Each year, the Jura Falconis conference is held to discuss prior developments, draw lessons from the past and offer perspectives for the future of European private international law. The 50th anniversary of the Brussels Convention (1968) presented itself as the perfect discussion point for the 2018 conference.

The book offers an overview of the interactions between digital technologies and contract law, focusing largely on the two Proposals of the EU Commission of 2016 on digital contracting and digital contents.

This volume sets out, for nine significant legal systems, an overarching conception of risk in legal theory, particularly of the linked role of risk-taking in generating liability and in liability regulating risk. It is the first book-length comparative attempt to explain what risk-based reasoning adds to private law, with a core focus on the law of tort.

Deze zesde editie van dit klassieke handboek analyseert de beginselen van het recht van de Europese Unie na het Verdrag van Lissabon waarbij de hoofdlijnen van het Europees recht en de instellingen van de Europese Unie systematisch in kaart worden gebracht.

Primary EU Law and Private Law Concepts explores the interplay between approaches and legal concepts of private law, including property rights law, by primary EU law, particularly internal market law. It envisions to give ground-breaking analyses of private law concepts (the person, property, contract and tort and remedies) used, created or adjusted by the Court.

This book discusses the possible reach of the influence of the TFEU provisions on free movement of goods, persons, services and capital on legal relationships between individuals (‘horizontal’ legal relationships). It then formulates a private law reaction to this so-called direct horizontal effect of the fundamental freedoms.

A collection of essays by distinguished legal scholars that explores from legal, historical and theoretical perspectives how the Charter of the Fundamental Rights of the European Union has affected, and is likely to impact on the development of, contract law and commercial law within the European Union.

De Europese wetgever heeft binnen het bestek van de Erfrechtverordening een uniform erfrechtelijk bewijsinstrument ontwikkeld: de Europese erfrechtverklaring. In dit omvangrijk standaardwerk analyseert en evalueert de auteur het volledige regime van de Europese erfrechtverklaring.

This book examines the European Union’s impact on private and especially contract law. It shows how the European Union’s founding Treaties grant it in principle only a limited competence in the field, but how in practice the European Union’s influence is broad and to some extent unpredictable.