Category Archives: European Private Law
Christina Lemke, ‘Value as Property: Private Law Integration of a Digital Currency’
ABSTRACT The European Union’s exploration of a central bank digital currency, the ‘digital euro’, marks a pivotal development in the evolution of digital money and monetary infrastructure. Envisioned as a new form of legal tender, issued by Eurosystem central banks and distributed by private intermedia ries, the digital euro raises fundamental legal questions both from […]
Andrea Molnár, ‘The Duty to Inform as a Principle in Private Law’
ABSTRACT The study aims to support the fact that the obligation to provide information is a defining principle of private law. It is an ancillary obligation present in obligations, especially in contracts, in addition to the main obligations. It participates as a building block in the development of life relationships, although such a role is […]
‘Conflict of Laws as Pedagogy’
Susanne Lilian Gössl, ‘“Mirin” and Beyond – Gender Identity, Domestic Private International Law, and Human Rights in the EU’, International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, available at SSRN (20 May 2025). Fights over gender identity have preoccupied American politicians in recent years. The dialogue surrounding these issues has not always been civil and […]
Stephan Mulders, ‘Risk and fundamental rights infringements as a form of “damage” per Article 82 GDPR’
INTRODUCTION In the Austrian Post case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) threw out the proverbial baby with the bathwater, deciding that the concept of ‘non-material damage’ in Article 82 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) must be interpreted uniformly according to EU law. Prior to this, the concept was mostly […]
Kharytonov and Kharytonova, ‘History of Codification in Private Law in Ukraine: Experience, Problems and Prospects’
ABSTRACT One of the initial methodological imperatives for studying private law in Ukraine is the understanding of law as a phenomenon inherent in Western European culture (civilisation), later adopted by countries belonging to other civilisations. The classical model of private law is recognised as Roman private law of the ‘classical era’, interpreted through the prism […]
Povlakić and Bećić, ‘Codification of Civil and Commercial Law in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Tradition, Transplantation, and Transition’
ABSTRACT The development of civil and commercial law in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been deeply shaped by its complex political history, spanning five key periods: Ottoman rule, the Austro-Hungarian administration, the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, socialist Yugoslavia, and the post-independence era. Civil law evolved through a blend of old legal traditions and the Austrian Civil Code, […]
Zoran Rašović, ‘The History of the Codification of Civil Law in Montenegro’
ABSTRACT The study analyzes five periods in the history of the codification of civil law in Montenegro, from the 19th century to the present. Until the second half of the 19th century, custom was the main ‘regulator’ of legal life. The rules created by long-standing customary practice in Montenegro were perceived in the people’s awareness […]
Dimitar Atanasov, ‘History of Private Law Codification in Bulgaria’
ABSTRACT This study traces the historical development of civil and commercial private law codification in Bulgaria from the nineteenth century to the present, situating it within the broader context of legal transplantation, nation-building, and modernization. It examines the pluralistic legal order under Ottoman rule, the influence of the Tanzimat reforms, and the early reception of […]
‘Deepfakes: Can you “copyright” a person?’
A bill to amend the Danish Copyright Act is currently under consultation. If adopted, it would introduce a self-standing and expanded protection for individuals whose likeness is reproduced in deepfakes. Until now, global protection against deepfakes has followed a general and fragmented pattern. Serious abuses – especially pornographic deepfakes – have typically been pursued under […]
Annual Conference on European Tort Law: Vienna, 8-10 April 2026
The Conference will commence on the evening of Wednesday, April 8, with an opening lecture by Helmut Koziol on ‘Rethinking the Law of Loss Allocation’. The programme will continue on Thursday, April 9, with a series of sessions highlighting the most significant recent developments in tort law from across a wide range of European jurisdictions. […]