European Private Law Working Group
The European Private Law Working Group has been established with the aim of providing a forum for researchers, fellows and professors willing to present and discuss their work. In order to meet the above-stated goal, the working group will organise guest lectures and workshops. In addition to this, the working group wishes to facilitate open discussion on European private law and especially recent developments in the field.
For the purposes of the working group, European private law should be understood in a broad sense, including branches of law such as contract and tort law, consumer protection law, unfair commercial practices, intellectual property law and commercial law, with special attention paid to the interrelationship between primary community law and private law, as well as private law and regulated markets. All of the above contribute to a greater understanding of the European private law system.
The group is grateful for the support of Prof. Hans-W. Micklitz .
We invite you to contact us if you are interested in private law and/or if you would like to present your research project in the framework of the European Private Law Working Group.
Calendar of Meetings in 2011
19 October 2011
Visiting Professor Martin Schmidt-Kessel
The Commission's Proposal for an Optional Instrument - a first view and some basic questions
Calendar of Meetings in 2010
29 March 2010
Barbara Warwas
The Role of Arbitral Institutions in the Creation and Ensuring the Efficiency of the Modern System of International Commercial Arbitration
15 March 2010
Julia Busko
Trade Mark Protection v Ambush Marketing: Limits of Event Mark Concept
03 March 2010
Ben Farrand
Protecting music, not markets: The conflict between copyright collecting societies and single market aims
08 February 2010
Dr. Valentina Calderai
Deconstructing the Canon. The uses of argument in the interpretation of contracts
Calendar of Meetings in 2009
07 December 2009
Paul Verbruggen
The Role of Private Regulation in EU Consumer Law: The Case of Advertising Standards
23 November 2009
Workshop
Unfair and misleading commercial practices–challenges in consumer protection (in collaboration with the FairSpeak Project Group, Copenhagen Business School)
Section 1
Unfair Commercial Practices (focus on the UCPD, with emphasis on the impacts of the VTB-judgement)
Speakers:
• Pr. Dr. Jules Stuyck, University of Leuven "The VTB-Judgment: "Much to do about nothing - but the real questions about the UCPD are still on the table."
• Associate Professor Jan Trzaskowski, Copenhagen Business School “A critical perspective on the VTB-judgement”
• Pr. Dr. Jochen Glöckner, University of Konstanz
• PhD student Marcin Rogowski, EUI “Sales promotion between aggressiveness and uncertainty - the VTB”
Section 2
Fair and unfair presentation of food (presentation of key results of the work carried out by the Danish Group, FairSpeak)
Speakers:
• Pr. Peter Møgelvang-Hansen, Copenhagen Business School “Methods of legal regulation and a study of Danish cases 2002-2007concerning misleading presentation of food”
• Associate Professor Viktor Smith, Copenhagen Business School “What's in a (food) name? From consumer protection to cognitive science - and back”
• Associate Professor Henrik Selsøe-Sørensen, Copenhagen Business
• School and Assistant Professor Jesper Clement, Copenhagen Business School “Eye-tracking consumers' visual attention: What do consumers actually look at on food labels?”
9 November 2009
Inaugural Session
Introductory and organizational remarks on the activities of the Working Group followed by a presentation of Jan-Jaap Kuipers on ‘'The Delimitation of the Scope of Directives in the International Arena - A Matter of Community Law?’