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CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW

ANNUAL REPORT 2012

Universiteit van Amsterdam

CENTRE FOR THE STUDY OF EUROPEAN CONTRACT LAW

Postal address: P.O. Box 1030

1000 BA Amsterdam

Visitors address: Oudemanhuispoort 4-6

1012 CN Amsterdam

tel: + 31 (0)20 - 525 7347 fax: + 31 (0)20 - 525 3434 e-mail: [email protected]

ANNUAL REPORT 2012

1. Introduction………………………………………………………………………… 3 2. CSECL’s aim and research theme…………………………………………… 5 3. Research group…………………………………………………………………… 9 4. Organisation……………………………………………………………………….. 15 5. Joint research projects & collaborations……………………………… 17 6. Teaching……………………………………………………………………………… 25 7. PhD research……………………………………………………………………… 27 8. Publications………………………………………………………………………… 29 9. Societal impact…………………………………………………………………… 63 10. Conferences & seminars……………………………………………………… 67 11. Invited lectures……………………………………………………………………. 75 12. Other research activities……………………………………………………….. 81 13. Funds……………………………………………………………………………………. 85

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1. Introduction

The year 2012 was a year with many good results. The researchers of the

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) published several ‘A’

publications in leading international journals. Moreover, our researchers

published five books, i.e. The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization,

edited by Jaap Baaij; The Future of European Property Law, edited by Arthur

Salomons et al.; Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European

Framework, edited by Marco Loos, Chantal Mak et al.; Principles of European

law: Mandate Contracts, by Marco Loos and Odavia Bueno Díaz; and The

service provider's duty to warn about defects caused by third parties: A case

study on the precontractual and contractual duty to warn in English, German

and Dutch law and in the Draft Common Frame of Reference, by Joasia Luzak.

Furthermore, the CSECL organized three seminars. The topics were Private

law and nationalism, Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de

Europese Unie and (in cooperation with ACIL en ACELG) Postnational

Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy.

As to policy oriented research with an important societal impact, researchers

of the CESL produced two reports for the European Parliament, one on

Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply of digital content (by

Marco Loos and Chantal Mak) and another on Unfair Contract terms in B2C

Contracts (by Martijn Hesselink and Marco Loos).

Finally, in 2012 one public PhD defense took place. Guido Comparato

successfully defended his thesis on Nationalism and Private Law in Europe.

Amsterdam, March 2013

Martijn W. Hesselink

Director, Centre for the Study of European Contract Law

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2. CSECL’s mission and research themes

Mission The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) was founded in

January 2006 and forms part of the University of Amsterdam’s Research

Priority Area ‘Private and Public European Law’. The Centre aims to promote

high-quality research and education in the area of European contract law. Its

research programme focuses on the interplay between the European, national

and international laws of contract. Contract law is understood in a broad

sense, namely the law governing economic transactions in Europe.

General research theme The general research theme of our programme is European contract law. We

understand contract law here in a wide and functional sense, i.e. the law of

economic transactions. This includes both commercial and consumer

contracts, and both general and specific contract law. It also includes the

relevant aspects of general patrimonial law and the general law of obligations.

Moreover, it includes important aspects of property law and, albeit to a lesser

extent, of tort law. Finally, conflict of law rules are also included. European law

is understood here as the law that is applicable in the European legal space, i.e.

the interrelated laws produced by law makers operating at the national level

(e.g. the civil code, the common law), the European level (the acquis

communautaire) and the international level (e.g. the United Nations

Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods). Finally, law is

also understood here in a broad sense including not only ‘soft law’ but also the

‘context’ in which the ‘black letter’ rules operate. As a result, research will

often be multi-disciplinary combining insights from comparative legal

analysis, legal theory, political theory, economic analysis and other related

fields.

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Specific themes

Over the past two decades, European private law has developed into an

established field of academic research. Within that field we aim at innovative

specific lines of research. In 2012-2014, the focus will be, in particular, on

three specific themes, i.e. 1) EU private law integration and its effects on

national private laws; 2) property, publicity, priority; and 3) the legitimacy of

postnational private law.

1. EU private law integration and its effects on national private

laws (directed by Aukje van Hoek and Marco Loos) This theme deals with the impact of EU law on the national private laws

of the Member States. It addresses the interaction between national

and EU private law, with regard both to secondary EU law (i.e.

directives and regulations) and primary EU law (i.e. the founding

Treaties), in particular the internal market dimension. The focus will be

mainly, though not exclusively, on the specific areas of consumer law

and private international law.

Specific subjects of research include: the divergent interpretation of

general clauses and open-textured concepts in contract law, caused in

part by the multilingual character of European Union law; the spill-over

effects of specific directives and regulations within Member State law;

the (non-)compliance of national courts with rulings of the CJEU; the

coordination between national private law systems through internal

market law and EU private international law; and the consequences of

harmonization for the systematic character of private law and for the

ideal of codification.

For this research theme, use will be made in the first place of classical

legal analysis and comparative legal research, but also of insights from

(consumer-) behavioural law & economics and law & language. This

theme includes, in particular, the work of Jaap Baaij, Hugh Beale, Diana

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Dankers-Hagenaars, Bram Duivenvoorde, Aukje van Hoek, Jeroen

Kortmann, Candida Leone, Marco Loos, Joasia Luzak, Sacha Tamboer

and Gerard de Vries.

2. Property, publicity, priority (directed by Arthur Salomons) As property law forms no part of the proposed Common European

Sales Law, the debate on the harmonization of that part of patrimonial

law focuses on the question whether incorporation of proprietary

topics at a later stage or in a subsequent or other harmonisation

instrument would be a viable and desirable possibility. Within this

context, we will focus, in particular, on two topics: 1) justification for

proprietary entitlements (acquisition of proprietary entitlements; the

shape and extent of the protection of the titleholder and the

justification of these entitlements and their protection; and patrimonial

responsibility and priority); and 2) apparent entitlement (publicity

systems, clearing and settlement; publicity and priority; and good faith

purchase protection).

The research within this theme will be conducted both from both

doctrinal, comparative and theoretical perspectives. The first subtheme

will include the work of Arthur Salomons, Selma de Groot, and Rolef de

Weijs, the second that of Dewi Hamwijk and Arthur Salomons.

3. The legitimacy of postnational private law (directed by

Martijn Hesselink) This research theme follows up on a fruitful line of research, running

under the 2009-2011 research programme, entitled ‘European contract

law, social justice and democracy’. Moreover, the present theme is also

closely related, substantially and personally, to the joint research

project conducted by the CSECL together with the ACIL and the ACELG

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(directed by Deirdre Curtin, Martijn Hesselink and André Nollkaemper)

on ‘The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking’.

Within this theme, we will explore the political-philosophical

foundations of postnational private law, by analysing the implications

of leading theories of social justice for fundamental questions

concerning the Europeanisation and globalisation of private law. We

will address the normative question of legitimacy from the

perspectives of both law making (democracy) and outcomes (justice).

The question is whether there is anything special about postnational

private law in this respect: do the private and postnational law

dimensions make a difference from a legitimacy perspective?

In particular, we will focus our attention on: the legitimatory potential

of fundamental rights and general principles; the legitimacy of expert

involvement in the shaping of European private law; the geographical

locus where private law should be made (national, European or global);

the normative analysis of clashes between different legal orders and

legitimation (and its limits) through party autonomy (freedom of

contract, choice of law, optional instruments, non-mandatory rules).

In this context, thorough reflection on fundamental questions

concerning methodology plays an important role, not only as an

indispensable preliminary to high quality research, but also as an

object of research, for example in relation to methods of legal

comparison and to the idea of a developing common European legal

method.

This theme includes, in particular, the work of Marija Bartl, Martijn

Hesselink, Josse Klijnsma, Chantal Mak, Marieke Oderkerk and Lyn Tjon

Soei Len.

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3. Research group

The research staff consisted in 2012 of 12,39 full time equivalent (fte), of

which 4,33 fte was occupied by PhD candidates.

Director

Prof. dr Martijn Hesselink

Coordinator Dr Chantal Mak

Management Assistant Yvonne ter Horst LLM

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SENIOR RESEARCHERS

Prof. Hugh Beale

Contract (including European contract law) and commercial law.

Dr Odavia Bueno Díaz

European contract law; franchising contracts; empirical method.

Dr drs Diana Dankers-Hagenaars

The borderline of private and public law; question of codification; contract

law.

Prof. dr Martijn Hesselink

European private law, private law theory and legal methodology.

Prof. dr Aukje van Hoek

Private International Law and Civil Procedure.

Prof. dr Jeroen Kortmann

European tort law.

Prof. dr Marco Loos

Contract law, consumer law and European private law.

Dr Chantal Mak

European contract law, the constitutionalisation of this field of law and the

role of the judiciary in the harmonisation process.

Dr drs Marieke Oderkerk

General theory and methodology of comparative law, international family law.

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Prof. dr Arthur Salomons

Dutch and European property law.

Dr Gerard de Vries

Contract law.

JUNIOR RESEARCHERS

Jaap Baaij LLM

Legal translation, legal interpretation, comparative law and philosophy of

language.

Olga Falgueras del Alamo LLM

Harmonization of Insolvency Law at EU level.

Dr Joasia Luzak

Contract law, consumer law, consumer behaviour and European private law.

Dr Rolef de Weijs

European Property Law and Insolvency Law.

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POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCHERS

Marija Bartl LLM

Legitimacy in postnational constellations; the ‘market-re-embedding’ role of

private law in the postnational setting, and its link to the democracy in private

law debate; the constitutional aspects of (European) private law, and in

particular the correlation between social justice and democracy in European

Private Law.

Dewi Hamwijk LLM

The principle of publicity with regard to movable tangible assets.

Lyn Tjon Soei Len LLM

Private law theory broadly, and theoretical questions concerning the

relationship between theories of justice and contract (private) law and

questions concerning private autonomy and postnational lawmaking

specifically.

PhD CANDIDATES

Bram Duivenvoorde LLM

The notion of the ‘average consumer’ in European consumer law

Selma de Groot LLM

The interplay between the security transfer and the right of pledge

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Josse Klijnsma LLM

SMEs in European Contract Law: A Rawlsian Perspective

Candida Leone LLM Unfair terms in labour contracts

Rafal Manko LLM

Culture of Private Law in Poland: from Socialism to Europeanisation

Sacha Tamboer LLM

De klachtplicht bij non-conformiteit

EXTERNAL FELLOWS

Prof. dr Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci

The economic analysis of fundamental areas of the law, such as tort, contract,

property and litigation, as well as the evolution of law and legal institutions,

ancient law, and slavery.

Prof. dr drs Matthias Haentjens

Harmonisation of Securities Law, Custody and Transfer of Securities in

European Private Law.

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Dr Kai Purnhagen LL.M.

The interplay of law and regulation on regulated markets in Europe, in

particluar the role of systematisation within the emerging law of EU risk

regulation.

Dr Bas van Zelst

(Inter)national commercial arbitration, European consumer law, European

private law.

CSECL staff in fte

2012

Professor 2,09

(Senior) University Lecturer 3,30

PhD-student 4,33

Post-doc and researcher 2,67

Total research staff 12,39

Administrative staff 0,83

Total staff 13,22

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4. Organisation

Management Prof. dr Martijn W. Hesselink is Director of the Centre for the Study of

European Contract Law (CSECL). He is assisted by Coordinator dr Chantal Mak

and Management Assistant Yvonne ter Horst LLM.

The specific (three) themes within the research programme are led by the

senior researchers prof. dr Arthur Salomons, prof. dr Marco Loos, prof. dr

Aukje van Hoek and prof. dr Martijn Hesselink.

The CSECL consists of a diverse research group where researchers interact

with other researchers from different backgrounds in terms of nationality,

gender, education et cetera. By creating attractive positions for assistant

professors (more research time), occasionally in combination with the

possibility of a ‘tenure track’ to become associate professor, the CSECL has

managed to attract and retain talented researchers. We leave as much

autonomy as possible to individual researchers in expressing their creativity.

It is for them to develop their own research projects, to distribute their

research time over different activities such as writing more papers, reports for

European institutions, organising conferences, editing volumes et cetera as

long as they meet the publication requirements listed in the research

programme.

The CSECL actively searches for talented PhD students. All PhD positions are

widely advertised in the CSECL’s international networks. PhD students spend

some time at a foreign university (mostly at Harvard, Columbia, NYU and the

MPI in Hamburg). They are stimulated to develop their own research profiles

which are visibly distinct from that of the research leaders.

All researchers, including PhD students, participate in the Ius Commune

research school. Moreover, all researchers are facilitated to excel in their work

by showing confidence in their capacities to be innovative while at the same

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time showing a real interest in their ideas and projects.

Weekly meetings The Centre organises weekly meetings. These are dedicated, in turn, to paper

presentations by invited leading scholars from across the world (the bi-

weekly public ‘CSECL seminars’) and presentation and discussion of work in

progress of one of the group members (‘internal seminars’). In addition,

monthly lunch meetings are dedicated to the discussion of recent

developments in legislation, case law and literature; each topic is introduced

by one of the researchers.

Interaction with teaching The Master’s programme in European Private Law is directed and co-

ordinated and, for the most part, taught by members of our research group.

Students in that programme are invited to participate in CSECL seminars,

conferences, and, where possible, research.

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5. Joint research projects & collaborations

Several specific research projects by members of the CSECL research group

are carried out within the framework of one or more international

collaborations. The aim is to intensify and extend international collaboration

and exchange.

Advising the European Commission and Parliament The CSECL advises the European Commission and Parliament, which is

policy oriented research with an important societal impact:

EC Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of European

Contract Law

Prof. dr Martijn W. Hesselink and prof. dr Hugh Beale were appointed by

the European Commission as members of an Expert Group on a Common

Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law. The group's task

was to assist the Commission in the preparation of a proposal for a

Common Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law,

including consumer and business contract law, and in particular in:

selecting those parts of the Draft Common Frame of Reference which are

of direct or indirect relevance to contract law; and restructuring, revising

and supplementing the selected contents of the Draft Common Frame of

Reference, taking also into consideration other research work conducted

in this area as well as the Union acquis.

On 3 May 2011, after one year's work, the Expert Group published its

report ‘A European contract law for consumers and businesses:

Publication of the results of the feasibility study carried out by the Expert

Group on European contract law for stakeholders' and legal practitioners'

feedback’ which became the basis for the European Commission's

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proposal, published a few months later, for a regulation on Common

European Sales Law.

European Parliament framework contract European contract law, including

consumer law

In April 2010 the CSECL was assigned a tender on ‘European contract law,

including consumer law’, funded by the European Parliament. Members of

the research group provide their expertise on European contract law to

the Committee on Legal Affairs of the European Parliament in a form of

standard briefing notes and ad hoc briefing papers. This should

strengthen the Committee’s knowledge on the subject and enable her to

respond to proposals made by the European Commission and provide a

solid basis for some of the Committee’s own initiatives. The framework

contract will run until 31 December 2014.

In 2012 two ad hoc briefing papers were written for the European

Parliament. One paper on Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the

supply of digital content, by Prof. Marco Loos and Dr Chantal Mak and the

other on Unfair Contract terms in B2C Contracts by Prof. Martijn

Hesselink and Prof. Marco Loos. During the Workshop ‘Common European

Sales Law’ organized by the European Parliament the papers were

presented respectively on 19 June and 31 May.

The Common Core of European private Law (‘Trento Project’) The aim of this project is to establish common rules with respect to

certain fields of private law of the different members of the European

Union, although their methods of research are totally different.

CSECL is involved in the following initiatives:

Common Core: Interpretation of Commercial Contracts

In 2010 Jaap Baaij initiated and launched a new comparative legal study

for the Common Core of European Private Law. It is the most

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comprehensive comparative study on interpretation methods to date. In

2011 twenty-four legal scholars from fifteen European legal systems and

South-Africa joined as ‘national reporters’. In 2011 Jaap and his co-editors,

Laura Macgregor and David Cabbrelli, from the University of Edinburgh,

meticulously crafted a Questionnaire on the basis of which the national

reporters drafted their draft reports. These reports will be reviewed and

revised in 2012, after which the editors will commence their comparative

analyses. The full manuscript is expected to be finalized late 2013.

Common Core: Good Morals

In 2012, Chantal Mak together with Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi and Zeeshan

Mansoor (Groningen Centre for Law and Governance) initiated a new

comparative legal study for the Common Core project on the topic of ‘good

morals’. A questionnaire was drafted and set out among reporters in

nearly all EU Member States. The national reporters will send in their

answers mid-2013 and finalisation of the study is foreseen to take place in

2014.

European Law Institute The European Law Institute, founded in June 2011 as an entirely

independent organisation, aims to improve the quality of European law,

understood in the broadest sense. It seeks to initiate, conduct and

facilitate research, to make recommendations, and to provide practical

guidance in the field of European legal development.

Several members of the CSECL have become members of the European

Law Institute, after the conclusion of the Co-PECL project.

The Study Group on Social Justice in European Private Law Within the Social Justice Group CSECL researchers co-operate with

researchers of the Paris I, the London School of Economics, the European

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University Institute (Florence), the University of Helsinki, ZERP (Bremen),

the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz and the University of Catania. This

group conducts common research of social justice and regulatory

legitimacy within the European Contract Law.

The network on Private Law Theory The PLT initiative aims to constitute a network of scholars reflecting the

theoretical foundations and future developments of private law. The idea

was born spontaneously in 2009 among a transnational group of scholars.

PLT will build a forum for cross-cultural brainstorming what private law

could mean in the 21st century. PLT embraces different theoretical

backgrounds (liberal theory, social justice theory, deliberative theory,

systems theory, economic analysis, critical theory, deconstruction, etc.)

and different fields of law (contract law, property law, comparative law,

competition law, corporate law, IP law, etc.).

The Ius Commune Research School The CSECL cooperates with the Faculties of Law of the University of

Utrecht, the University of Maastricht, the Catholic University Leuven

(Belgium) and with individual researchers of the University Stellenbosch

(South Africa), the University of Edinburg (Scotland), the Free University

in Amsterdam, Tilburg University and the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Together with the University of Maastricht - Prof. Jan Smits – the CSECL

conducted the project National resistance against Europeanisation of

private law: a multi-disciplinary investigation into the roles of nationalist

ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers. The project was funded

by the Hague Institute for the Internalisation of law (HiiL), sponsored by

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). It started in

August 2008 and explored the resistance that exists against European

integration in the field of private law by looking at two reasons for such

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resistance: nationalist ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers.

It thus proposes an interdisciplinary approach in trying to answer one of

the most fundamental questions about unification of (private) law: what

explains national resistance against unification? In particular, this project

focuses on the role of two particular factors which can explain national

resistance, i.e. nationalist ideology (expressed in the guise of cultural and

economic arguments) and the behaviour of the actors to be affected by

legal unification. The answer to this question provides fundamental

insights into the best way in which an effective European integration of

law is to be achieved and what the role of the European and national

legislator in this respect should be.

PhD student Guido Comparato joined the CSECL to write a thesis about

the subject; Gary Low was a PhD student at the Maastricht team.

Guido finished his manuscript in September 2011 and then took up a post-

doc position in a research project on European private law of prof. Hans

Micklitz (European University Institute, Fiesole). Guido’s manuscript was

approved by his supervisors at the end of 2011. The PhD defense

successfully took place on 23 October 2012.

CSECL is partner of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in the Foundations of

European Law and Polity Research.

Furthermore, there are numerous international collaborations on an

individual basis with scholars from many leading European and American

universities including Harvard, EUI, LSE, Oxford and Sciences Po.

Locally, the CSECL collaborates with other academics outside the Faculty of

Law, especially with the Amsterdam Centre for Law and Economics (ACLE),

through joint research projects and seminars.

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Inside the Faculty CSECL participates in the Research Priority Area (RPA)

European Private and Public Law, launched formally in 2009. The RPA includes

three research groups, each with their own specific research programmes and

research centres (the Amsterdam Centre for European Law and Governance

(ACELG), the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) and the Centre for the

Study of European Contract Law (CSECL)). Although there are no common

research activities planned for the area as a whole, there have been important

collaborations between certain researchers from different groups. The most

prominent example is the project The Architecture of Post-National

Rulemaking: Views from Public International Law, European Public Law and

European Private Law that is directed by Deirdre Curtin (ACELG) and Martijn

Hesselink (CSECL) together with André Nollkaemper (Public International

Law) and which started on 1 January 2010. The project aims to provide new

reflections and insights into the discussion on the legitimacy of post-national

rulemaking starting from three distinct but in this project uniquely combined

legal perspectives. The main objective is to relate perspectives from public

international law, European public law and European private law on post-

national rulemaking and to examine through a new lens any legitimacy

concerns that may arise from the new arrangements. The project will further

develop a normative framework for the analysis of post-national rulemaking

applicable across all three areas. This will require theoretical work on the

concepts of rulemaking and legitimacy starting from the perspectives of the

three different areas of law.

After some time having been spent on reconciling concepts and defining

future activities, the project in 2011 experienced a powerful official start sign

with the organisation of a workshop entitled ‘Framing and Taming

Postnational Rulemaking. Views from Public International Law, European

Public Law and European Private Law’. The event, besides showing that the

project’s theme attracts intense interest, resulted in the formulation of a clear

mission statement, available on the project website that was also launched in

2011. In parallel with the move from the organisational to the content

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exemplified by the workshop, the regular project meetings focussed on the

discussion of project member’s papers and resulted in the publication of

working papers and regular papers.

Another successful international workshop took place in September 2012 and

brought together many distinguished legal scholars from different countries

and legal backgrounds to discuss ‘Postnational Rulemaking between Authority

and Autonomy’. Furthermore, an Architecture Dialogues series was set up, in

which leading scholars in the field are invited to enter into a dialogue with the

project members and reflect on issues pertaining to the project's theme. The

first installments of the Dialogues series took place in the second half of 2012

and attracted a diverse audience of scholars with expertise in international,

European and private law. The project meetings continued to provide space

for the discussion of project members’ papers.

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6. Teaching

Private law in Europe has undergone rapid transformation over the last two

decades. From being a branch of law that was hardly affected by European

Community (EC) legislation, it has become the object of a multitude of

harmonisation measures, to the point that the idea of a European civil code is

now a priority on the political agenda. This development has given rise to a

growing demand within the legal profession, within national and EC

institutions and in academic research for lawyers with a thorough

understanding of both existing European private law and the ongoing

Europeanisation process and its dynamics.

The Master's programme in European Private Law gives students a thorough

understanding of this developing multilevel system of private law in Europe.

Relevant insights from other disciplines such as Economics and Political

Science are integrated into the discussion of legal questions, thereby

broadening and deepening the debate.

The Master’s programme in European Private Law is directed and co-

ordinated and, for the most part, taught by members of our research group.

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7. PhD research

The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law supervises PhD students

and so-called JUDOOZ. PhD students are appointed during three years and

they have no teaching obligation, unless this is relevant to their research.

JUDOOZ are Junior researchers who are appointed during six years and who

teach 40% and conduct PhD research 60% of their appointment.

PhD students and JUDOOZ are supervised by a supervisor and co-supervisor.

They receive training offered by the Ius Commune research school and/or the

Faculty of Law. In addition they attend relevant conferences and the CSECL

seminars.

The CSECL actively searches for talented PhD students. All PhD positions are

widely advertised in the CSECL’s international networks. PhD students usually

spend some time at a foreign university (mostly at Harvard, Columbia, NYU

and the MPI in Hamburg). They are stimulated to develop their own research

profiles which are visibly distinct from that of the research leaders.

On 23 October 2012 at 14:00 Guido Comparato defended his PhD thesis

Nationalism and Private Law in Europe in the Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds

Voorburgwal 231, Amsterdam. Supervisor: Prof. dr M.W. Hesselink; Co-

supervisor: Dr C. Mak.

In 2012 the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law supervised 9 PhD

students, of whom 2 are JUDOOZ (Baaij and Tamboer). 2 PhD students whose

PhD appointment has expired (De Groot and Manko) are working on their

thesis and it is expected that they will finish it soon.

During the year 3 PhD appointments were turned into respectively 1

University Lecturer appointment (Baaij), and 2 post-doctoral appointments

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(Hamwijk and Tjon Soei Len). Also their theses are expected to be finished

soon.

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8. Publications

Scientific excellence The research group aims to play a leading role in the academic debate on

European contract law. In its first six years, the research group has

obtained a good international reputation in the field. The outcome of the

national research assessment exercise was satisfactory (score 4.75 out of

5.00). The aim for the next three years is to further improve both our

international reputation and our score in the national research assessment

exercise. In other words, the aim is scientific excellence. For that purpose,

we need to set ourselves ambitious targets.

In 2011, the Faculty adopted a Model for academic staff performance

criteria, which contains ‘standard requirements’. The standard

requirement is 90 points per 0.4 FTE every three years. The breakdown of

points allocated in the model is as follows:

• 30 points for a high-impact publication (indication; fewer points,

or in exceptional cases more, may be allocated depending on the

publication)

• 20 points for a ‘weighty’ publication

• 10 for a ‘lighter’ publication

• 60 points for monographs of 250 or more pages in refereed

funds

• 30 points for editing a book in a refereed fund

• 1-5 points for publication in a professional journal (depending

on the importance and length of the publication).

These are minimum requirements, which are mostly of a quantitative

nature. In light of its ambitions and its status as a university ‘centre of

excellence’ the CSECL adopts one additional requirement, which is related

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to the quality of our output: per 0.4 FTE each researcher has to publish two

‘high-impact publications’ (‘A publications’) every three years. In other

words, any number of ‘weighty’ or ‘lighter’ publications - much appreciated

as they may be as extra research output - cannot compensate for the

absence of two ‘high impact’ publications every three years. Rather than

stimulating the production of larger quantities of publications of modest

scientific impact, the CSECL thus underlines its scholarly ambitions by

striving for publications of the highest international quality and impact.

We define a ‘high-impact’ or ‘A’ publication as a publication in one of the

leading international journals in the field of European contract law. These

include the following ones:

American Journal of Comparative Law

Common Market Law Review

European Law Journal

European Review of Contract Law

European Review of Private Law

European Property Law Journal

Journal of Consumer Policy

Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht

/ The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law

Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht

Of course, also a publication in one of the top general American law

journals counts as an ‘A’ publication. Similarly, an interdisciplinary

publication in one of the leading journals in the related discipline counts as

an ‘A’ publication as well. A publication in a high-quality edited volume

published, after peer review, by Cambridge University Press, Oxford

University Press, Hart Publishing or an international publisher of equal

repute, also counts as an ‘A’ publication for the purposes of the minimum

requirement, but only once every three years. In other words, even a

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researcher that publishes in high-quality edited volumes has to publish in

an A journal at least once every three years.

Pursuant to the Faculty model, the quantitative production requirement for

junior researchers is lower, i.e. 60 points per 0.4 FTE every three years,

because they have no existing body of research to build upon. We translate

this into a requirement for junior researchers during their first three years

after having obtained their PhD, be it as a post-doctoral researcher or as an

assistant professor (UD), to publish one ‘A’ publication every three years

per 0.4 FTE.

For PhD candidates, our ambition is expressed in the requirement for them

to complete their doctoral theses within the agreed three year term. We do

not require any other publications from them. Although we certainly

stimulate them to pre-publish some of their (preliminary) findings, with a

view to ‘claiming’ their subject (visibility) and training their writing skills

(style, focus et cetera), the ultimate decision is with the PhD candidates

together with their supervisors.

Individual choice, creativity and ownership Research programmes should stimulate creativity, certainly not stifle it by

being too detailed or rigid. Therefore, we leave as much autonomy as

possible to individual researchers in expressing their creativity. It is for

them to develop their own research projects, to distribute their research

time over different activities such as writing more papers, reports for

European institutions, organising conferences, editing volumes et cetera.

As long as they meet the general faculty minimum publication

requirements and remain within the research theme, the only further

limitation to their choices is that they should have two ‘A’ publications

every three years.

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There is another dimension to this respect for and belief in the autonomy

of individual researchers. By adhering to the highest international

standards we avoid the risk of locking talented researchers into

idiosyncratic local preferences. Thus, their research achievements remain

‘portable’ in the sense that they will be easily acknowledged anywhere

should the researchers wish to pursue their careers elsewhere.

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Research output CSECL 2012 2012 Scientific publications

Book refereed 3

Book non-refereed 2

PhD-theses 1

Article refereed 26

Article non-refereed 5

Book chapter refereed 8

Book chapter non-refereed 22

Book editorship 8

External report 3

TOTAL 78

Professional publications Book 0

Article in journal 6

Book chapter 9

Book editorship 1

Annotation 16

Publication aimed at the general public 2

TOTAL 34

Other research output Presentations and lectures 43

Inaugural lectures and PHD-defenses 2

Editorships 12

Memberships 24

PhD-oppositions / supervisions 2

Organisation / chairships conferences 4

Other 26

TOTAL 113

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8.1 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

8.1.1 Books

A. Refereed

Beale, H.

- Mistake and Non-disclosure of Facts: Models for English Contract Law,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145 p.

- (together with M. Bridge, L. Gullifer and E. Lomnicka), The Law of Security

and Title-based Financing, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, lxiv +

821 p.

Bueno Díaz, O.

- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European

law, edited by Study Group on a European Civil Code [Principles of

European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier European law publishers /

Oxford University Press, 549 p.

Loos, M.B.M.

- (together with O. Bueno Díaz) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European




B. Non-refereed

Loos, M.B.M.

- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der

Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European

Framework [Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law

International, XVII + 284 p.

Mak, C.

- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, L. Pessers & B. van

der Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European

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Salomons, A.F.

- (tezamen met I.C. van der Vlies) Kunst, recht en beleid. - 2e duk., Den Haag:

Boom Juridische uitgevers, 290 p.

8.1.2 PhD-theses

Luzak, J.A.

- The service provider's duty to warn about defects caused by third parties. A

case study on the precontractual and contractual duty to warn in English,

German and Dutch law and in the Draft Common Frame of Reference, Den

Haag: Stichting Instituut voor Bouwrecht, 284 p.

8.1.3 Articles

A. International refereed

Comparato, C.

- The Long Shadow of the Volksgeist. Or: the Nationalist Dimension in

European Private Law Discourse, European Review of Contract Law (8), pp.

245-259.

Hamwijk, D.J.Y.

- The puzzling concepts of publicity and possession: to the heart of property

law, European Property Law Journal 1(2), pp. 299-316.

Hesselink, M.W.

- How to opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief comments on the

Commission's proposal for a regulation, European Review of Private Law

20(1), pp. 195-212.

- The Case for a common European Sales Law in an Age of rising

Nationalism, European Review of Contract Law 8(3), pp. 342-366.

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Hoek, A.A.H.

- CJEU- Pammer and Alpenhof – Grand Chamber 7 December 2012, joined

cases 585/08 and 144/09, not yet published, European Review of Contract

Law ( 1), pp. 93-107.

Kortmann, J.S.

- (together with C.R.A. Swaak) Private Antitrust Enforcement - Status Quo in

the Netherlands, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht , 81974.

Loos, M.B.M.

- Standard contract terms regulation in the proposal for a common

European sales law, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (4), pp. 776-

796.

Mak, C.

- Europe-building through private law. Lessons from constitutional theory,

European Review of Contract Law (3), pp. 326-341.

- Hedgehogs in Luxembourg? A Dworkinian Reading of the CJEU's Case Law

on Principles of Private Law and Some Doubts of the Fox, European Review

of Private Law 20(2), pp. 323-345.

Purnhagen, K.P.

- Principles of European Private Or Civil Law? – A Reminder of the

Symbiotic Relationship between the ECJ and the DCFR in a Pluralistic

European Private Law, European Law Journal 18 (6), pp. 844-867.

- Kein Rausch für Ausländer und andere europarechtliche Probleme, ius.full

(2/12), pp. 42-53.

- (together with Dennis-Jonathan Mann) The Nature of Union Citizenship

Between Autonomy and Dependency on (Member) State Citizenship - A

Comparative Analysis of the Rottmann Ruling, or: how to Avoid a

European Dred Scott Decision?, Wisconsin International Law Journal 29(3),

pp. 484-533.

Weijs, R.J. de

- (together with E.J.R. Verwey, C. Bärenz & R.M.A. Connell) Financing in

distress against security from an English, German and Dutch perspective:

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a walk in the park or in a mine field?, International Insolvency Law Review,

21(1), pp. 21-44.

- Harmonisation of European Insolvency Law and the need to tackle two

common problems: common pool and anticommons, International

Insolvency Review (21), pp. 67-83.

Zelst, B. van

- The proposed new Dutch Arbitration Act, International Arbitration Law

Review 18(3), pp. 75-80.

B. International non-refereed

Baaij, C.J.W.

- The EU policy on Institutional Multilingualism: Between Principles and

Practicality, Electronic Journal for Language & Law 1(1), at

http://www.languageandlaw.de

C. National refereed

Hoek, A.A.H.

- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law,

Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht (3), pp. 362-370.

- eDate advertising: de Europese oplossing voor het probleem van ‘libel

tourism’?, Ars Aequi (september), pp. 653-664.

- Het toepasselijk recht op arbeidsovereenkomsten in de zeevaart - Een

commentaar op HvJ EU 15 december 2011, zaak C-384/10,

Voogsgeerd/Navimer, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (7), pp.

245-251.

- De werkingssfeer van het BBA na het NUON arrest van de Hoge Raad –

Deel I: het arrest in context, Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid (12), pp. 5-9.

Kortmann, J.S.

- Rechters, advocaten en hookers: amuse, Ars Aequi 61(5), pp. 336-338.

Loos, M.B.M.

- De algemene voorwaarden-regeling in het voorstel voor een

Gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht: een vergelijking met het

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Nederlandse recht, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht (5), pp.

166-175.

- Rechtsgevolgen van onredelijk bezwarende bedingen in algemene

voorwaarden, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie

(6940), pp. 561-562.

- De totstandkoming en bedenktijdregeling van op afstand gesloten

energieleveringsovereenkomsten, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht &

Handelspraktijken (1), pp. 6-10.

Salomons, A.F.

- Nogmaals art. 3:105 BW: is een verbergende dief bezitter, houder of

‘gebrekkig bezitter’?, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie

(6921), pp. 199-205.

Weijs, R.J. de

- (tezamen met E.J.M. van Rijckevorsel-Teeuwen) Actio Pauliana en

notariële aansprakelijkheid; de notaris en het rechtsverkeer gezamenlijk

in het nauw, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie, pp. 215-

226.

Zelst, B. van

- Artikel 10:154 BW: een nieuwe benadering bij de bepaling van het recht

toepasselijk op de overeenkomst tot arbitrage?, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor

Burgerlijk Recht (18), pp. 115-120.

D. National non-refereed

Baaij, C.J.W.

- A Case for Formal Equivalence in EU Translation, Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn

Themis 6, pp. 278-287.

Kortmann, J.S.

- (tezamen met S. Tuinenga) Kroniek Civiele Rechtspraak

mededingingsrecht 2011, Markt en Mededinging 15(2), pp. 55-65.

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Vries, G.J.P.

- Het voorstel van de Europese Commissie voor een verordening

betreffende een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht, SEW, Tijdschrift

voor Europees en economisch recht 60(12), pp. 502-507.

Zelst, B. van - De gevolgen van vernietiging voor de overeenkomst tot arbitrage en de

herziening van artikel 1067 Rv., Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage (3).

8.1.4 Book chapters

A. International refereed

Baaij, C.J.W.

- Fifty Years of Multilingual Interpretation in the EU, in: L.M. Solan & P.M.

Tiersma (eds.), Oxford Handbook for Language and Law, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, pp. 217-231.

Beale, H.

- The draft academic common frame of reference and the ‘toolbox’, in: M.

Andenas and C.B. Andersen (eds.), Theory and Practice of Harmonisation,

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 115-128.

Hoek, A.A.H.

- (together with J. Kocken) The Netherlands, in: C. Esplugues Mota, J. L.

Iglesias & G. Palao (eds.), Civil and Commercial Mediation in Europe:

Volume 1, Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 491-513.

- (together with M. Houwerzijl) ‘Posting’ and ‘posted workers’ – The need

for clear definitions of two key concepts of the Posting of Workers

Directive, in: C. Barnard & M. Gehring with I. Solanke (eds.), Cambridge

Yearbook of European Legal Studies [Volume 14 2011-2012], Oxford: Hart

Publishing, pp. 419-452.

Manko, R.

- Quality of Legislation Following a Transition from Really Existing

Socialism to Capitalism: a Case Study of General Clauses in Polish Private

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Law, in: J. Rozenfelds (ed.), The Quality of Legal Acts and Its Importance in

Contemporary Legal Space, Riga: University of Latvia Press, pp. 540-561.

- Resistance towards the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland: the interaction

between the consumer acquis and a post-socialist legal culture, in: M.

Kenny & J. Devenney (eds.), European Consumer Protection: Theory and

Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 412-434.

Purnhagen, K.P.

- (together with H. Micklitz & G. Spindler) Analysis of the Legal System of

Consumer Protection Rules in E-Commerce in Germany and the EU, in:

K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Comparative

Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.

Beck/Hart/Nomos.

- Analysis of the Surveillance System of Consumer Protection Rules in E-

Commerce, in: K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A

Comparative Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.

Beck/Hart/Nomos.

B. International non refereed

Baaij, C.J.W.

- The Significance of Legal Translation for Legal Harmonization, in: C.J.W.

Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen

a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 1-24.

- Conclusions, in: C.J.W. Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal

Harmonization, Alphen a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 203-214.

Beale, H.

- The PECL and Consumer Remedies under the CESL, in: M.J. Bonell, M-L.

Holle & P.A. Nielsen (eds.), Liber Amicorum Ole Lando, Copenhagen: DJØF,

pp. 45-58.

Bueno Díaz, O.

- Commercial agency, franchise and distributorship in the DCFR, in: E.

Terryn, V. Sagaert & M. Storme (eds.), The Draft Common Frame of

Reference: national and comparative perspectives (Ius Commune:

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European and Comparative Law Series, volume 99), Antwerp/Oxford:

Intersentia, pp. 387-415.

Groot, S. de

- Three questions in relation to the scope of book IX DCFR, in: S. van Erp,

A.F. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property

Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers, pp. 137-151.

Haentjens, M.

- Between property law and contract law: the case of securities, in: S. van

Erp, A. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The future of European property

law, Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, pp. 165-181.

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law, in:

N. Lavranos, R. Kok et al (eds.), Hague Yearbook of international law

[Volume 24 2011], Leiden׀Boston: Martinus Nijhof Publishers, pp. 25-47.

Loos, M.B.M.

- Scope and application of the Optional Instrument, in: D. Voinot, J. Sénéchal

(eds.), Vers un droit européen des contrats spéciaux /Towards a European

Law of Specific Contracts, Gent: Larcier, pp. 117-150.

- Sales law in the DCFR, in: V. Sagaert, M. E. Storme, E. Terryn (eds.), The

DCFR: a national and comparative perspective,

Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, pp. 453-489.

- (together with I. Samoy) Introduction, in: I. Samoy & M.B.M. Loos (eds.),

Linked contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],


- (together with A.L.M. Keirse) The Optional Instrument and the Consumer

Rights Directive: alternative ways to a new ius commune in contract law,

in: A.L.M. Keirse & M.B.M. Loos (eds.), Alternative ways to Ius commune.

The Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],


- Conformity and Non-conformity of Digital Content, in: N. Helberger, L.

Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der Sloot (eds.), Digital

Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European Framework

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[Information Law Series, 28], The Hague: Kluwer Law International, pp.

81-111.

Luzak, J.A.

- Linked contracts and the construction sector: a builder's contractual

obligation to warn the client about a risk that might emerge from a

contract between the client and the designer, in: M.B.M. Loos & I. Samoy

(eds.), Linked Contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],

Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, 2012, pp. 55-78.

Mak, C.

- Fundamental rights and digital content contracts, in: N. Helberger, L.




131-147.

Manko, R.

- The Institutional Implications of the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland, in:

J.W. Rutgers (ed.), European Contract Law and the Welfare State,

Groningen: Europa Law Publishers, pp. 141-172.

Tjon Soei Len,L.K.L

- European Contract Law and the Capabilities Approach: On Distributive

Responsibility for Contract Law, in: N. Weidtmann, Y.M. Hölzchen, B. Hawa

(eds.), The Capability Approach on Social Order, Münster: LIT Verlag, pp.

132-148.

Zelst, B. van

- (together with M.L.S. Kalff) Dutch chapter on international insolvency, in:

Cross-Border Insolvency II. A guide to recognition and enforcement, London

(UK): INSOL International, pp. 179-182.

C. National refereed

-

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D. National non-refereed

Baaij, C.J.W.

- Rechtsvinding en taalrelativisme, in: G. Drosterij, red., Behulpzaam bij het

creëren van orde en vrede (niet gerechtigheid): opstellen voor Liesbeth

Huppes-Cluysenaer, eigen uitgave redacteur, pp. 56-64.

Kortmann, J.S.

- Meervoudige causaliteit: over alternativiteit bij daders én benadeelden, in

Causaliteitsperikelen, in: Preadvies voor de Vereniging voor

Aansprakelijkheids- en Schadevergoedingsrecht (VASR), Deventer: Kluwer,

pp. 31-61.

Loos, M.B.M.

- (tezamen met H.N. Schelhaas) Het Weens Koopverdrag en het

Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht: de positie van de commerciële

koper, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.

Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel

ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.

Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 83-97.

Oderkerk, A.E.

- (tezamen met L.M. Coenraad,) Internationale echtscheiding in Nederland

1964-2012, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk,

J.A. Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar.

Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de

Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische

uitgevers, pp. 83-97.

Weijs, R.J. de

- Harmonisatie versus competitie van insolventierecht en minimum

veiligheidsvoorschriften voor het Engelse insolventiebordeel, in: A.A.H.

van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier & J.W.

Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid

van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-

2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 189-201.

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8.1.5 Book editorships

Baaij, C.J.W.

- The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen a/d

Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 256 p.

Beale, H.

- Chitty on Contracts, 31st ed., Volume 1 - General Principles and Volume 2 -

Specific Contracts, London: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd. (General editor and

responsible for chapters 5-7, 26 and part of 43).

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- (tezamen met R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier & J.W.

Rutgers, Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van het

vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-2012),

Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.

Loos, M.B.M.

- (together with A.L.M. Keirse), Alternative ways to Ius commune. The

Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],

Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, 268 p.

- (together with I. Samoy), Linked contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum

series, 103], Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, xii+166 p.

- (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier &

J.W. Rutgers), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid


2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.

- (tezamen met A.L.M. Keirse, S.D. Lindenbergh & A.J. Verheij), Beter

Burgerlijk Recht, Deventer: Kluwer, 200 p.

Oderkerk, A.E.

- (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, J.A. Pontier &

J.W. Rutgers, Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van

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het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-


Purnhagen, K.P.

- E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Sino-German Comparative Analysis,

München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H. Beck/Hart/Nomos, 259 p.

Salomons, A.F.

- (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans), The Future of European

Property Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers.

8.1.6 External reports

Hesselink, M.W.

- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad hoc

briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs,

May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.

Loos, M.B.M.

- (together with M.W. Hesselink) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad

hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal

Affairs, May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.

- (together with C. Mak) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the

supply of digital content, ad hoc briefing paper for the European

Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, 25 p.

- (together with J.A. Luzak) Report on the transposition of consumer law

Directives in the Netherlands, for the EC Consumer Law Compendium,

European Commission’s project, March 2012 (http://www.eu-consumer-

law.org/).

Luzak, J.A.

- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Report on the transposition of consumer law



law.org/).

http://www.eu-consumer-law.org/




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Mak, C.

- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the


Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, Brussels:

European Parliament, 25 p.

8.2 PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

8.2.1 Books

-

8.2.2 Articles

A. International

Mak, C.

- Book review of H.-W. Micklitz (ed.), The Many Concepts of Social Justice in

European Private Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 488

p., Yearbook of European Law, pp. 516-523.

- Book review of A. Gatto, Multi-national Enterprises and Human Rights.

Obligations under EU Law and International Law (PhD thesis EUI,

Florence), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 352 p., Common

Market Law Review 49 (5), pp. 1799-1801.

Zelst, B. van

- Book review of C. Twigg-Flesner (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to

European Union Private law, Oxford: Cambridge University Press (2010),

380 p., European Law Journal 18 (2), pp. 331-332.

B. National

Loos, M.B.M.

- Van de redactie, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken

(1), p. 1.

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Luzak, J.A.

- The constructor’s duties to warn about design failures in the DCFR from a

Dutch perspective, Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht (197) , pp. 1097-1107.

Weijs, R.J. de

- Commentaar artikel 42 - 51 Faillissementswet, Groene Kluwer (losbladig),

125 p.

8.2.3 Book chapters

A. International

Loos, M.B.M.

- Cost and fee allocation in the Netherlands, in: M. Reimann (ed.), Cost and

fee allocation in civil procedure [Ius Gentium, 11],

Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, pp. 219-227.

- Preface to this volume, in: M.B.M. Loos & O. Bueno Díaz, Mandate

Contracts, Principles of European law, edited by Study Group on a European

Civil Code [Principles of European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier

European law publishers / Oxford University Press, p. XII.

Salomons, A.F.

- (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans) Preface, in: S. van Erp, A.F.

Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property Law,

Munich: sellier european law publishers, pp. v-vi.

B. National

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- Verordening (EG) Nr. 593/2008 inzake het recht dat van toepassing is op

verbintenissen uit overeenkomst (Rome I) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der

Heijden, J.M. van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar

Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 873-895.

- Verdrag inzake het recht dat van toepassing is verbintenissen uit

overeenkomst (EVO) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M. van Slooten

& E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer,

pp. 895-898.

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- Verordening (EG) Nr. 44/2001 betreffende de rechterlijke bevoegdheid,

de erkenning en de tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in burgerlijke en

handelszaken (EEX-Verordening) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M.

van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht,

Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 915-935.

Loos, M.B.M.

- Overeenkomsten tot levering van digitale inhoud, in: A.L.M. Keirse, S.D.

Lindenbergh, M.B.M. Loos & A.J. Verheij (eds.), Beter Burgerlijk Recht,


Oderkerk, A.E.

- Ontbinding van het huwelijk, in: Th.M. de Boer & F. Ibili (eds.), Nederlands

internationaal personen- en familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 133-151.

- Verordening (EG) Nr. 2201/2003 betreffende de bevoegdheid en de

erkenning en tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in huwelijkszaken en

inzake de ouderlijke verantwoordelijkheid, en tot intrekking van

verordening (EG) nr. 1347/2000 (Brussel II bis)(Uittreksel), Tekst en

Commentaar Personen- en Familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer 2012, pp. 2453-

2555.

8.2.4 Book editorships

Dankers-Hagenaars, D.L.M.T.

- (tezamen met M.B.M. Loos) Jurisprudentie aansprakelijkheidsrecht &

contractenrecht 2012/2013 (Boom jurisprudentie en documentatie), Den

Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 547 p.

Loos, M.B.M.

- (tezamen met D.L.M.T. Dankers-Hagenaars) Jurisprudentie

aansprakelijkheidsrecht & contractenrecht 2012/2013 [Boom

jurisprudentie en documentatie], Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers,

547 p.

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8.2.5 Annotations

Dankers-Hagenaars, D.L.M.T.

- Noot bij Rechtbank Arnhem (28-09-2011), Rechtspraak

Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht (1), 4, pp. 21-23.

- Noot bij Hoge Raad (16-12-2011), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en

Verzekeringsrecht (3), 26, pp. 273-275.







- Noot bij de Hoge Raad (25-05-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en


- Noot bij Rechtbank Amsterdam (13-06-2012), Rechtspraak


- Noot bij Rechtbank ‘s Gravenhage. (08-13- 2012), Rechtspraak


Loos, M.B.M.

- Noot bij Hoge Raad (09-12-2011), (Schriftelijkheidsvereiste bij de koop

van woningen door particulieren, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk

Recht (4), pp. 131-136.

- Noot bij Hof Leeuwarden (21-02-2012), (LJN BV6422: X/Apart Meubel- en

Interieurbouw), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken

(4), nr. 20, pp. 175-177.

- Noot bij Rechtbank Utrecht (11-04-2012), Tijdschrift voor

Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken (5), pp. 230-232.

- Noot bij Hof van Justitie (14-06-2012), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht

& Handelspraktijken (6), pp. 285-290.

Luzak, J.A.

- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union, (Who should bear the

risk of the removal of the non-conforming goods? Joined cases C-65/09

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and C-87/09 (Weber and Putz)), Zeitschrift für Europäisches

Unternehmens- und Verbraucherrecht (1), pp. 35-40.

- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union (15-03-2012), (Unfair

commercial practice ≠ unfair contract term ≠ void contract), Ars Aequi (6),

pp. 428-432.

- Noot bij Hof van Justitie, (Wie draagt het risico van verwijdering van een

non-conform goed? Bespreking van de uitspraken van het Hof van Justitie:

nr. C-65/09 (Weber) en nr. C-87/09 (Putz)), Tijdschrift voor


Zelst, B. van

- Noot bij Raad van Arbitrage voor de Bouw (30-11-2011), (Overeenkomst

tot arbitrage in algemene voorwaarden), nr. 71.614, Tijdschrift voor

Bouwrecht (95).

8.2.6 Articles in newspaper

Tjon Soei Len, L.K.L.

- Prostituee Josje is niet anders dan Remy Bonjasky en verdient hetzelfde

respect, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 26 October 2012 [Op-ed on political liberalism

and the criminalization of prostitution].

- Als Apple consument is het nu toch wat ongemakkelijk naar je bureaublad

kijken, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 13 February 2012 [Op-ed on the immorality

and invalidity of contracts for goods made in sweatshops.].

8.3 PUBLICATIONS PER STAFF MEMBER

Baaij, C.J.W. (University Lecturer; 0,50 fte)

- The Significance of Legal Translation for Legal Harmonization, in: C.J.W.

Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen

a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 1-24.

- Conclusions, in: C.J.W. Baaij (ed.), The Role of Legal Translation in Legal

Harmonization, Alphen a/d Rijn: Kluwer Law International, pp. 203-214.

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- Rechtsvinding en taalrelativisme, in: G. Drosterij, red., Behulpzaam bij het

creëren van orde en vrede (niet gerechtigheid): opstellen voor Liesbeth

Huppes-Cluysenaer, eigen uitgave redacteur, pp. 56-64.

- The EU policy on Institutional Multilingualism: Between Principles and

Practicality, Language & Law 1(1), at http://www.languageandlaw.de

- A Case for Formal Equivalence in EU Translation, Rechtsgeleerd Magazijn

Themis 6, pp. 278-287.

- Fifty Years of Multilingual Interpretation in the EU, in: L.M. Solan & P.M.

Tiersma (eds.), Oxford Handbook for Language and Law, Oxford: Oxford

University Press, pp. 217-231.

- Editor: The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonization, Alphen a/d

Rijn: Kluwer Law International, 256 p.

Beale, H. (Distinguished Professor; 0,08 fte)

- Mistake and Non-disclosure of Facts: Models for English Contract Law,

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 145 p.

- (together with M. Bridge, L. Gullifer and E. Lomnicka), The Law of Security

and Title-based Financing, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, lxiv +

821 p.

- The draft academic common frame of reference and the ‘toolbox’, in: M.

Andenas and C.B. Andersen (eds.), Theory and Practice of Harmonisation,

Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 115-128.

- General editor and responsible for chapters 5-7, 26 and part of 43: Chitty

on Contracts, 31st ed., Volume 1 - General Principles and Volume 2 - Specific

Contracts, London: Sweet & Maxwell Ltd.

- The PECL and Consumer Remedies under the CESL, in: M.J. Bonell, M-L.

Holle & P.A. Nielsen (eds.), Liber Amicorum Ole Lando, Copenhagen: DJØF,

pp. 45-58.

Bueno Díaz, O. (University Lecturer; 0,28 fte)

- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European




- Commercial agency, franchise and distributorship in the DCFR, in: E.

Terryn, V. Sagaert & M. Storme (eds.), The Draft Common Frame of

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Reference: national and comparative perspectives (Ius Commune:

European and Comparative Law Series, volume 99), Antwerp/Oxford:

Intersentia, pp. 387-415.

Comparato, G.

- The Long Shadow of the Volksgeist. Or: the Nationalist Dimension in

European Private Law Discourse, European Review of Contract Law (8), pp.

245-259.

Dankers, D.L.M.T. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,24 fte)

- Boekredactie: (tezamen met M.B.M. Loos) Jurisprudentie

aansprakelijkheidsrecht & contractenrecht 2012/2013 (Boom

jurisprudentie en documentatie), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers,

547 p.

- Noot bij Rechtbank Arnhem (28-09-2011), Rechtspraak










- Noot bij de Hoge Raad (25-05-2012), Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en


- Noot bij Rechtbank Amsterdam (13-06-2012), Rechtspraak


- Noot bij Rechtbank ‘s Gravenhage. (08-13- 2012), Rechtspraak


Groot, S. de (PhD Student; 0,00 fte)

- Three questions in relation to the scope of book IX DCFR, in: S. van Erp,

A.F. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property

Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers, pp. 137-151.

53

Haentjens, M. (External Fellow; 0,00 fte)

- Between property law and contract law: the case of securities, in: S. van

Erp, A. Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The future of European property

law, Munich: Sellier European Law Publishers, pp. 165-181.

Hamwijk, D.J.Y (PhD Student; 0,42 fte; post-doc 0,58 fte)

- The puzzling concepts of publicity and possession: to the heart of property

law, European Property Law Journal 1(2), pp. 299-316.

Hesselink, M.W. (Professor; 0,70 fte)

- How to opt into the Common European Sales Law? Brief comments on the

Commission's proposal for a regulation, European Review of Private Law

20(1), pp. 195-212.

- The Case for a common European Sales Law in an Age of rising

Nationalism, European Review of Contract Law 8(3), pp. 342-366.

- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad hoc

briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs,

May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.

Hoek, A.A.H. van (Professor; 0,33 fte)

- CJEU- Pammer and Alpenhof – Grand Chamber 7 December 2012, joined

cases 585/08 and 144/09, not yet published, European Review of Contract

Law ( 1), pp. 93-107.

- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law,

Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht (3), pp. 362-370.

- eDate advertising: de Europese oplossing voor het probleem van ‘libel

tourism’?, Ars Aequi (september), pp. 653-664.

- Het toepasselijk recht op arbeidsovereenkomsten in de zeevaart - Een

commentaar op HvJ EU 15 december 2011, zaak C-384/10,

Voogsgeerd/Navimer, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees Recht (7), pp.

245-251.

- De werkingssfeer van het BBA na het NUON arrest van de Hoge Raad –

Deel I: het arrest in context, Tijdschrift Recht en Arbeid (12), pp. 5-9.

- Managing legal diversity – new challenges for private international law, in:

N. Lavranos, R. Kok et al (eds.), Hague Yearbook of international law

[Volume 24 2011], Leiden׀Boston: Martinus Nijhof Publishers, pp. 25-47.

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- (together with J. Kocken) The Netherlands, in: C. Esplugues Mota, J. L.

Iglesias & G. Palao (eds.), Civil and Commercial Mediation in Europe:

Volume 1, Cambridge: Intersentia, pp. 491-513.

- (together with M. Houwerzijl) ‘Posting’ and ‘posted workers’ – The need

for clear definitions of two key concepts of the Posting of Workers

Directive, in: C. Barnard & M. Gehring with I. Solanke (eds.), Cambridge

Yearbook of European Legal Studies [Volume 14 2011-2012], Oxford: Hart

Publishing, pp. 419-452.

- Boekredactie: (tezamen met R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.

Pontier & J.W. Rutgers), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter

gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.

Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.

- Verordening (EG) Nr. 593/2008 inzake het recht dat van toepassing is op

verbintenissen uit overeenkomst (Rome I) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der

Heijden, J.M. van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar

Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 873-895.

- Verdrag inzake het recht dat van toepassing is verbintenissen uit

overeenkomst (EVO) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M. van Slooten

& E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht, Deventer: Kluwer,

pp. 895-898.

- Verordening (EG) Nr. 44/2001 betreffende de rechterlijke bevoegdheid,

de erkenning en de tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in burgerlijke en

handelszaken (EEX-Verordening) (Uittreksel), in: P.F. van der Heijden, J.M.

van Slooten & E. Verhulp (red.), Tekst en Commentaar Arbeidsrecht,


Kortmann, J.S. (Professor; 0,08 fte)

- (together with C.R.A. Swaak) Private Antitrust Enforcement - Status Quo in

the Netherlands, Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht , 81974.

- Rechters, advocaten en hookers: amuse, Ars Aequi 61(5), pp. 336-338.

- (tezamen met S. Tuinenga) Kroniek Civiele Rechtspraak

mededingingsrecht 2011, Markt en Mededinging 15(2), pp. 55-65.

- Meervoudige causaliteit: over alternativiteit bij daders én benadeelden, in

Causaliteitsperikelen, in: Preadvies voor de Vereniging voor

Aansprakelijkheids- en Schadevergoedingsrecht (VASR), Deventer: Kluwer,

pp. 31-61.

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Loos, M.B.M. (Professor; 0,40 fte)

- Standard contract terms regulation in the proposal for a common

European sales law, Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht (4), pp. 776-

796.

- De algemene voorwaarden-regeling in het voorstel voor een

Gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht: een vergelijking met het

Nederlandse recht, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk Recht (5), pp.

166-175.

- Rechtsgevolgen van onredelijk bezwarende bedingen in algemene

voorwaarden, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie

(6940), pp. 561-562.

- De totstandkoming en bedenktijdregeling van op afstand gesloten

energieleveringsovereenkomsten, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht &

Handelspraktijken (1), pp. 6-10.

- (together with O. Bueno Díaz) Mandate Contracts, Principles of European




- Scope and application of the Optional Instrument, in: D. Voinot, J. Sénéchal

(eds.), Vers un droit européen des contrats spéciaux /Towards a European

Law of Specific Contracts, Gent: Larcier, pp. 117-150.

- Sales law in the DCFR, in: V. Sagaert, M. E. Storme, E. Terryn (eds.), The

DCFR: a national and comparative perspective,


- (together with I. Samoy) Introduction, in: I. Samoy & M.B.M. Loos (eds.),

Linked contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],


- (together with A.L.M. Keirse) The Optional Instrument and the Consumer

Rights Directive: alternative ways to a new ius commune in contract law,

in: A.L.M. Keirse & M.B.M. Loos (eds.), Alternative ways to Ius commune.

The Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],


- Conformity and Non-conformity of Digital Content, in: N. Helberger, L.



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81-111.

- (tezamen met H.N. Schelhaas) Het Weens Koopverdrag en het

Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht: de positie van de commerciële

koper, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.

Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel

ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.

Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 83-97.

- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, C. Mak, L. Pessers & B. van der

Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European



- (together with M.W. Hesselink) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad

hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal

Affairs, May 2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.

- (together with C. Mak) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the


Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, 25 p.

- (together with J.A. Luzak) Report on the transposition of consumer law



law.org/).

- Editor: (together with I. Samoy), Linked contracts [Ius Commune

Europaeum series, 103], Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia,

xii+166 p.

- Editor: (together with A.L.M. Keirse), Alternative ways to Ius commune. The

Europeanisation of private law [Ius Commune Europaeum, 105],

Cambridge/Antwerp/Portland: Intersentia, 268 p.

- Redactie: (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A.

Pontier & J.W. Rutgers), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter

gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J.

Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, 201 p.

- Redactie: (tezamen met A.L.M. Keirse, S.D. Lindenbergh & A.J. Verheij),

Beter Burgerlijk Recht, Deventer: Kluwer, 200 p.

- Van de redactie, Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken

(1), p. 1.



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- Cost and fee allocation in the Netherlands, in: M. Reimann (ed.), Cost and

fee allocation in civil procedure [Ius Gentium, 11],

Dordrecht/Heidelberg/London/New York: Springer, pp. 219-227.

- Overeenkomsten tot levering van digitale inhoud, in: A.L.M. Keirse, S.D.

Lindenbergh, M.B.M. Loos & A.J. Verheij (eds.), Beter Burgerlijk Recht,


- Preface to this volume, in: M.B.M. Loos & O. Bueno Díaz, Mandate

Contracts, Principles of European law, edited by Study Group on a European

Civil Code [Principles of European Law 10], Munich/Oxford: Sellier

European law publishers / Oxford University Press, p. XII.

- Boekredactie: (tezamen met D.L.M.T. Dankers-Hagenaars) Jurisprudentie

aansprakelijkheidsrecht & contractenrecht 2012/2013 [Boom

jurisprudentie en documentatie], Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers,

547 p.

- Noot bij Hoge Raad (09-12-2011), (Schriftelijkheidsvereiste bij de koop

van woningen door particulieren, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk

Recht (4), pp. 131-136.

- Noot bij Hof Leeuwarden (21-02-2012), (LJN BV6422: X/Apart Meubel- en

Interieurbouw), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht & Handelspraktijken

(4), nr. 20, pp. 175-177.

- Noot bij Rechtbank Utrecht (11-04-2012), Tijdschrift voor


- Noot bij Hof van Justitie (14-06-2012), Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht

& Handelspraktijken (6), pp. 285-290.

Luzak, J.A. (University Lecturer; 0,50 fte)

- Linked contracts and the construction sector: a builder's contractual

obligation to warn the client about a risk that might emerge from a

contract between the client and the designer, in: M.B.M. Loos & I. Samoy

(eds.), Linked Contracts [Ius Commune Europaeum series, 103],


- Dissertation: The service provider's duty to warn about defects caused by

third parties. A case study on the precontractual and contractual duty to

warn in English, German and Dutch law and in the Draft Common Frame of

Reference, Den Haag: Stichting Instituut voor Bouwrecht, 284 p.

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- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Report on the transposition of consumer law



law.org/).

- The constructor’s duties to warn about design failures in the DCFR from a

Dutch perspective, Tijdschrift voor Bouwrecht (197) , pp. 1097-1107.

- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union, (Who should bear the

risk of the removal of the non-conforming goods? Joined cases C-65/09

and C-87/09 (Weber and Putz)), Zeitschrift für Europäisches

Unternehmens- und Verbraucherrecht (1), pp. 35-40.

- Annotation Court of Justice of the European Union (15-03-2012), (Unfair

commercial practice ≠ unfair contract term ≠ void contract), Ars Aequi (6),

pp. 428-432.

- Noot bij Hof van Justitie, (Wie draagt het risico van verwijdering van een

non-conform goed? Bespreking van de uitspraken van het Hof van Justitie:

nr. C-65/09 (Weber) en nr. C-87/09 (Putz)), Tijdschrift voor


Mak, C. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,60 fte)

- Europe-building through private law. Lessons from constitutional theory,

European Review of Contract Law 8(3), pp. 326-341.

- Hedgehogs in Luxembourg? A Dworkinian Reading of the CJEU's Case Law

on Principles of Private Law and Some Doubts of the Fox, European Review

of Private Law 20(2), pp. 323-345.

- Fundamental rights and digital content contracts, in: N. Helberger, L.




131-147.

- (together with N. Helberger, L. Guibault, M.B.M. Loos, L. Pessers & B. van

der Sloot) Digital Consumers and the Law - Towards a Cohesive European



- (together with M.B.M. Loos) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the




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Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, Brussels:

European Parliament, 25 p.

- Book review of H.-W. Micklitz (ed.), The Many Concepts of Social Justice in

European Private Law, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 488

p., Yearbook of European Law, pp. 516-523.

- Book review of A. Gatto, Multi-national Enterprises and Human Rights.

Obligations under EU Law and International Law (PhD thesis EUI,

Florence), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing (2011), 352 p., Common

Market Law Review 49 (5), pp. 1799-1801.

Manko, R.T. (PhD Student; 0,00 fte)

- The Institutional Implications of the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland, in:

J.W. Rutgers (ed.), European Contract Law and the Welfare State,

Groningen: Europa Law Publishers, pp. 141-172.

- Quality of Legislation Following a Transition from Really Existing

Socialism to Capitalism: a Case Study of General Clauses in Polish Private

Law, in: J. Rozenfelds (ed.), The Quality of Legal Acts and Its Importance in

Contemporary Legal Space, Riga: University of Latvia Press, pp. 540-561.

- Resistance towards the Unfair Terms Directive in Poland: the interaction

between the consumer acquis and a post-socialist legal culture, in: M.

Kenny & J. Devenney (eds.), European Consumer Protection: Theory and

Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 412-434.

Oderkerk, A.E. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,49 fte)

- (tezamen met L.M. Coenraad,) Internationale echtscheiding in Nederland

1964-2012, in: A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk,

J.A. Pontier & J.W. Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar.

Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid van het vijftigjarig bestaan van de

Studiekring ‘Prof.Mr. J. Offerhaus’ (1962-2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische

uitgevers, pp. 83-97.

- (tezamen met A.A.H. van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, J.A. Pontier &

J.W. Rutgers) Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid



- Ontbinding van het huwelijk, in: Th.M. de Boer & F. Ibili (eds.), Nederlands

internationaal personen- en familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer, pp. 133-151.

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- Verordening (EG) Nr. 2201/2003 betreffende de bevoegdheid en de

erkenning en tenuitvoerlegging van beslissingen in huwelijkszaken en

inzake de ouderlijke verantwoordelijkheid, en tot intrekking van

verordening (EG) nr. 1347/2000 (Brussel II bis)(Uittreksel), Tekst en

Commentaar Personen- en Familierecht, Deventer: Kluwer 2012, pp. 2453-

2555.

Purnhagen, K.P. (External Fellow; 0,00 fte)

- Principles of European Private Or Civil Law? – A Reminder of the

Symbiotic Relationship between the ECJ and the DCFR in a Pluralistic

European Private Law, European Law Journal 18 (6), pp. 844-867.

- Kein Rausch für Ausländer und andere europarechtliche Probleme, ius.full

(2/12), pp. 42-53.

- (together with Dennis-Jonathan Mann) The Nature of Union Citizenship

Between Autonomy and Dependency on (Member) State Citizenship - A

Comparative Analysis of the Rottmann Ruling, or: how to Avoid a

European Dred Scott Decision?, Wisconsin International Law Journal 29(3),

pp. 484-533.

- (together with H. Micklitz & G. Spindler) Analysis of the Legal System of

Consumer Protection Rules in E-Commerce in Germany and the EU, in:

K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Comparative


Beck/Hart/Nomos.

- Analysis of the Surveillance System of Consumer Protection Rules in E-

Commerce, in: K.P. Purnhagen (ed.), E-Commerce in China and Germany – A

Comparative Sino-German Analysis, München/Oxford/Baden-Baden: C.H.

Beck/Hart/Nomos.

- Coordinating Editor: E-Commerce in China and Germany – A Comparative


Beck/Hart/Nomos, 259 p.

Salomons, A.F. (Professor; 0,30 fte)

- Nogmaals art. 3:105 BW: is een verbergende dief bezitter, houder of

‘gebrekkig bezitter’?, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie

(6921), pp. 199-205.

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- (tezamen met I.C. van der Vlies) Kunst, recht en beleid. - 2e druk, Den Haag:

Boom Juridische uitgevers, 290 p.

- Editor: (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans), The Future of European

Property Law, Munich: Sellier european law publishers.

- (together with S. van Erp, & B. Akkermans) Preface, in: S. van Erp, A.F.

Salomons & B. Akkermans (eds.), The Future of European Property Law,

Munich: sellier european law publishers, pp. v-vi.

Tjon Soei Len, L.K.L. (Post-doc; 1,00 fte)

- European Contract Law and the Capabilities Approach: On Distributive

Responsibility for Contract Law, in: N. Weidtmann, Y.M. Hölzchen, B. Hawa

(eds.), The Capability Approach on Social Order, Münster: LIT Verlag, pp.

132-148.


respect, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 26 October 2012 [Op-ed on political liberalism

and the criminalization of prostitution].


kijken, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 13 February 2012 [Op-ed on the immorality

and invalidity of contracts for goods made in sweatshops.].

Vries, G.J.P. (Senior University Lecturer; 0,40 fte)

- Het voorstel van de Europese Commissie voor een verordening

betreffende een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht, SEW, Tijdschrift

voor Europees en economisch recht 60(12), pp. 502-507.

Weijs, R.J. de (University Lecturer; 0,41 fte)

- (together with E.J.R. Verwey, C. Bärenz & R.M.A. Connell) Financing in

distress against security from an English, German and Dutch perspective:

a walk in the park or in a mine field?, International Insolvency Law Review,

21(1), pp. 21-44.

- Harmonisation of European Insolvency Law and the need to tackle two

common problems: common pool and anticommons, International

Insolvency Review (21), pp. 67-83.

- (tezamen met E.J.M. van Rijckevorsel-Teeuwen) Actio Pauliana en

notariële aansprakelijkheid; de notaris en het rechtsverkeer gezamenlijk

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in het nauw, Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie, pp. 215-

226.

- Commentaar artikel 42 - 51 Faillissementswet, Groene Kluwer (losbladig),

125 p.

- Harmonisatie versus competitie van insolventierecht en minimum

veiligheidsvoorschriften voor het Engelse insolventiebordeel, in: A.A.H.

van Hoek, R.J.Q. Klomp, M.B.M. Loos, A.E. Oderkerk, J.A. Pontier & J.W.

Rutgers (eds.), Offerhauskring vijftig jaar. Jubileumbundel ter gelegenheid


2012), Den Haag: Boom Juridische uitgevers, pp. 189-201.

Zelst, B. van (External Fellow; 0,00 fte)

- Artikel 10:154 BW: een nieuwe benadering bij de bepaling van het recht

toepasselijk op de overeenkomst tot arbitrage?, Nederlands Tijdschrift voor

Burgerlijk Recht (18), pp. 115-120.

- De gevolgen van vernietiging voor de overeenkomst tot arbitrage en de

herziening van artikel 1067 Rv., Tijdschrift voor Arbitrage (3).

- The proposed new Dutch Arbitration Act, International Arbitration Law

Review 18(3), pp. 75-80.

- Noot bij Raad van Arbitrage voor de Bouw (30-11-2011), (Overeenkomst

tot arbitrage in algemene voorwaarden), nr. 71.614, Tijdschrift voor

Bouwrecht (95).

- Book review of C. Twigg-Flessner (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to

European Union Private law, Oxford: Cambridge University Press (2010),

380 p., European Law Journal 18(2), pp. 331-332.

- (together with M.L.S. Kalff) Dutch chapter on international insolvency, in:

Cross-Border Insolvency II. A guide to recognition and enforcement, London

(UK): INSOL International, pp. 179-182.

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9. Societal impact

Societal relevance of CSECL’s research Part of CSECL’s research aims at societal impact, in particular on the European

and the national law maker, in the areas affected by European law. Here too,

we build on our experience and contacts established under the previous

programme. The typical research output here consists of reports, briefing

notes and oral presentations at hearings in the European Parliament, for the

European Commission, and for the national legislator. Another example is the

membership of expert groups. Obviously, there is a close connection between

fundamental and applied research. Indeed, any meaningful input for law

makers depends on the knowledge acquired and expertise developed in the

context of our fundamental research.

Reports - Hesselink, M.W. & M.B.M. Loos, Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, ad hoc

briefing paper for the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, May

2012, PE 425.452, 19 p.

- Loos, M.B.M. & C. Mak, Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply

of digital content, ad hoc briefing paper for the European Parliament’s

Committee on Legal Affairs, May 2012, PE 462.459, 25 p.

- Loos, M.B.M. & J.A. Luzak, Report on the transposition of consumer law



law.org/).

Hearings - Hoek, A.A.H. van (22 March 2012) Working conditions of posted workers, legal

aspects, Brussels, Hearing on the difficulties with the enforcement of the

Directive on the Posting of Workers in the European Parliament.



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- Hesselink, M.W. & M.B.M. Loos (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in B2C

contracts, Brussels (Belgium), workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’,

organized by the European Parliament.

- Loos, M.B.M. (19 June 2012) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the

supply of digital content, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European

Sales Law’, organised by the European Parliament.

Invited lectures A. International

Baaij C.J.W.

- (26-27 January 2012) The Role of Comparative Legal Analysis in EU

Translation, Luxembourg/Brussels, the European Commission.

- (15 November 2012) Managing Diverging Language Versions, Brussels, the

European Council.

Bartl, M.

- (13 September 2012) The Democratisation of Expertise, Rome (Italy), SISP

Conference 'In the knowledge we trust?'.

Hesselink, M.W. & M.B.M. Loos

- (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in B2C contracts, Brussels (Belgium),

workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’, organized by the European

Parliament.

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- (22 March 2012) Working conditions of posted workers, legal aspects, Brussels,

Hearing on the difficulties with the enforcement of the Directive on the

Posting of Workers in the European Parliament.

Loos, M.B.M. & C. Mak

- (19 June 2012) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply of digital

content, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’,

organised by the European Parliament.

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Mak, C.

- (9 November 2012) The DCFR and commercial contracts. An uncommon frame

of reference?, Warsaw (Poland), DCFR moot court.

B. National

Hesselink, M.W.

- (7 februari 2012) Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht, Hof

Amsterdam, lezing.

- (14 september 2012) Kiezen voor het gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht,

Universiteit Gent, studiedag ‘ Het nieuw Europees kooprecht gewikt en

gewogen’.

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- (21 juni 2012) Grensoverschrijdende Arbeid Lex Lumen, Nijenrode University

Breukelen, masterclass.

Press & News media Tjon Soei Len, L.K.L.


respect, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 26 October 2012 [Op-ed on political liberalism and

the criminalization of prostitution].


kijken, Volkskrant.nl, Op-ed 13 February 2012 [Op-ed on the immorality and

invalidity of contracts for goods made in sweatshops.].

Stakeholders meetings Loos, M.B.M.

- (5 June 2012) Stakeholder’s meeting European Commission on Package travel

(influencing possible change of the directive on Package travel).

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Other research activities Dankers, D.L.M.T.

- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Gerechtshof Amsterdam.

Hesselink, M.W.

- Honorary judge Court of Appeal of Amsterdam.

- Member European Law Institute.

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Den Bosch.

- (together with Joris Kocken, UvA/Groningen) National expert in the EU

project Removing obstacles to access to (e)Justice through mediation in Europe:

ensuring enforcement and a smooth cooperation with judicial and non-judicial

authorities.

Loos, M.B.M.

- Rechter-plaatsvervanger Rechtbank 's-Hertogenbosch.

- Member College of Experts, Central Bureau for the Acquisition of Funding

(CBF).

Mak, C.

- Board member Bregstein Stichting.

Oderkerk, A.E.

- Board member Amsterdam Centre for Children’s Rights.

- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Amsterdam.

Salomons, A.F.


- Secretaris M.H. Bregstein Stichting.

Weijs, R.J. de

- Fellow Insolad.

- Member Insol Europe.

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10. Conferences & seminars

Conferences

Seminar ‘Private law and nationalism', Amsterdam, 3 February 2012

What is the relation between national private law

orders and nationalism? What are the prospects for

the further development of European private law in an

age characterised by a re-emergence of nationalist

attitudes throughout Europe? In order to find answers to these questions, the

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law organised a seminar on

‘Private Law and Nationalism’, in the framework of the research project

National resistance to Europeanisation of private law financed by the HiiL.

Introduced by a stimulating editorial by Grundmann on the opportunity and

features of an Optional European Private Law, the papers presented at the

Amsterdam seminar were published in a special issue of the European Review

of Contract Law (2012, Volume 8, Number 3).

Symposium 'Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de

Europese Unie', Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012

On Wednesday 29 February 2012, the Centre for the

Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) organized a

symposium (in Dutch) about the European

Commission’s proposal for a Common European Sales

Law at the Bethaniënklooster in Amsterdam. Experts on private law discussed

the merits of the proposal in general as well as of rules proposed for specific

topics. In particular, the implications for Dutch contract law were examined.

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Conference ‘Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy’,

Amsterdam, 20 & 21 September 2012

The project 'Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy' took

effect after a workshop in September 2011, which guided its development. A

year later, the research group again wished to engage with its peers. During

the Conference both empirical and normative approaches to the project

themes were explored, gathering contributions from the three fields of law

that compose the project (public international law, European public law and

European private law).

CSECL seminar series

Prof. Takis Tridimas (Queen Mary, University of London)

6 February 2012

The scope of application of General Principles: Bold Rulings and Fine

Distinctions

The purpose of the presentation was to discuss developments in two

areas: First, recent rulings of the ECJ on the scope of application of the

general principles of law and the Charter (Zambrano, MacCarthy,

Kücükdeveci and some national rulings); and secondly, the horizontal effect of general

principles revisiting older cases (e.g. VW golden shares) and recent rulings

(Dominguez).

Ingemar Strandvik (Quality Manager, the European Commission's

Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), Brussels)

27 February 2012

Translating the Common European Sales Law into 23 Language Versions: Business as

Usual?

Organised together with the Amsterdam Circle for Law and Language (ACLL).

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Based on input from translators in various language departments who were

consulted for this presentation, the speaker discussed some of the provisions of the

proposal for a Common European Sales Law to illuminate terminological choices

made, difficulties encountered and other matters relevant to the role of translation in

the legislative procedure.

Cristina Amato (University of Brescia, Italy)

5 March 2012

Financial investors as consumers in a European perspective

This lecture dealt with protections of investors in the Italian legislation and within a

European context. First, the definition of ‘investors’ as consumers was discussed in

detail in the European as well as in the Italian legislation. Secondly, the effectiveness

of excessive private remedies was questioned in case they are not buttressed by a

consistent and rational framework. An efficient protective system should first

seriously enforce public remedies available (criminal sanctions and fines); secondly,

it should simplify remedies and access to justice through the establishment of a

hierarchy of remedies.

Vincent Sagaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

26 March 2012

Contractualization of ownership

During this seminar, the effects of contractualization of

ownership was discussed. Traditionally, civil law comprises a

rigid concept of ownership, rooted in the feudal period, with

essential features: (1) exclusivity, (2) perpetuity and (3) absoluteness of ownership.

Exclusivity and perpetuity are at stake in trust-like devices, since trusts make an

ownership subject (‘inferior’) to the contractual arrangement of the parties. The

speaker submitted that the hostility of the civil law towards trust is rooted into the

traditional anti-feudal concept and posed the question if, nevertheless, minds are

changing.

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Prof. Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University)

2 April 2012

Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law

Many private law scholars strive to divine broad unified

normative theories of property, contracts, torts, and

restitution (or, at times, even of private law as a whole).

These monist accounts suggest that one regulative principle guides the various

doctrines of these complex legal fields or that, even if more than one value shapes a

given field, there is one particular balance of such values that guides the entire

terrain. Notwithstanding the intuitive appeal of such structural monism, this Essay

calls for a pluralist turn in private law theory and argues that a structurally pluralist

and moderately perfectionist understanding provides a better account of private law

generally and of property law more particularly.

Prof. Mattias Kumm (NYU School of Law)

23 April 2012

Constitutionalism and the Moral Point of Constitutional

Pluralism: Institutional Civil Disobedience and Conscientious

Objection

What are the assumptions underlying the claim the

European legal practice can be described as both "pluralist" and "constitutional"?

What are the circumstances under which such pluralism - as opposed to hierarchical

integration - is attractive? What specific structure should this pluralism have in order

for it to best realize its moral point? Kumm argued that the moral point of the specific

structure of pluralism in Europe is to create space for institutional civil disobedience

and conscientious objection as a response to structural constitutional deficiencies of

the larger more encompassing legal order and discusses the jurisprudential

assumptions and normative implications of such an understanding of constitutional

pluralism.

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Prof. Neil Komesar (University of Wisconsin Law School)

7 May 2012

The Essence of Economics: Behavior, Choice and Comparison -

Essay One 'The Basic Thesis with Lessons from the Economic

Analysis of the Common Law

The failure to account for the parallel movements of

institutions has deformed the economic analysis of law and public policy by focusing

on the wrong issues and on the wrong margins of inquiry. Without comparative

institutional analysis, the economic analysis of institutional choice is largely empty

and the remarkable insights about institutional behavior provided by economic

analysis are wasted. This is the first in a series of essays attempting to correct this

problem. It sets out an approach to understanding and comparing institutions based

on the dynamics of participation, an approach already inherent in most economic

analysis. This essay then shows the problems created by the failure to employ this

approach in a comparative institutional manner by examining economic analysis of

law in general and the efficiency of the common law in particular.

Prof. Gareth Davies (VU Centre for European Legal Studies)

2 July 2012

Horizontal Effect of Free Movement and its Impact on the

Freedom of Contract

Prof. Ianika Tzankova (Tilburg University)

24 September 2012

Class actions and settlements and litigation culture: facts and figures or

unmything myths

Professor Ianika Tzankova and Professor Deborah Hensler are

collaborating on a paper they plan to write for an European Law

Journal in which they will present existing empirical research with

respect to US class action and settlements and of the empirical research that they

conducted with regard to the Dutch Act on Collective Settlements (WCAM). The

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existing empirical research does not support the claim that class actions and

settlements lead to an excessive litigation culture.

Prof. Franz Werro (Georgetown University, Washington, USA)

8 October 2012

The Impact of ECJ Case Law on National Private Law and some

Provisional Thoughts on the Development of European Contract Law

The seminar addressed, first, selected aspects of ECJ case law and of its

impact on national private law, paying particular attention to Swiss

case law. It then assessed the proposal for a Common European Sales

Law and its alleged failure to unify contract law in Europe.

Prof. Janneke Gerards (Radboud University of Nijmegen)

12 November 2012

The European Court of Human Rights and the national courts – giving

shape to the notion of ‘shared responsibility’

This seminar was based on a report aiming to illuminate how and to

what extent the European Court of Human Rights obliges national

courts to adopt its argumentative methods and principles, to what

degree and by which means it respects national sensitivities and traditions, and how

it responds to national criticism (either of a political or of a judicial nature). Special

focus is thereby placed on the notion of ‘shared responsibility’ for safeguarding the

Convention and the notion of judicial dialogue. During the seminar, the need for such

notions was discussed and their meaning was further explored. Moreover, it was

discussed how the Court uses a variety of interpretative approaches to bolster

judicial dialogue and ‘shared responsibility’, and to what extent the Court’s use of

these approaches is successful.

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Dr Constanze Semmelmann (University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)

17 December 2012

The case against a new general principle of EU law : The prohibition of abusive

practices

The presentation was part of a larger research project on the role of comparative law

in the context of the possible recognition of a new general principle that aims at

combating abusive practices in EU law. Constanze Semmelmann collected arguments

against the recognition of a general principle of prohibiting abusive practices in EU

law. To begin with, she explored the notion of principle from a legal theoretical and

EU law point of view and discussed various problems relating to the recognition of a

principle of prohibiting abusive practices in EU law such as its source-quality and the

controversial need to create a separate category of norms. Subsequently, she set out

the additional difficulties linked to the generality of a given principle both in an

abstract manner and also in relation to the prohibition of abusive practices. An

overall appraisal showed that the recognition of a principle of prohibiting abusive

practices in EU law could be justified at least to an extent, whereas its generality has

rightly been dealt with great caution in the most recent court cases.

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11. Invited lectures

International Baaij C.J.W.

- (26-27 January 2012) The Role of Comparative Legal Analysis in EU

Translation, Luxembourg/Brussels, the European Commission.

- (26-27 April 2012) The Method for Comparing Interpretation, Edinburgh

(UK), ‘Symposium on Interpretation of Contract’, organized by Edinburgh

Centre for Commercial Law, University of Edinburgh.

- (21-22 June 2012) Legal Translation and the ‘Contamination’ of

Comparative Legal Research, Canterbury, International Conference

‘Comparative Law: Engaging Translation’, organized by Kent Centre for

European and Comparative Law and Kent Law School.

- (15 November 2012) Managing Diverging Language Versions, Brussels, the

European Council.

- (30 November – 1 December 2012) Can Legal Definitions in Different

Languages refer to the Same 'Common' Legal Concepts?, Torino,

International Conference ‘Pragmatic Issues in Legal Translation – From

the Different Language Versions of the DCFR to the CESL Proposal’,

organized by Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law, University of

Torino.

- (20 December) EU Legal Translation and the Assumption of Imperfect

Translation, seminar, Düsseldorf, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsselfdorf,

Philosophische Fakultät

Bartl, M.

- (17 May 2012) Contesting Legality, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri,

Turin (Italy), Conference ‘Transnational Societal Constitutionalism’.

- (23 May 2012) Legitimacy of the Common European Sales Law, Maastricht

European Private Law Institute, lecture.

- (13 September 2012) The Democratisation of Expertise, Rome (Italy), SISP

Conference 'In the knowledge we trust?'.

- (20 September 2012) The Democratisation of Expertise? On Normative

Requirements for the Involvement of Expertise in Policy Making in the EU.

Lessons from European private Law, Amsterdam, Conference ‘Postnational

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Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy’, organized within the

framework of the project 'The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking'.

- (27 September 2012) Subsidiarity as a Tool of Democratic Governance in

the EU: On Setting the Goals, Choosing the Means and Countering Biases,

Helsinki, Conference 'Democracy and Law in Europe'.

Comparato, G.

- (3 February 2012) The long shadow of the Volksgeist, Amsterdam, Seminar

'Private law and nationalism'.

Hesselink, M.W.

- (3 February 2012) Post-nationalism and a European legal space,

Amsterdam, Seminar 'Private law and nationalism'.

- (10 May 2012) The broader picture: the place of a common European sales

law within the world of private law, Rome (Italy), Conference 'The Making

of European private law: why, how, what, who’, organised by Università

degli studi Roma Tre.

- (together with M.B.M. Loos) (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in B2C

contracts, Brussels (Belgium), workshop ‘Common European Sales Law’,

organized by the European Parliament.

- (together with D.M. Curtin & P.A. Nollkaemper) (21 September 2012)

Conclusion: Views from International Public Law, European Public Law and

European Private Law, Amsterdam, Conference 'Postnational Rulemaking

between Authority and Autonomy', organised within the framework of the

project 'The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking'.

- (8 November 2012) Private Law Principles, Pluralism and Perfectionism,

Stockholm (Sweden), Conference ‘General Principles of EU Law and

European Private Law’, organized by the Swedish Network for European

Legal Studies.

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- (22 March 2012) Working conditions of posted workers, legal aspects,

Brussels, Hearing on the difficulties with the enforcement of the Directive

on the Posting of Workers in the European Parliament.

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Kortmann, J.S.

- (15 October 2012) European Private Remedies, invited professor, Fordham

Law School New York (USA).

Loos, M.B.M.

- (3 April 2012) Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen im Gemeinsamen

Europäischen Kaufrecht, Würzburg (Germany), Symposium Zeitschrift für

Europäisches Privatrecht.

- (11 May 2012) Standard terms in the proposal for a Common European

Sales Law, Rome (Italy), Symposium ‘The making of European Private

Law: why, how, what, who’.

- (together with M.W. Hesselink) (31 May 2012) Unfair contract terms in

B2C contracts, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European Sales

Law’, organised by the European Parliament.

- (19 June 2012) Remedies for buyers in case of contracts for the supply of

digital content, Brussels (Belgium), Workshop ‘Common European Sales

Law’, organised by the European Parliament.

Luzak, J.A.

- (18 May 2012) Towards a European Re-definition of National Concepts of

Damage, Houston (US), Teaching Consumer Law Conference.

- (9 October 2012) Privacy notice for dummies? - Towards European

guidelines on how to give ‘clear and comprehensive information’ on the use

of cookies in order to protect the internet user’s right to online privacy,

Amsterdam, Amsterdam Privacy Conference.

Mak, C.

- (3 February 2012) Private law and European constitutionalism,

Amsterdam, Seminar 'Private law and nationalism', within the framework

of the HIIL/NWO project 'National resistance against Europeanisation of

private law: a multi disciplinary investigation into the roles of nationalist

ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers’.

- (28 April 2012) In defence of CESL, Chicago (USA), Conference ‘European

contract law: A law-and-economics perspective’.

- (17 September 2012) Fundamental Rights in European Contract Law, Oslo

(Norway), annual seminar for Norwegian PhD researchers.

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- (21 September 2012) Fundamental Rights as Deliberative Principles in

Transnational Private Law, Amsterdam, Conference on Postnational

Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy, organized within the

framework of the project 'The Architecture of Postnational Rulemaking'.

- (26 October 2012) European private law values as sources of fundamental

rights, Maastricht, conference ‘EU law in the private sphere’.

- (27 October 2012) Europe-building through private law. Individual

interests, judicial deliberations and the common good, Groningen,

conference ‘Public policy, good morals and social justice in European

private law’.

- (9 November 2012) The DCFR and commercial contracts. An uncommon

frame of reference?, Warsaw (Poland), DCFR moot court.

- (3 December 2012) A matter of principle? Coordinating EU and national

contract laws, University of Oslo (Norway), workshop ‘The future of

European contract law’.

Manko, R.

- (24 April 2012) ‘Principles of social coexistence’ in Polish legal culture:

The rise and fall of a general clause and its consequences for legal

practices, Lund (Sweden), conference ‘The Normative Anatomy of Society:

Relations Between Norms and Law in the 21st Century’.

- (15 September 2012) Weeds in the Gardens of Justice? Legal Survivals as a

Symptom in Polish Legal Culture, Stockholm (Sweden), conference

‘Gardens of Justice. Critical Legal Conference 2012’.

- (4 October 2012) Quality of Legislation Following a Transition from Really

Existing Socialism to Capitalism: a Case Study of General Clauses in Polish

Private Law, organized by the University of Latvia, Riga (Latvia),

conference ‘The Quality of Legal Acts and its Importance in Contemporary

Legal Space’.

National Hesselink, M.W.

- (7 februari 2012) Naar een gemeenschappelijk Europees kooprecht, Hof

Amsterdam, lezing.

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- (29 februari 2012) Keuze voor het instrument, nationaal dwingend recht en

self-standing nature, Amsterdam, Symposium 'Naar een

Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie'.

- (20 maart 2012) Het karakter, de rol en de legitimiteit van de algemene

beginselen van burgerlijk recht, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, lezing.

- (14 september 2012) Kiezen voor het gemeenschappelijk Europees

kooprecht, Universiteit Gent, studiedag ‘ Het nieuw Europees kooprecht

gewikt en gewogen’.

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- (6 juni 2012) Het toepasselijke nationale recht, Rotterdam, symposium ‘De

gevolgen van de implementatie van het Maritiem Arbeidsverdrag (MAV)’.

- (21 juni 2012) Grensoverschrijdende Arbeid Lex Lumen, Nijenrode

University Breukelen, masterclass.

- (29 November 2012) Mediation in The Netherlands: the current debate,

University of Valencia(Spain), seminar ‘Mediation, Justice and Global

Justice. Some Experiences’.

Loos, M.B.M.

- (29 februari 2012) Algemene voorwaarden, Amsterdam, Symposium 'Naar

een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie',

organised by CSECL.

Mak, C.

- (29 februari 2012) Digitale inhoud, Amsterdam, Symposium 'Naar een

Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie'.

- (18 april 2012) Fundamental rights as deliberative principles in European

contract law, Groningen Centre for Law and Governance.

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12. Other research activities

Baaij, C.J.W.

- Volume editor international comparative legal study Interpretation of

Commercial Contracts, study for the ‘Common Core of European Private

Law’.

- Associate editor e-Journal Language and Law

(http://www.languageandlaw.de)

- Founder Amsterdam Circle for Law & Language (www.

lawandlanguage.eu)

- Member Common Core of European Private Law.

- Co-founder and interviewer LEaP, the podcast-series on Law, Economics

and Philosophy (http://csecl.uva.nl/research/research-themes/theme-3-

the-legitimacy-of-postnational-private-law/about-leap.html).

Bartl, M.

- (4 June 2012) Legitimacy and European Private Law, European University

Institute, Florence (Italy), PhD defense, (supervisor prof. dr H.W. Micklitz).

Comparato, G.

- (23 October 2012) Nationalism and Private Law in Europe, Universiteit van

Amsterdam, PhD defense (supervisor: prof. M.W. Hesselink, co-supervisor:

dr C. Mak).

Dankers, D.L.M.T.

- Voorzitter Nederlandse afdeling Association Henri Capitant.


- Annotator Rechtspraak Aansprakelijkheids- en Verzekeringsrecht.

- Medewerker losbladige serie Verbintenissenrecht, Groene Serie, Kluwer.

Duivenvoorde, B.B.

- Editorial board secretary Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht &

handelspraktijken.

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Hesselink, M.W.

- (together with C. Mak) Organisation Seminar on Private Law and

Nationalism, Amsterdam, 3 February 2012.

- (tezamen met M.B.M. Loos & C. Mak) Organisatie Symposium 'Naar een

Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie',

Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012.

- Supervisor G. Comparato, ‘Nationalism and Private Law in Europe’,

Universiteit van Amsterdam (PhD defense 23 October 2012).

- Editor European Review of Contract Law.

- Editor Global Jurist.

- Editor Ius Commune Lectures on European Private Law.

- Editor Schriften zur Europäischen Rechtswissenschaft/European Legal

Studies/Études juridiques européennes.

- Editor SSRN European Private Law.

- Member Advisory board European Review of Private Law.

- Onderzoeksleider ‘Algemeen verbintenissen- en Contractenrecht’,

research school Ius Commune.

- Fellow member Amsterdam Center for Law and Economics.

- Lid boekenraad Ars Aequi Libri, sectie Rechtsvergelijking, i.p.r.,

internationaal handelsrecht en Europees Privaatrecht.

- Honorary judge Court of Appeal of Amsterdam.

- Associate Member International Academy of Comparative Law.

- Member Offerhaus Circle.

- Member Trento Group 'The Common Core of European Private Law'.

- Member European Law Institute.

Hoek, A.A.H. van

- Organisation Ius Commune conference, workshop on civil procedure,

Amsterdam, 30 November 2012.

- Editor Arbeidsovereenkomst IPR, Toepasselijke recht, EVO en IPR,

Bevoegdheid, Verordening 44/200 (losbladig).

- Member of the Board NIPR - Nederlands Internationaal Privaatrecht.

- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Den Bosch.

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Loos, M.B.M.

- (tezamen met M.W. Hesselink en C. Mak) Organisatie Symposium 'Naar

een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese Unie',

Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012.

- Editor Tijdschrift voor consumentenrecht & handelspraktijken.

- Member editorial board Zeitschrift für Europäisches Unternehmens- und

Verbraucherrecht.

- Member editorial board double blind peer reviewed book series European

Economic Law and Regulation.

- Vaste medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Europees recht.

- Vaste medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Burgerlijk recht.

- Rechter-plaatsvervanger Rechtbank 's-Hertogenbosch.

- Coordinating program leader Contract Law, Research school Ius

Commune.

- Bestuurslid, Research school Ius Commune.

- Member Editorial Committee Vereniging voor Burgerlijk Recht.

- Member Working Party on Common European Sales Law Position at

European Law Institute.

- Secretaris Offerhaus Circle.

- Member College of Experts, Central Bureau for the Acquisition of Funding

(CBF).

Luzak, J.A.

- Founder and Editor Blog Recent Developments in European Consumer Law.

Mak, C.

- (together with M.W. Hesselink) Organisation Seminar on Private Law and

Nationalism, Amsterdam, 3 February 2012.

- (tezamen met M.W. Hesselink en M.B.M. Loos) Organisatie Symposium

'Naar een Gemeenschappelijk Europees Kooprecht voor de Europese

Unie', Amsterdam, 29 februari 2012.

- (together with J.M. Mendes & I. Venzke) Organisation Conference on

Postnational Rulemaking between Authority and Autonomy, Amsterdam,

20-21 September 2012.

- Co-supervisor G. Comparato, ‘Nationalism and Private Law in Europe’,

Universiteit van Amsterdam (PhD defense 23 October 2012).

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- Visiting researcher at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (May-June

2012).

- Research fellow Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics.

- Associate member Laboratorio Interdisciplinare Diritti e Regole (Lider-

Lab), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa.

- Board member Offerhaus Circle.

- Board member Bregstein Stichting.

- Editor European Human Rights Cases (EHRC).

- Member European Law Institute

Oderkerk, A.E.

- Board member Amsterdam Centre for Children’s Rights.

- Treasurer Offerhaus Circle.

- Raadsheer-plaatsvervanger Hof Amsterdam.

- Medewerker Tekst & Commentaar Personen- en Familierecht.

Purnhagen, K.P.

- Associate editor European Journal of Risk Regulation.

Salomons, A.F.


- Secretaris M.H. Bregstein Stichting.

- Editor European Property Law Journal.

- Medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Handelsrecht.

- Medewerker Vermogensrechtelijke analyses.

- Medewerker Weekblad voor Privaatrecht, Notariaat en Registratie.

Vries, G.J.P.

- Medewerker Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Handelsrecht.

- Medewerker Tijdschrift voor consumentenrecht & handelspraktijken.

Weijs, R.J. de

- Attorney Houthoff Buruma, Amsterdam, Financial Markets Group.

- Board Member NVRII/NACIIL (Nederlandse Vereniging voor

Rechtsvergelijkend en International Insolventierecht)

- Fellow Insolad.

- Member Insol Europe.

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13. Funds

Direct funding The research programme is funded, in the first place, by the direct funding

from the University (1e geldstroom). In addition, participating in the research

priority area Private and Public European law, the CSECL receives funds from

the university for a postdoctoral researcher for the project The Architecture of

Postnational rule making.

Research funding Moreover, the group applies constantly, where appropriate, for additional

public funding (2e en 3e geldstroom) from the NWO (including HIIL), FP7, the

European institutions et cetera. In particular, the framework contract with the

European Parliament has been renewed in April 2010. Also, submission of

new PhD projects to the MaGW Open Competition is mandatory and passing

the test of eligibility (i.e. admission to the second round) for a Veni scholarship

is a condition for a permanent position as an assistant-professor (universitair

docent) at the CSECL. In 2012 the CSECL received funding for:

- (from 1 August 2008 until 4 February 2012) The project National resistance

against Europeanisation of private law: a multi-disciplinary investigation into

the roles of nationalist ideology and the behaviour of firms and consumers,

financed by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HIIL),

supported by NWO. Project leaders are prof. dr J.M. Smits en prof. dr M.W.

Hesselink.

- (from 1 April 2010 until 31 December 2014) The European Parliament

framework contract on European contract law, including consumer law, advice

through briefing papers financed by the European Parliament. Project leader

is prof. dr Martijn Hesselink.

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Receipts and expenditure of CSECL In K€; % of total receipts or expenditure 2012

RECEIPTS Direct funding K€ 1.204

% 98

Research funds NWO/HIIL K€ 0

% 0

EU K€ 0

% 0

Other / internal funds K€ 29

% 2

Total research funds K€ 29

% 2

Contract funding K€ 0

% 0

Other receipts K€ 0

% 0

TOTAL RECEIPTS 1233

EXPENDITURE Personnel costs direct

funding

K€ 1181

% 98

Material & travel costs direct

funding

K€ 0

% 0

Personnel costs research

funds

K€ 23

% 2

Material & travel costs

research funds

K€ 6

% 0

TOTAL EXPENDITURE 1210

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