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“On April 6th and 7th, 2017, the first German conference for young scholars interested in Private International Law took place at the University of Bonn. The general topic was ‘Politics and Private International Law (?)’. The conference was organized by Susanne Gössl, Bonn, and a group of doctoral or postdoctoral students from different universities …” (more)
[Jan von Hein, Conflict of Laws .net, 4 May]
First posted 2017-05-05 06:48:44
UEA campus is a short bus ride from Norwich’s historic city centre, which features a Norman castle and a cathedral surrounded by cobbled streets and medieval architecture … (more)
Queer theory and private law rarely interact. While queer theory has been applied to other fields, private law remains largely an unexplored territory. Yet queer analysis offers a particularly valuable lens … (more, registration)
The 2020s are becoming a pivotal decade for international environmental human rights law. Almost every major international human rights body has recently pronounced on the relationship between human rights and climate change (or is due to do so shortly). At the same time, there has been a rapid growth in theorising about the philosophical foundations of environmental human rights … (more)
An international conference to mark the retirement of Professor Charles Mitchell and to celebrate his work. Charles Mitchell is an outstanding legal scholar and colleague whose contributions to private law, and in particular, the law of trusts/equity and unjust enrichment, as well as to modern legal history, are well known … (more)
For those who would like to present their work, we welcome papers on any topic that may be of interest to teachers, scholars, and practitioners of transnational commercial law, broadly understood. We particularly welcome papers that will address the theme of this year’s conference … (more)
Private law has long presented itself as a domain of incremental development, doctrinal coherence, and principled reasoning. Yet contemporary pressures, including digital platforms and AI, climate change, mass harm events, financial innovation, and shifting conceptions of property, personhood, and responsibility, raise profound questions about the stability and adaptability of private law’s core concepts and doctrines … (registration)
This year’s theme is the impact of international trade law and dispute settlement on commercial contracts. Examples are shipping contracts, charterparties, long term investment contracts. The call for papers is open and included here … (more)
The aims of the conference are to provide academics with an informal and supportive environment in which to present work in progress, and to facilitate a collegial discussion of issues related to teaching and publishing in private and commercial law … (more, call for papers)
We welcome contributions which reflect a wide range of topics and approaches including doctrinal, theoretical, critical, empirical, reform and social justice, and pedagogical. We are particularly interested in providing opportunities for early career researchers and teachers to present their work and network with other colleagues … (more, call for proposals to present)
We welcome contributions on conflict-of-laws and international civil procedural law at the national, European, and international levels. The conference language is German; however, we also welcome warmly presentations in English … (more, call for papers)
The Obligations Conference brings together scholars and practitioners from across the common law world to discuss current issues in contract law, the law of torts, equity, unjust enrichment, and private law theory … (more)
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