"Privatrecht auf dem Weg nach Europa" Ceremony commemorating the publication of the Encyclopaedia of European Private Law
MPI for Private Law, Hamburg, 22.09.2009
The Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law and the association Rechtsstandort Hamburg e.V. invite you to a ceremony commemorating the release of the Handwörterbuchs des Europäischen Privatrechts (Encyclopaedia of European Private Law).For more than 20 years a body of private law has been developing within the European Union which has increasingly displaced the national private laws of the member states. The process, however, has pursued neither a systematic nor comprehensive course. Instead, short-term needs and considerations of a political nature have been the primary driving force behind these developments. The Handwörterbuch des Europäischen Privatrechts penetrates this thicket of law and organises it in a comprehensive compilation of 473 keyword articles ranging from Abschlussprüfer (Auditor), Dienstleistungsvertrag (Service Contracts) and Ehevertrag (Marital Agreements), and on to Patentrecht (Patent Law), Seeverkehr (Carriage of Goods by Sea) and Zwingendes Recht (Mandatory Law). Incorporating the historical and comparative dimensions, the individual entries analyse the European lines of development and also comprehensively cover all endeavours towards a European and international legal harmonisation. The result is a work unmatched in its scope and conceptual approach. Comprehensively portraying the whence and whither of European private law, the Encyclopaedia represents an indispensable reference work for legal scholars, practitioners and legislators alike.
The association Rechtsstandort Hamburg welcomes this comprehensive work as a valuable aid for all who are interested in European private law. Simultaneously, the publication stands as further proof of the innovative and creative energy centred at the Hamburg Max Planck Institute for Private Law.
Advance Registration Requested.
Date of publication: 07.09.2009
Language
German
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