“Two years ago the Faculty of Law at Maastricht University organised a series of events around the European Year of the Citizen. One event was co-organised by MEPLI and devoted to the role of private actors (citizens, consumers and companies) in private law. It is hardly a surprise that these private actors often set their own rules, revert to private enforcement and choose the applicable law. This is a well-known phenomenon in fields such as contract law, consumer law, company law and family law. Until now, however, few attempts have been made to look at these phenomena together with a view to arriving at conclusions that go beyond one specific field …” (more)
[Jan Smits, MEPLI, 10 September]
First posted 2016-09-12 06:25:13
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