Second Max Planck Postdoc-Conference on European Private Law

19.05.2008

On 19 and 20 May 2008 the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg held the Second Max Planck Postdoc-Conference on European Private Law. Building on the widely-regarded first conference of 2006 as well as the ongoing series of Habilitandenkolloquien commenced in 1999, 18 junior researchers from across Europe were invited to present and discuss their current research. The conference was conducted in English and French. The goal of the conference was to foster exchange and encourage the development of an academic network among the junior scholars. At the same time, the conference promoted the work of the Institute as well as its renowned library.

The following themes were featured during two days of intense discussion:

Focus - Busines Law, Insurance Law and Banking Law

Peter Coussement „How Should Law Filter Distressed Firms?“
Yves Thiery “Discrimination and Insurance: Economic Efficiency and Actuarial Fairness as Limited by the Legal Principle of Equal Treatment”
Cristina Poncibo “ Shall we have a European Class Action?”
Ignacio Tirado „An Approach to the Most Problematic Matters Regarding Insolvency Administrators“
Mantha Varela „The Internal Liability of Companies Organized in Groups: The Response of European Laws with no Special Corporate Provisions“
Mette Winther Lofquist „Europeanization of Banking Law - A Legal Analysis of Methods for Regulation“

Focus - General Civil Law

Andreas Abegg „Compulsory Norms of Private Administrative Law, the Contracting State as a Challenge for Private Law“
Ágnes Dósa „Comparative Analysis of Medical Malpractice (Tort Law Problems)“
Teun Struycken „The Numerus Clausus in the Law of Property – Roots, Ratio and Rami-fications“
Paul de Plessis „The ‚Lease’ Paragdigm“
Helen Scott „Unjust enrichment in South African law: a renalysis of the South African law of enrichment by tranfer“
Eric Tjong Tjin Tai „Liability for Omissions in European Tort Law“
Carlos Gómez Ligüerre „Joint Several Liability in the Law of Torts“

Focus - Private International Law and Procedure

Petr Dobiaš „International Commercial Arbitration – New Trends“
Louis d`Avout “On the Solutions to Conflict of Laws in Real Property Matters”
Patrik Lindskoug „Electronic Commerce – Issues of Jurisdiction and Choice of Law“
Maciej Mataczynski „Mandatory Rules in Contractual Obligations in Private International Law“
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