Category Archives: European Private Law
Giuseppe Mazziotti, ‘Music Creators’ Rights under EU Law’
ABSTRACT This Study examines music creators’ rights within the EU’s legislative framework, focusing on copyright harmonisation and its effects on fairness in the EU digital music market. It provides a comprehensive analysis of challenges facing music creators, covering the topics of Fair MusE’s Work Package 2 (‘Assessing the Role of Regulation’). Part I investigates the […]
Giuseppe Mazziotti, ‘Music Copyright Infrastructure’
ABSTRACT Between July and October 2025, Fair MusE carried out an intensive Task Force exercise under Work Package 5 of its three-year research programme into music repertoire data asymmetries, licensing practices, and creators’ rights to fair remuneration in the European music ecosystem. The Task Force brought together 35 senior external experts drawn from international and […]
Matthias Weller, ‘Mutual Trust’
ABSTRACT ‘Mutual trust’ has advanced to one of the most fundamental principles of judicial cooperation in civil and commercial matters and as such of both European civil procedural law and European private international law. In a first step after the Treaty of Amsterdam 1999 mutual trust has established itself as an explanatory and interpretative principle […]
Calum MacLaren, ‘Common and civil law approaches to tort-based corporate climate litigation: A comparative case law review’
ABSTRACT As corporate climate litigation intensifies globally, litigants consistently encounter the same procedural and substantive hurdles: duty of care, standing and causation. Success in navigating these hurdles has been sporadic, and most existing inquiry has sought to understand these trends according to geographical or case-type lenses. This article proposes a different framework, contending that grouping […]
Jütte and Ryszkowska, ‘European Parliament and House of Lords publish reports on AI and copyright: policy directions for artificial intelligence and copyright in the EU and the UK’
INTRODUCTION In early March 2026, the European Parliament (EP) and the UK House of Lords (HoL) both adopted reports on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). In a period when courts around the world grapple with elementary questions of unlicensed AI training and infringements by generative AI systems, the reports suggest ways forward to reconcile the […]
Tamar Zarandia, ‘Europeanisation of Georgian Private Law: Legal Reform and Future Development Through the Lens of Property Law Reception’
ABSTRACT This article examines the historical foundations, conceptual evolution, and contemporary development of Georgian private law through the lens of legal reception, focusing on property law. It begins by tracing the formation of Georgian legal culture, shaped over centuries by Byzantine, Eastern, and later Russian influences, and highlights the creative codification tradition exemplified in the […]
Dorota Wiśniewska, ‘Transformation of Property Relations in the Kingdom of Poland: Pre-Factory Private Property’
ABSTRACT This study delves into the socio-economic landscape of the Kingdom of Poland subsequent to its establishment in 1815 under the auspices of the Congress of Vienna, during which the Napoleonic Code of 1804 prevailed. Despite the legal framework, disparities persisted in property relations, wherein feudal ownership retained practical significance. Over time, societal and economic […]
Giesela Ruhl, ‘Cross-border Consumer Protection’
ABSTRACT Cross-border consumer transactions are essential to the functioning of the European Single Market. Yet, despite decades of European integration, consumers and businesses continue to face legal uncertainty arising from the coexistence of multiple national legal systems. Uncertainty regarding the applicable law, jurisdiction, and the enforcement of rights may discourage cross-border contracting and thereby undermine […]
Ludovica Lot, ‘Roman Law in the 20th Century: From the Crisis to the Recovery of the Western Legal Tradition’
ABSTRACT In this work I am going to discuss the role that Roman law has played within the academic environment throughout the 20th century. My analysis will focus primarily on the Italian and German scene, two nations that have tragically seen the rise of totalitarian regimes at the beginnings of the 1920s. Given the almost […]
Juan Manuel Klein, ‘Climate Change and Separation of Powers in European Human Rights Law: Why KlimaSeniorinnen has been Met with a Vigorous Separation of Power Criticism’
ABSTRACT While the judgement of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in KlimaSeniorinnen v Switzerland has been hailed by many as a landmark in climate change and human rights litigation, the response by Switzerland and many intervening parties has been less favorable. For instance, the Swiss legislative has been very critical in its review […]