp. 419-452.
- Boekredactie: (tezamen met R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.
Pontier & J.W. Rutgers), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter
gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.
Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.
- Verordening (EG) Nr. 593/2008 inzake het recht dat van toepassing is op
verbintenissen uit overeenkomst (Rome I) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der
Heijden, J.M. van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar
Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 873-895.
- Verdrag inzake het recht dat van toepassing is verbintenissen uit
overeenkomst (EVO) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M. van Slooten
& E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer,
pp. 895-898.
- Verordening (EG) Nr. 44/2001 betreffende de rechterlijke bevoegdheid,
de erkenning en de tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in burgerlijke en
handelszaken (EEX-Verordening) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M.
van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht,
Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 915-935.
Kortmann, J.S. (Professor; 0,08 fte)
- (together with C.R.A. Swaak) Private Antitrust Enforcement - Status Quo in
the Netherlands, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht , 81974.
- Rechters, advocaten en hookers: amuse, Ars Aequi 61(5), pp. 336-338.
- (tezamen met S. Tuinenga) Kroniek Civiele Rechtspraak
mededingingsrecht 2011, Markt en Mededinging 15(2), pp. 55-65.
- Meervoudige causaliteit: over alternativiteit bij daders én benadeelden, in
Causaliteitsperikelen, in: Preadvies voor de Vereniging voor
Aansprakelijkheids- en Schadevergoedingsrecht (VASR), Deventer: Kluwer,
pp. 31-61.
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Loos, M.B.M. (Professor; 0,40 fte)
- Standard contract terms regulation in the proposal for a common
European sales law, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (4), pp. 776-
796.
- De algemene voorwaarden-regeling in het voorstel voor een
Gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht: een vergelijking met het
Nederlandse recht, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht (5), pp.
166-175.
- Rechtsgevolgen van onredelijk bezwarende bedingen in algemene
voorwaarden, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie
(6940), pp. 561-562.
- De totstandkoming en bedenktijdregeling van op afstand gesloten
energieleveringsovereenkomsten, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht &
Handelspraktijken (1), pp. 6-10.
- (together with O. Bueno Díaz) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European
law, edited by Study Group on a European Civil Code [Principles of
European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier European law publishers /
Oxford University Press, 549 p.
- Scope and application of the Optional Instrument, in: D. Voinot, J. Sénéchal
(eds.), Vers un droit européen des contrats spéciaux /Towards a European
Law of Specific Contracts, Gent: Larcier, pp. 117-150.
- Sales law in the DCFR, in: V. Sagaert, M. E. Storme, E. Terryn (eds.), The
DCFR: a national and comparative perspective,
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 453-489.
- (together with I. Samoy) Introduction, in: I. Samoy & M.B.M. Loos (eds.),
Linked contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 1-7.
- (together with A.L.M. Keirse) The Optional Instrument and the Consumer
Rights Directive: alternative ways to a new ius commune in contract law,
in: A.L.M. Keirse & M.B.M. Loos (eds.), Alternative ways to Ius commune.
The Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 1-20.
- Conformity and Non-conformity of Digital Content, in: N. Helberger, L.
Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der Sloot (eds.), Digital
Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European Framework
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[Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp.
81-111.
- (tezamen met H.N. Schelhaas) Het Weens Koopverdrag en het
Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht: de positie van de commerciële
koper, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.
Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel
ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.
Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 83-97.
- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der
Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European
Framework [Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law
International, XVII + 284 p.
- (together with M.W. Hesselink) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad
hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal
Affairs, May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.
- (together with C. Mak) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the
supply of digital content, ad hoc briefing paper for the European
Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, 25 p.
- (together with J.A. Luzak) Report on the transposition of consumer law
Directives in the Netherlands, for the EC Consumer Law Compendium,
European Commission’s project, March 2012 (http://www.eu-consumer-
law.org/).
- Editor: (together with I. Samoy), Linked contracts [Ius Commune
Europaeum series, 103], Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia,
xii+166 p.
- Editor: (together with A.L.M. Keirse), Alternative ways to Ius commune. The
Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, 268 p.
- Redactie: (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.
Pontier & J.W. Rutgers), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter
gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.
Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.
- Redactie: (tezamen met A.L.M. Keirse, S.D. Lindenbergh & A.J. Verheij),
Beter Burgerlijk Recht, Deventer: Kluwer, 200 p.
- Van de redactie, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken
(1), p. 1.
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- Cost and fee allocation in the Netherlands, in: M. Reimann (ed.), Cost and
fee allocation in civil procedure [Ius Gentium, 11],
Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, pp. 219-227.
- Overeenkomsten tot levering van digitale inhoud, in: A.L.M. Keirse, S.D.
Lindenbergh, M.B.M. Loos & A.J. Verheij (eds.), Beter Burgerlijk Recht,
Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 169-177.
- Preface to this volume, in: M.B.M. Loos & O. Bueno Díaz, Mandate
Contracts, Principles of European law, edited by Study Group on a European
Civil Code [Principles of European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier
European law publishers / Oxford University Press, p. XII.
- Boekredactie: (tezamen met D.L.M.T. Dankers-Hagenaars) Jurisprudentie
aansprakelijkheidsrecht & contractenrecht 2012/2013 [Boom
jurisprudentie en documentatie], Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers,
547 p.
- Noot bij Hoge Raad (09-12-2011), (Schriftelijkheidsvereiste bij de koop
van woningen door particulieren, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk
Recht (4), pp. 131-136.
- Noot bij Hof Leeuwarden (21-02-2012), (LJN BV6422: X/Apart Meubel- en
Interieurbouw), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken
(4), nr. 20, pp. 175-177.
- Noot bij Rechtbank Utrecht (11-04-2012), Tijdschrift voor
Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken (5), pp. 230-232.
- Noot bij Hof van Justitie (14-06-2012), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht
& Handelspraktijken (6), pp. 285-290.
Luzak, J.A. (University Lecturer; 0,50 fte)
- Linked contracts and the construction sector: a builder's contractual
obligation to warn the client about a risk that might emerge from a
contract between the client and the designer, in: M.B.M. Loos & I. Samoy
(eds.), Linked Contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],
Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 55-78.
- Dissertation: The service provider's duty to warn about defects caused by
third parties. A case study on the precontractual and contractual duty to
warn in English, German and Dutch law and in the Draft Common Frame of
Reference, Den Haag: Stichting Instituut voor Bouwrecht, 284 p.
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- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Report on the transposition of consumer law
Directives in the Netherlands, for the EC Consumer Law Compendium,
European Commission’s project, March 2012 (http://www.eu-consumer-
law.org/).
- The constructor’s duties to warn about design failures in the DCFR from a
Dutch perspective, Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht (197) , pp. 1097-1107.
- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union, (Who should bear the
risk of the removal of the non-conforming goods? Joined cases C-65/09
and C-87/09 (Weber and Putz)), Zeitschrift für Europäisches
Unternehmens- und Verbraucherrecht (1), pp. 35-40.
- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union (15-03-2012), (Unfair
commercial practice ≠ unfair contract term ≠ void contract), Ars Aequi (6),
pp. 428-432.
- Noot bij Hof van Justitie, (Wie draagt het risico van verwijdering van een
non-conform goed? Bespreking van de uitspraken van het Hof van Justitie:
nr. C-65/09 (Weber) en nr. C-87/09 (Putz)), Tijdschrift voor
Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken (1), pp. 25-28.
Mak, C. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,60 fte)
- Europe-building through private law. Lessons from constitutional theory,
European Review of Contract Law 8(3), pp. 326-341.
- Hedgehogs in Luxembourg? A Dworkinian Reading of the CJEU's Case Law
on Principles of Private Law and Some Doubts of the Fox, European Review
of Private Law 20(2), pp. 323-345.
- Fundamental rights and digital content contracts, in: N. Helberger, L.
Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der Sloot (eds.), Digital
Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European Framework
[Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp.
131-147.
- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, L. Pessers & B. van
der Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European
Framework [Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law
International, XVII + 284 p.
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the
supply of digital content, ad hoc briefing paper for the European
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Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, Brussels:
European Parliament, 25 p.
- Book review of H.-W. Micklitz (ed.), The Many Concepts of Social Justice in
European Private Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 488
p., Yearbook of European Law, pp. 516-523.
- Book review of A. Gatto, Multi-national Enterprises and Human Rights.
Obligations under EU Law and International Law (PhD thesis EUI,
Florence), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 352 p., Common
Market Law Review 49 (5), pp. 1799-1801.
Manko, R.T. (PhD Student; 0,00 fte)
- The Institutional Implications of the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland, in:
J.W. Rutgers (ed.), European Contract Law and the Welfare State,
Groningen: Europa Law Publishers, pp. 141-172.
- Quality of Legislation Following a Transition from Really Existing
Socialism to Capitalism: a Case Study of General Clauses in Polish Private
Law, in: J. Rozenfelds (ed.), The Quality of Legal Acts and Its Importance in
Contemporary Legal Space, Riga: University of Latvia Press, pp. 540-561.
- Resistance towards the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland: the interaction
between the consumer acquis and a post-socialist legal culture, in: M.
Kenny & J. Devenney (eds.), European Consumer Protection: Theory and
Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 412-434.
Oderkerk, A.E. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,49 fte)
- (tezamen met L.M. Coenraad,) Internationale echtscheiding in Nederland
1964-2012, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk,
J.A. Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar.
Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de
Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische
uitgevers, pp. 83-97.
- (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, J.A. Pontier &
J.W. Rutgers) Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid
van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-
2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.
- Ontbinding van het huwelijk, in: Th.M. de Boer & F. Ibili (eds.), Nederlands
internationaal personen- en familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 133-151.
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- Verordening (EG) Nr. 2201/2003 betreffende de bevoegdheid en de
erkenning en tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in huwelijkszaken en
inzake de ouderlijke verantwoordelijkheid, en tot intrekking van
verordening (EG) nr. 1347/2000 (Brussel II bis)(Uittreksel), Tekst en
Commentaar Personen- en Familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer 2012, pp. 2453-
2555.
Purnhagen, K.P. (External Fellow; 0,00 fte)
- Principles of European Private Or Civil Law? – A Reminder of the
Symbiotic Relationship between the ECJ and the DCFR in a Pluralistic
European Private Law, European Law Journal 18 (6), pp. 844-867.
- Kein Rausch für Ausländer und andere europarechtliche Probleme, ius.full
(2/12), pp. 42-53.
- (together with Dennis-Jonathan Mann) The Nature of Union Citizenship
Between Autonomy and Dependency on (Member) State Citizenship - A
Comparative Analysis of the Rottmann Ruling, or: how to Avoid a
European Dred Scott Decision?, Wisconsin International Law Journal 29(3),
pp. 484-533.
- (together with H. Micklitz & G. Spindler) Analysis of the Legal System of
Consumer Protection Rules in E-Commerce in Germany and the EU, in:
K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Comparative
Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.
Beck/Hart/Nomos.
- Analysis of the Surveillance System of Consumer Protection Rules in E-
Commerce, in: K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A
Comparative Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.
Beck/Hart/Nomos.
- Coordinating Editor: E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Comparative
Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.
Beck/Hart/Nomos, 259 p.
Salomons, A.F. (Professor; 0,30 fte)
- Nogmaals art. 3:105 BW: is een verbergende dief bezitter, houder of
‘gebrekkig bezitter’?, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie
(6921), pp. 199-205.
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- (tezamen met I.C. van der Vlies) Kunst, recht en beleid. - 2e druk, Den Haag:
Boom Juridische uitgevers, 290 p.
- Editor: (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans), The Future of European
Property Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers.
- (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans) Preface, in: S. van Erp, A.F.
Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property Law,
Munich: sellier european law publishers, pp. v-vi.
Tjon Soei Len, L.K.L. (Post-doc; 1,00 fte)
- European Contract Law and the Capabilities Approach: On Distributive
Responsibility for Contract Law, in: N. Weidtmann, Y.M. Hölzchen, B. Hawa
(eds.), The Capability Approach on Social Order, Münster: LIT Verlag, pp.
132-148.
- Prostituee Josje is niet anders dan Remy Bonjasky en verdient hetzelfde
respect, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 26 October 2012 [Op-ed on political liberalism
and the criminalization of prostitution].
- Als Apple consument is het nu toch wat ongemakkelijk naar je bureaublad
kijken, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 13 February 2012 [Op-ed on the immorality
and invalidity of contracts for goods made in sweatshops.].
Vries, G.J.P. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,40 fte)
- Het voorstel van de Europese Commissie voor een verordening
betreffende een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht, SEW, Tijdschrift
voor Europees en economisch recht 60(12), pp. 502-507.
Weijs, R.J. de (University Lecturer; 0,41 fte)
- (together with E.J.R. Verwey, C. Bärenz & R.M.A. Connell) Financing in
distress against security from an English, German and Dutch perspective:
a walk in the park or in a mine field?, International Insolvency Law Review,
21(1), pp. 21-44.
- Harmonisation of European Insolvency Law and the need to tackle two
common problems: common pool and anticommons, International
Insolvency Review (21), pp. 67-83.
- (tezamen met E.J.M. van Rijckevorsel-Teeuwen) Actio Pauliana en
notariële aansprakelijkheid; de notaris en het rechtsverkeer gezamenlijk
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in het nauw, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie, pp. 215-
226.
- Commentaar artikel 42 - 51 Faillissementswet, Groene Kluwer (losbladig),
125 p.
- Harmonisatie versus competitie van insolventierecht en minimum
veiligheidsvoorschriften voor het Engelse insolventiebordeel, in: A.A.H.
van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier & J.W.
Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid
van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-
2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 189-201.
Zelst, B. van (External Fellow; 0,00 fte)
- Artikel 10:154 BW: een nieuwe benadering bij de bepaling van het recht
toepasselijk op de overeenkomst tot arbitrage?, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor
Burgerlijk Recht (18), pp. 115-120.
- De gevolgen van vernietiging voor de overeenkomst tot arbitrage en de
herziening van artikel 1067 Rv., Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage (3).
- The proposed new Dutch Arbitration Act, International Arbitration Law
Review 18(3), pp. 75-80.
- Noot bij Raad van Arbitrage voor de Bouw (30-11-2011), (Overeenkomst
tot arbitrage in algemene voorwaarden), nr. 71.614, Tijdschrift voor
Bouwrecht (95).
- Book review of C. Twigg-Flessner (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to
European Union Private law, Oxford: Cambridge University Press (2010),
380 p., European Law Journal 18(2), pp. 331-332.
- (together with M.L.S. Kalff) Dutch chapter on international insolvency, in:
Cross-Border Insolvency II. A guide to recognition and enforcement, London
(UK): INSOL International, pp. 179-182.
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9. Societal impact
Societal relevance of CSECL’s research Part of CSECL’s research aims at societal impact, in particular on the European
and the national law maker, in the areas affected by European law. Here too,
we build on our experience and contacts established under the previous
programme. The typical research output here consists of reports, briefing
notes and oral presentations at hearings in the European Parliament, for the
European Commission, and for the national legislator. Another example is the
membership of expert groups. Obviously, there is a close connection between
fundamental and applied research. Indeed, any meaningful input for law
makers depends on the knowledge acquired and expertise developed in the
context of our fundamental research.
Reports - Hesselink, M.W. & M.B.M. Loos, Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad hoc
briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May
2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.
- Loos, M.B.M. & C. Mak, Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply
of digital content, ad hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s
Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, 25 p.
- Loos, M.B.M. & J.A. Luzak, Report on the transposition of consumer law
Directives in the Netherlands, for the EC Consumer Law Compendium,
European Commission’s project, March 2012 (http://www.eu-consumer-
law.org/).
Hearings - Hoek, A.A.H. van (22 March 2012) Working conditions of posted workers, legal
aspects, Brussels, Hearing on the difficulties with the enforcement of the
Directive on the Posting of Workers in the European Parliament.
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- Hesselink, M.W. & M.B.M. Loos (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in B2C
contracts, Brussels (Belgium), workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’,
organized by the European Parliament.
- Loos, M.B.M. (19 June 2012) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the
supply of digital content, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European
Sales Law’, organised by the European Parliament.
Invited lectures A. International
Baaij C.J.W.
- (26-27 January 2012) The Role of Comparative Legal Analysis in EU
Translation, Luxembourg/Brussels, the European Commission.
- (15 November 2012) Managing Diverging Language Versions, Brussels, the
European Council.
Bartl, M.
- (13 September 2012) The Democratisation of Expertise, Rome (Italy), SISP
Conference 'In the knowledge we trust?'.
Hesselink, M.W. & M.B.M. Loos
- (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, Brussels (Belgium),
workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’, organized by the European
Parliament.
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- (22 March 2012) Working conditions of posted workers, legal aspects, Brussels,
Hearing on the difficulties with the enforcement of the Directive on the
Posting of Workers in the European Parliament.
Loos, M.B.M. & C. Mak
- (19 June 2012) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply of digital
content, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’,
organised by the European Parliament.
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Mak, C.
- (9 November 2012) The DCFR and commercial contracts. An uncommon frame
of reference?, Warsaw (Poland), DCFR moot court.
B. National
Hesselink, M.W.
- (7 februari 2012) Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht, Hof
Amsterdam, lezing.
- (14 september 2012) Kiezen voor het gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht,
Universiteit Gent, studiedag ‘ Het nieuw Europees kooprecht gewikt en
gewogen’.
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- (21 juni 2012) Grensoverschrijdende Arbeid Lex Lumen, Nijenrode University
Breukelen, masterclass.
Press & News media Tjon Soei Len, L.K.L.
- Prostituee Josje is niet anders dan Remy Bonjasky en verdient hetzelfde
respect, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 26 October 2012 [Op-ed on political liberalism and
the criminalization of prostitution].
- Als Apple consument is het nu toch wat ongemakkelijk naar je bureaublad
kijken, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 13 February 2012 [Op-ed on the immorality and
invalidity of contracts for goods made in sweatshops.].
Stakeholders meetings Loos, M.B.M.
- (5 June 2012) Stakeholder’s meeting European Commission on Package travel
(influencing possible change of the directive on Package travel).
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Other research activities Dankers, D.L.M.T.
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Gerechtshof Amsterdam.
Hesselink, M.W.
- Honorary judge Court of Appeal of Amsterdam.
- Member European Law Institute.
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Den Bosch.
- (together with Joris Kocken, UvA/Groningen) National expert in the EU
project Removing obstacles to access to (e)Justice through mediation in Europe:
ensuring enforcement and a smooth cooperation with judicial and non-judicial
authorities.
Loos, M.B.M.
- Rechter-plaatsvervanger Rechtbank 's-Hertogenbosch.
- Member College of Experts, Central Bureau for the Acquisition of Funding
(CBF).
Mak, C.
- Board member Bregstein Stichting.
Oderkerk, A.E.
- Board member Amsterdam Centre for Children’s Rights.
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Amsterdam.
Salomons, A.F.
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Gerechtshof Amsterdam.
- Secretaris M.H. Bregstein Stichting.
Weijs, R.J. de
- Fellow Insolad.
- Member Insol Europe.
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10. Conferences & seminars
Conferences
Seminar ‘Private law and nationalism', Amsterdam, 3 February 2012
What is the relation between national private law
orders and nationalism? What are the prospects for
the further development of European private law in an
age characterised by a re-emergence of nationalist
attitudes throughout Europe? In order to find answers to these questions, the
Centre for the Study of European Contract Law organised a seminar on
‘Private Law and Nationalism’, in the framework of the research project
National resistance to Europeanisation of private law financed by the HiiL.
Introduced by a stimulating editorial by Grundmann on the opportunity and
features of an Optional European Private Law, the papers presented at the
Amsterdam seminar were published in a special issue of the European Review
of Contract Law (2012, Volume 8, Number 3).
Symposium 'Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de
Europese Unie', Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012
On Wednesday 29 February 2012, the Centre for the
Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) organized a
symposium (in Dutch) about the European
Commission’s proposal for a Common European Sales
Law at the Bethaniënklooster in Amsterdam. Experts on private law discussed
the merits of the proposal in general as well as of rules proposed for specific
topics. In particular, the implications for Dutch contract law were examined.
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Conference ‘Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy’,
Amsterdam, 20 & 21 September 2012
The project 'Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy' took
effect after a workshop in September 2011, which guided its development. A
year later, the research group again wished to engage with its peers. During
the Conference both empirical and normative approaches to the project
themes were explored, gathering contributions from the three fields of law
that compose the project (public international law, European public law and
European private law).
CSECL seminar series
Prof. Takis Tridimas (Queen Mary, University of London)
6 February 2012
The scope of application of General Principles: Bold Rulings and Fine
Distinctions
The purpose of the presentation was to discuss developments in two
areas: First, recent rulings of the ECJ on the scope of application of the
general principles of law and the Charter (Zambrano, MacCarthy,
Kücükdeveci and some national rulings); and secondly, the horizontal effect of general
principles revisiting older cases (e.g. VW golden shares) and recent rulings
(Dominguez).
Ingemar Strandvik (Quality Manager, the European Commission's
Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), Brussels)
27 February 2012
Translating the Common European Sales Law into 23 Language Versions: Business as
Usual?
Organised together with the Amsterdam Circle for Law and Language (ACLL).
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Based on input from translators in various language departments who were
consulted for this presentation, the speaker discussed some of the provisions of the
proposal for a Common European Sales Law to illuminate terminological choices
made, difficulties encountered and other matters relevant to the role of translation in
the legislative procedure.
Cristina Amato (University of Brescia, Italy)
5 March 2012
Financial investors as consumers in a European perspective
This lecture dealt with protections of investors in the Italian legislation and within a
European context. First, the definition of ‘investors’ as consumers was discussed in
detail in the European as well as in the Italian legislation. Secondly, the effectiveness
of excessive private remedies was questioned in case they are not buttressed by a
consistent and rational framework. An efficient protective system should first
seriously enforce public remedies available (criminal sanctions and fines); secondly,
it should simplify remedies and access to justice through the establishment of a
hierarchy of remedies.
Vincent Sagaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
26 March 2012
Contractualization of ownership
During this seminar, the effects of contractualization of
ownership was discussed. Traditionally, civil law comprises a
rigid concept of ownership, rooted in the feudal period, with
essential features: (1) exclusivity, (2) perpetuity and (3) absoluteness of ownership.
Exclusivity and perpetuity are at stake in trust-like devices, since trusts make an
ownership subject (‘inferior’) to the contractual arrangement of the parties. The
speaker submitted that the hostility of the civil law towards trust is rooted into the
traditional anti-feudal concept and posed the question if, nevertheless, minds are
changing.
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Prof. Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University)
2 April 2012
Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law
Many private law scholars strive to divine broad unified
normative theories of property, contracts, torts, and
restitution (or, at times, even of private law as a whole).
These monist accounts suggest that one regulative principle guides the various
doctrines of these complex legal fields or that, even if more than one value shapes a
given field, there is one particular balance of such values that guides the entire
terrain. Notwithstanding the intuitive appeal of such structural monism, this Essay
calls for a pluralist turn in private law theory and argues that a structurally pluralist
and moderately perfectionist understanding provides a better account of private law
generally and of property law more particularly.
Prof. Mattias Kumm (NYU School of Law)
23 April 2012
Constitutionalism and the Moral Point of Constitutional
Pluralism: Institutional Civil Disobedience and Conscientious
Objection
What are the assumptions underlying the claim the
European legal practice can be described as both "pluralist" and "constitutional"?
What are the circumstances under which such pluralism - as opposed to hierarchical
integration - is attractive? What specific structure should this pluralism have in order
for it to best realize its moral point? Kumm argued that the moral point of the specific
structure of pluralism in Europe is to create space for institutional civil disobedience
and conscientious objection as a response to structural constitutional deficiencies of
the larger more encompassing legal order and discusses the jurisprudential
assumptions and normative implications of such an understanding of constitutional
pluralism.
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Prof. Neil Komesar (University of Wisconsin Law School)
7 May 2012
The Essence of Economics: Behavior, Choice and Comparison -
Essay One 'The Basic Thesis with Lessons from the Economic
Analysis of the Common Law
The failure to account for the parallel movements of
institutions has deformed the economic analysis of law and public policy by focusing
on the wrong issues and on the wrong margins of inquiry. Without comparative
institutional analysis, the economic analysis of institutional choice is largely empty
and the remarkable insights about institutional behavior provided by economic
analysis are wasted. This is the first in a series of essays attempting to correct this
problem. It sets out an approach to understanding and comparing institutions based
on the dynamics of participation, an approach already inherent in most economic
analysis. This essay then shows the problems created by the failure to employ this
approach in a comparative institutional manner by examining economic analysis of
law in general and the efficiency of the common law in particular.
Prof. Gareth Davies (VU Centre for European Legal Studies)
2 July 2012
Horizontal Effect of Free Movement and its Impact on the
Freedom of Contract
Prof. Ianika Tzankova (Tilburg University)
24 September 2012
Class actions and settlements and litigation culture: facts and figures or
unmything myths
Professor Ianika Tzankova and Professor Deborah Hensler are
collaborating on a paper they plan to write for an European Law
Journal in which they will present existing empirical research with
respect to US class action and settlements and of the empirical research that they
conducted with regard to the Dutch Act on Collective Settlements (WCAM). The
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existing empirical research does not support the claim that class actions and
settlements lead to an excessive litigation culture.
Prof. Franz Werro (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)
8 October 2012
The Impact of ECJ Case Law on National Private Law and some
Provisional Thoughts on the Development of European Contract Law
The seminar addressed, first, selected aspects of ECJ case law and of its
impact on national private law, paying particular attention to Swiss
case law. It then assessed the proposal for a Common European Sales
Law and its alleged failure to unify contract law in Europe.
Prof. Janneke Gerards (Radboud University of Nijmegen)
12 November 2012
The European Court of Human Rights and the national courts – giving
shape to the notion of ‘shared responsibility’
This seminar was based on a report aiming to illuminate how and to
what extent the European Court of Human Rights obliges national
courts to adopt its argumentative methods and principles, to what
degree and by which means it respects national sensitivities and traditions, and how
it responds to national criticism (either of a political or of a judicial nature). Special
focus is thereby placed on the notion of ‘shared responsibility’ for safeguarding the
Convention and the notion of judicial dialogue. During the seminar, the need for such
notions was discussed and their meaning was further explored. Moreover, it was
discussed how the Court uses a variety of interpretative approaches to bolster
judicial dialogue and ‘shared responsibility’, and to what extent the Court’s use of
these approaches is successful.
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Dr Constanze Semmelmann (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
17 December 2012
The case against a new general principle of EU law : The prohibition of abusive
practices
The presentation was part of a larger research project on the role of comparative law
in the context of the possible recognition of a new general principle that aims at
combating abusive practices in EU law. Constanze Semmelmann collected arguments
against the recognition of a general principle of prohibiting abusive practices in EU
law. To begin with, she explored the notion of principle from a legal theoretical and
EU law point of view and discussed various problems relating to the recognition of a
principle of prohibiting abusive practices in EU law such as its source-quality and the
controversial need to create a separate category of norms. Subsequently, she set out
the additional difficulties linked to the generality of a given principle both in an
abstract manner and also in relation to the prohibition of abusive practices. An
overall appraisal showed that the recognition of a principle of prohibiting abusive
practices in EU law could be justified at least to an extent, whereas its generality has
rightly been dealt with great caution in the most recent court cases.
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11. Invited lectures
International Baaij C.J.W.
- (26-27 January 2012) The Role of Comparative Legal Analysis in EU
Translation, Luxembourg/Brussels, the European Commission.
- (26-27 April 2012) The Method for Comparing Interpretation, Edinburgh
(UK), ‘Symposium on Interpretation of Contract’, organized by Edinburgh
Centre for Commercial Law, University of Edinburgh.
- (21-22 June 2012) Legal Translation and the ‘Contamination’ of
Comparative Legal Research, Canterbury, International Conference
‘Comparative Law: Engaging Translation’, organized by Kent Centre for
European and Comparative Law and Kent Law School.
- (15 November 2012) Managing Diverging Language Versions, Brussels, the
European Council.
- (30 November – 1 December 2012) Can Legal Definitions in Different
Languages refer to the Same 'Common' Legal Concepts?, Torino,
International Conference ‘Pragmatic Issues in Legal Translation – From
the Different Language Versions of the DCFR to the CESL Proposal’,
organized by Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law, University of
Torino.
- (20 December) EU Legal Translation and the Assumption of Imperfect
Translation, seminar, Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsselfdorf,
Philosophische Fakultät
Bartl, M.
- (17 May 2012) Contesting Legality, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri,
Turin (Italy), Conference ‘Transnational Societal Constitutionalism’.
- (23 May 2012) Legitimacy of the Common European Sales Law, Maastricht
European Private Law Institute, lecture.
- (13 September 2012) The Democratisation of Expertise, Rome (Italy), SISP
Conference 'In the knowledge we trust?'.
- (20 September 2012) The Democratisation of Expertise? On Normative
Requirements for the Involvement of Expertise in Policy Making in the EU.
Lessons from European private Law, Amsterdam, Conference ‘Postnational
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Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy’, organized within the
framework of the project 'The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking'.
- (27 September 2012) Subsidiarity as a Tool of Democratic Governance in
the EU: On Setting the Goals, Choosing the Means and Countering Biases,
Helsinki, Conference 'Democracy and Law in Europe'.
Comparato, G.
- (3 February 2012) The long shadow of the Volksgeist, Amsterdam, Seminar
'Private law and nationalism'.
Hesselink, M.W.
- (3 February 2012) Post-nationalism and a European legal space,
Amsterdam, Seminar 'Private law and nationalism'.
- (10 May 2012) The broader picture: the place of a common European sales
law within the world of private law, Rome (Italy), Conference 'The Making
of European private law: why, how, what, who’, organised by Università
degli studi Roma Tre.
- (together with M.B.M. Loos) (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in B2C
contracts, Brussels (Belgium), workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’,
organized by the European Parliament.
- (together with D.M. Curtin & P.A. Nollkaemper) (21 September 2012)
Conclusion: Views from International Public Law, European Public Law and
European Private Law, Amsterdam, Conference 'Postnational Rulemaking
between Authority and Autonomy', organised within the framework of the
project 'The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking'.
- (8 November 2012) Private Law Principles, Pluralism and Perfectionism,
Stockholm (Sweden), Conference ‘General Principles of EU Law and
European Private Law’, organized by the Swedish Network for European
Legal Studies.
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- (22 March 2012) Working conditions of posted workers, legal aspects,
Brussels, Hearing on the difficulties with the enforcement of the Directive
on the Posting of Workers in the European Parliament.
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Kortmann, J.S.
- (15 October 2012) European Private Remedies, invited professor, Fordham
Law School New York (USA).
Loos, M.B.M.
- (3 April 2012) Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen im Gemeinsamen
Europäischen Kaufrecht, Würzburg (Germany), Symposium Zeitschrift für
Europäisches Privatrecht.
- (11 May 2012) Standard terms in the proposal for a Common European
Sales Law, Rome (Italy), Symposium ‘The making of European Private
Law: why, how, what, who’.
- (together with M.W. Hesselink) (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in
B2C contracts, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European Sales
Law’, organised by the European Parliament.
- (19 June 2012) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply of
digital content, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European Sales
Law’, organised by the European Parliament.
Luzak, J.A.
- (18 May 2012) Towards a European Re-definition of National Concepts of
Damage, Houston (US), Teaching Consumer Law Conference.
- (9 October 2012) Privacy notice for dummies? - Towards European
guidelines on how to give ‘clear and comprehensive information’ on the use
of cookies in order to protect the internet user’s right to online privacy,
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Privacy Conference.
Mak, C.
- (3 February 2012) Private law and European constitutionalism,
Amsterdam, Seminar 'Private law and nationalism', within the framework
of the HIIL/NWO project 'National resistance against Europeanisation of
private law: a multi disciplinary investigation into the roles of nationalist
ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers’.
- (28 April 2012) In defence of CESL, Chicago (USA), Conference ‘European
contract law: A law-and-economics perspective’.
- (17 September 2012) Fundamental Rights in European Contract Law, Oslo
(Norway), annual seminar for Norwegian PhD researchers.
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- (21 September 2012) Fundamental Rights as Deliberative Principles in
Transnational Private Law, Amsterdam, Conference on Postnational
Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy, organized within the
framework of the project 'The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking'.
- (26 October 2012) European private law values as sources of fundamental
rights, Maastricht, conference ‘EU law in the private sphere’.
- (27 October 2012) Europe-building through private law. Individual
interests, judicial deliberations and the common good, Groningen,
conference ‘Public policy, good morals and social justice in European
private law’.
- (9 November 2012) The DCFR and commercial contracts. An uncommon
frame of reference?, Warsaw (Poland), DCFR moot court.
- (3 December 2012) A matter of principle? Coordinating EU and national
contract laws, University of Oslo (Norway), workshop ‘The future of
European contract law’.
Manko, R.
- (24 April 2012) ‘Principles of social coexistence’ in Polish legal culture:
The rise and fall of a general clause and its consequences for legal
practices, Lund (Sweden), conference ‘The Normative Anatomy of Society:
Relations Between Norms and Law in the 21st Century’.
- (15 September 2012) Weeds in the Gardens of Justice? Legal Survivals as a
Symptom in Polish Legal Culture, Stockholm (Sweden), conference
‘Gardens of Justice. Critical Legal Conference 2012’.
- (4 October 2012) Quality of Legislation Following a Transition from Really
Existing Socialism to Capitalism: a Case Study of General Clauses in Polish
Private Law, organized by the University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia),
conference ‘The Quality of Legal Acts and its Importance in Contemporary
Legal Space’.
National Hesselink, M.W.
- (7 februari 2012) Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht, Hof
Amsterdam, lezing.
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- (29 februari 2012) Keuze voor het instrument, nationaal dwingend recht en
self-standing nature, Amsterdam, Symposium 'Naar een
Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie'.
- (20 maart 2012) Het karakter, de rol en de legitimiteit van de algemene
beginselen van burgerlijk recht, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, lezing.
- (14 september 2012) Kiezen voor het gemeenschappelijk Europees
kooprecht, Universiteit Gent, studiedag ‘ Het nieuw Europees kooprecht
gewikt en gewogen’.
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- (6 juni 2012) Het toepasselijke nationale recht, Rotterdam, symposium ‘De
gevolgen van de implementatie van het Maritiem Arbeidsverdrag (MAV)’.
- (21 juni 2012) Grensoverschrijdende Arbeid Lex Lumen, Nijenrode
University Breukelen, masterclass.
- (29 November 2012) Mediation in The Netherlands: the current debate,
University of Valencia(Spain), seminar ‘Mediation, Justice and Global
Justice. Some Experiences’.
Loos, M.B.M.
- (29 februari 2012) Algemene voorwaarden, Amsterdam, Symposium 'Naar
een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie',
organised by CSECL.
Mak, C.
- (29 februari 2012) Digitale inhoud, Amsterdam, Symposium 'Naar een
Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie'.
- (18 april 2012) Fundamental rights as deliberative principles in European
contract law, Groningen Centre for Law and Governance.
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12. Other research activities
Baaij, C.J.W.
- Volume editor international comparative legal study Interpretation of
Commercial Contracts, study for the ‘Common Core of European Private
Law’.
- Associate editor e-Journal Language and Law
(http://www.languageandlaw.de)
- Founder Amsterdam Circle for Law & Language (www.
lawandlanguage.eu)
- Member Common Core of European Private Law.
- Co-founder and interviewer LEaP, the podcast-series on Law, Economics
and Philosophy (http://csecl.uva.nl/research/research-themes/theme-3-
the-legitimacy-of-postnational-private-law/about-leap.html).
Bartl, M.
- (4 June 2012) Legitimacy and European Private Law, European University
Institute, Florence (Italy), PhD defense, (supervisor prof. dr H.W. Micklitz).
Comparato, G.
- (23 October 2012) Nationalism and Private Law in Europe, Universiteit van
Amsterdam, PhD defense (supervisor: prof. M.W. Hesselink, co-supervisor:
dr C. Mak).
Dankers, D.L.M.T.
- Voorzitter Nederlandse afdeling Association Henri Capitant.
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Gerechtshof Amsterdam.
- Annotator Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht.
- Medewerker losbladige serie Verbintenissenrecht, Groene Serie, Kluwer.
Duivenvoorde, B.B.
- Editorial board secretary Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht &
handelspraktijken.
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Hesselink, M.W.
- (together with C. Mak) Organisation Seminar on Private Law and
Nationalism, Amsterdam, 3 February 2012.
- (tezamen met M.B.M. Loos & C. Mak) Organisatie Symposium 'Naar een
Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie',
Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012.
- Supervisor G. Comparato, ‘Nationalism and Private Law in Europe’,
Universiteit van Amsterdam (PhD defense 23 October 2012).
- Editor European Review of Contract Law.
- Editor Global Jurist.
- Editor Ius Commune Lectures on European Private Law.
- Editor Schriften zur Europäischen Rechtswissenschaft/European Legal
Studies/Études juridiques européennes.
- Editor SSRN European Private Law.
- Member Advisory board European Review of Private Law.
- Onderzoeksleider ‘Algemeen verbintenissen- en Contractenrecht’,
research school Ius Commune.
- Fellow member Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics.
- Lid boekenraad Ars Aequi Libri, sectie Rechtsvergelijking, i.p.r.,
internationaal handelsrecht en Europees Privaatrecht.
- Honorary judge Court of Appeal of Amsterdam.
- Associate Member International Academy of Comparative Law.
- Member Offerhaus Circle.
- Member Trento Group 'The Common Core of European Private Law'.
- Member European Law Institute.
Hoek, A.A.H. van
- Organisation Ius Commune conference, workshop on civil procedure,
Amsterdam, 30 November 2012.
- Editor Arbeidsovereenkomst IPR, Toepasselijke recht, EVO en IPR,
Bevoegdheid, Verordening 44/200 (losbladig).
- Member of the Board NIPR - Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht.
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Den Bosch.
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Loos, M.B.M.
- (tezamen met M.W. Hesselink en C. Mak) Organisatie Symposium 'Naar
een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie',
Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012.
- Editor Tijdschrift voor consumentenrecht & handelspraktijken.
- Member editorial board Zeitschrift für Europäisches Unternehmens- und
Verbraucherrecht.
- Member editorial board double blind peer reviewed book series European
Economic Law and Regulation.
- Vaste medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees recht.
- Vaste medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk recht.
- Rechter-plaatsvervanger Rechtbank 's-Hertogenbosch.
- Coordinating program leader Contract Law, Research school Ius
Commune.
- Bestuurslid, Research school Ius Commune.
- Member Editorial Committee Vereniging voor Burgerlijk Recht.
- Member Working Party on Common European Sales Law Position at
European Law Institute.
- Secretaris Offerhaus Circle.
- Member College of Experts, Central Bureau for the Acquisition of Funding
(CBF).
Luzak, J.A.
- Founder and Editor Blog Recent Developments in European Consumer Law.
Mak, C.
- (together with M.W. Hesselink) Organisation Seminar on Private Law and
Nationalism, Amsterdam, 3 February 2012.
- (tezamen met M.W. Hesselink en M.B.M. Loos) Organisatie Symposium
'Naar een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese
Unie', Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012.
- (together with J.M. Mendes & I. Venzke) Organisation Conference on
Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy, Amsterdam,
20-21 September 2012.
- Co-supervisor G. Comparato, ‘Nationalism and Private Law in Europe’,
Universiteit van Amsterdam (PhD defense 23 October 2012).
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- Visiting researcher at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (May-June
2012).
- Research fellow Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics.
- Associate member Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Diritti e Regole (Lider-
Lab), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa.
- Board member Offerhaus Circle.
- Board member Bregstein Stichting.
- Editor European Human Rights Cases (EHRC).
- Member European Law Institute
Oderkerk, A.E.
- Board member Amsterdam Centre for Children’s Rights.
- Treasurer Offerhaus Circle.
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Amsterdam.
- Medewerker Tekst & Commentaar Personen- en Familierecht.
Purnhagen, K.P.
- Associate editor European Journal of Risk Regulation.
Salomons, A.F.
- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Gerechtshof Amsterdam.
- Secretaris M.H. Bregstein Stichting.
- Editor European Property Law Journal.
- Medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Handelsrecht.
- Medewerker Vermogensrechtelijke analyses.
- Medewerker Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie.
Vries, G.J.P.
- Medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Handelsrecht.
- Medewerker Tijdschrift voor consumentenrecht & handelspraktijken.
Weijs, R.J. de
- Attorney Houthoff Buruma, Amsterdam, Financial Markets Group.
- Board Member NVRII/NACIIL (Nederlandse Vereniging voor
Rechtsvergelijkend en International Insolventierecht)
- Fellow Insolad.
- Member Insol Europe.
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13. Funds
Direct funding The research programme is funded, in the first place, by the direct funding
from the University (1e geldstroom). In addition, participating in the research
priority area Private and Public European law, the CSECL receives funds from
the university for a postdoctoral researcher for the project The Architecture of
Postnational rule making.
Research funding Moreover, the group applies constantly, where appropriate, for additional
public funding (2e en 3e geldstroom) from the NWO (including HIIL), FP7, the
European institutions et cetera. In particular, the framework contract with the
European Parliament has been renewed in April 2010. Also, submission of
new PhD projects to the MaGW Open Competition is mandatory and passing
the test of eligibility (i.e. admission to the second round) for a Veni scholarship
is a condition for a permanent position as an assistant-professor (universitair
docent) at the CSECL. In 2012 the CSECL received funding for:
- (from 1 August 2008 until 4 February 2012) The project National resistance
against Europeanisation of private law: a multi-disciplinary investigation into
the roles of nationalist ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers,
financed by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HIIL),
supported by NWO. Project leaders are prof. dr J.M. Smits en prof. dr M.W.
Hesselink.
- (from 1 April 2010 until 31 December 2014) The European Parliament
framework contract on European contract law, including consumer law, advice
through briefing papers financed by the European Parliament. Project leader
is prof. dr Martijn Hesselink.
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Receipts and expenditure of CSECL In K€; % of total receipts or expenditure 2012
RECEIPTS Direct funding K€ 1.204
% 98
Research funds NWO/HIIL K€ 0
% 0
EU K€ 0
% 0
Other / internal funds K€ 29
% 2
Total research funds K€ 29
% 2
Contract funding K€ 0
% 0
Other receipts K€ 0
% 0
TOTAL RECEIPTS 1233
EXPENDITURE Personnel costs direct
funding
K€ 1181
% 98
Material & travel costs direct
funding
K€ 0
% 0
Personnel costs research
funds
K€ 23
% 2
Material & travel costs
research funds
K€ 6
% 0
TOTAL EXPENDITURE 1210
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