On 3 and 4 June the annual meeting of the Private Law Consortium took place in Tel Aviv, Israel. The first day of the conference was focused on Relational Private Law and Network Theory, the second day was more general: Studies in Private Law.
The four participants from ESL gave the following (paper) presentations:
- Martin de Jong, ‘Updating Legal Transplantation Theory based on Insights from Political Geography, Institutionalism and Policy Networks’
- Elena Kantorowicz-Reznichenko, ‘The Price of Creativity: An Experimental Investigation of Authors’ Remuneration Models’ (together with Jaroslaw Kantorowicz and Yifat Nahmias)
- Harriët Schelhaas, ‘Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Commercial Contract Law’
- Evert Stamhuis, ‘From Connection to Actor to Legal Subject’
The Private Law Consortium is an annual meeting bringing together scholars from a number of leading international law schools, including Bar-Ilan Law Faculty, Durham Law School, Erasmus School of Law, National University of Singapore Law School and Trento Law School. The primary goal of the project is to produce high-quality scholarship by facilitating the exchange of ideas and criticisms in the area of private law. Its secondary goal is to create and maintain a scholarly community committed to the study of private law and to strengthen the ties between the member schools.
The consortium supports the investigation of all areas of private law, including its traditional main categories of property, contracts, torts, and unjust enrichment, as well as other related topics such as intellectual property, commercial litigation, trusts, and remedies. It will also consider related topics such as private ordering and private normmaking. The consortium aims to further the study of these fields and of private law as a whole. It also encourages comparative and interdisciplinary work.
Next year, the meeting is organized by Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville (TN).
