Archive 2006
Topping-Out Ceremony at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg
On Monday, 27 February 2006 the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law on Mittelweg in Hamburg celebrated the topping-out of its newly expanded facilities. For the Insititute, the expansion is a significant step towards the continued fulfillment of its role as a center of foundational comparative research in European and international private law, economic law and procedural law.
At the beginning of 2005 a portion of the original building was dismantled and the excavation necessary for the expansion was completed. The structural work commenced in May 2005 is now, with the topping-out ceremony, by and large completed. By the end of the year the windows and facade as well as the interior work are also to be finished so that the requisite academic calm can reign once again throughout the Institute in the new year.
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law 22.02.2006
Symposium on Private Enforcement of European Competition Law to take place at the Institute on 6 and 7 April 2006
Shortly before Christmas 2005 the European Commission has published a Green Paper and a Commission Staff Paper on ‘Damages Actions for Breach of the EC Antitrust Rules’. The Commission considers legislative activities in this field situated at the borderline of competition law and tort law and has triggered a public consultation on the matter.
With a view to rendering the enforcement of competition law more effective and to contributing to the debate on the development of a European private law the Max Planck Institute in Hamburg will organise a symposium on April 6 and 7, 2006.
European Commission: Green Paper and Commission Staff Paper Programme
Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht 26.01.2006
Maastricht University Confers Honorary Doctorate on Professor Dr. Reinhard Zimmermann
Professor Dr. Reinhard Zimmermann, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg, was bestowed an honorary law doctorate by Maastricht University on 13 January. This occurred in recognition of his pathbreaking research in the field of European private law and comparative law as well as for his foundational contributions to the Europeanisation of the legal sciences. The conferral took place as part of the celebratory festivities marking the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the law faculty at Maastricht University.
Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law 16.01.2006