ABSTRACT
It was the year 2000 when Sjef van Erp introduced me to Dutch, comparative and European Property Law. In his innovative course European Property Law, he was amongst the first property scholars to offer an undergraduate comparative property law course. I made more notes than for any other course in my degree and learned not only about the rules of property law, but especially about the underlying thought patterns of systems of property law.
With someone looking at this fundamental principle of property law this, in Sjef’s words, cleared the way for him to take a broader perspective. This led to his Walter van Gerven lecture in 2006 in which Sjef presented a method for analysis of property law systems into fundamental principles, ground rules and technical rules, and his contribution to the festschrift for Konstantin Kerameus in 2009, in which he introduced the framework for analysis in classical system of property law. At the same time, we collaborated with many others on the making of the Ius Commune Casebook on Property Law, that would become the standard work for comparative property lawyers in the years to come …
Akkermans, Bram, (Normative) Models of Property Law. Using Van Erp’s Framework to Advance Sustainable Property Law (May 12, 2021) in Bram Akkermans and Anna Berlee (eds), Sjef-Sache – Essays in Honour of Prof mr dr JHM (Sjef) van Erp on the Occasion of his Retirement (The Hague, Eleven International Publishing, 2021), pp 3-15.
First posted 2021-05-14 18:30:49
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