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ACELG Presentation: Constitutional relations in Europe: some recent case law

Professor Leonard Besselink

Tuesday 8 May 2012, 12:00 - 13:00

UvA team wins first prize for international law competition

Students of the Amsterdam Law School's LLM programme in Public International Law advanced to the final rounds of pleading and won the first prize in role-plays at the 5th Frits Kalshoven competition on International Humanitarian Law, held from 5-9 March 2012 in The Hague.

ACELG Presentation: EU Economic Law in the Process of Embedding Markets

Jotte Mulder, LL.M., ACELG

Tuesday 10 April 2012, 13:15 - 14:15

UvA second-placed Dutch university in World Reputation Rankings

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the joint second best Dutch university in the World Reputation Rankings 2012 compiled by Times Higher Education (THE). In the global rankings, the UvA is placed in the 71-80 group.

ACELG Presentation: Europe in Need of a New Deal: On Federalism, Free Market and the Right to Strike

Federico Fabbrini, European University Institute

Tuesday 27 March 2012, 13:15 - 14:15

ACELG Discussion Group: Benchmarking and Financing Student Mobility in Europe

Dr. Annette Schrauwen

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:15 - 14:15

Ingemar Strandvik (Quality Manager, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), Brussels)

Seminar ‘Translating the Common European Sales Law into 23 Language Versions: Business as Usual?'
Organised together with the Amsterdam Circle for Law and Language (ACLL)

Monday 27 February 2012, 15:00 - 16:30

ACELG Seminar: The Rights to Have What Rights? EU Citizenship in Urgent Need of Clarification

Prof. Dimitry Kochenov, University of Groningen

Tuesday 6 March 2012, 13:15 - 14:15

ACELG Presentation: Sovereign Debt Threatens the Union: the Genesis of a Federation

Aart Loubert, LL.M.

Tuesday 14 February 2012, 13:15 - 14:15

Cristina Amato (University of Brescia, Italy)

Seminar 'Financial investors as consumers in a European perspective'

Monday 5 March 2012, 15:00 - 16:30

Final report Complementary study on the legal aspects of the posting of workers

In 2011 Prof. Aukje van Hoek was lead researcher of the study team on the legal aspects of the posting of workers in the framework of the provision of services in the European Union.

ACELG Presentation: Post-National Rulemaking and Justiciability in Global Governance Law: The Case of EU-US Legal Relations

Dr. Elaine Fahey, ACELG

Tuesday 6 December 2011, 13:15 - 14:15

Marija Bartl

As of 15 November 2011 Marija Bartl joins the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law as a post-doctoral researcher for the project 'The Architecture of Post-National Rulemaking: Views from Public International Law, European Public Law and European Private Law'.

Seminar ‘Private law and nationalism', Amsterdam, 3 February 2012

This seminar explored the relationship between private law and nationalism. It was sponsored by the Hague Institute for the Internationalisation of Law (HIIL).

Friday 3 February 2012, 9:00 - 17:30

ACELG Seminar: The EU Financial Regulation and Supervision System in Reaction to the Financial Crisis

Dr. Larisa Dragomir, European Commission DG MARKT

Thursday 15 December 2011, 13:00 - 14:30

ACELG Seminar: What Principles Drive (or Should Drive) European Criminal Law?

Dr. Ester Herlin-Karnell, VU University Amsterdam, Department of Transnational Legal Studies and Faculty of Law

Monday 14 November 2011, 11:00 - 12:30

Benjamin van Rooij Awarded Honorary Professorship in China

On Monday 31 October 2011 the Wuhan University School of Law awarded an honorary professorship to Benjamin van Rooij (Professor of Chinese law and Regulation, Director of the Netherlands China Law Centre of the University of Amsterdam).

ACELG Recent Developments: Case T-18/10 Inuit Tapriit Kanatami and others v. European Parliament

Dr. Thomas Vandamme, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre of European Law and Governance

Tuesday 11 October 2011, 13:15 - 14:15

ACELG research proposal discussion: "Participatory economy: the consumer-centered model of market regulation"

Dr. Kati Cseres, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre of European Law and Governance

Tuesday 27 September 2011, 13:15 - 14:15

ACELG Seminar: The SWIFT affair and the Global Politics of European Security

Prof. Marieke de Goede, University of Amsterdam, Department of Politics

Tuesday 27 September 2011, 13:15 - 14:15

ACELG Seminar: Is the Sum More than its Parts? The Effectiveness of the EU in Multilateral Negotiations

Dr. Louise van Schaik, Clingendael Research Fellow

Wednesday 22 June 2011, 15:00 - 16:00

Vincent Sagaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Seminar ‘Contractualization of ownership'

Monday 26 March 2012, 15:00 - 16:30

ACELG Seminar: Beyond Law versus Economics. Competition Policy as a Learning Platform

Dr. Yane Svetiev, European University Institute

Tuesday 8 November 2011, 13:00 - 14:30

Prof. Neil Komesar (University of Wisconsin Law School)

Seminar 'The Essence of Economics: Behavior, Choice and Comparison - Essay One 'The Basic Thesis with Lessons from the Economic Analysis of the Common Law'

Monday 7 May 2012, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Takis Tridimas (Queen Mary, University of London)

Seminar ‘The scope of application of General Principles: Bold Rulings and Fine Distinctions’

Monday 6 February 2012, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Hanoch Dagan (Tel-Aviv University)

Seminar 'Pluralism and Perfectionism in Private Law’

Monday 2 April 2012, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Mattias Kumm (NYU School of Law)

Seminar 'Constitutionalism and the Moral Point of Constitutional Pluralism: Institutional Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Objection'

Monday 23 April 2012, 15:00 - 16:30

Scheduling your PhD defence ceremony

PhD students can have a view of the possibilities for scheduling their PhD defence ceremony in the Agnietenkapel or Aula.

Prof. Maurice Adams (Universiteit van Tilburg)

Seminar 'Comparative legal research and sources of law'

Monday 19 December 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

ACELG Seminar: Is the Sum More than its Parts? The Effectiveness of the EU in Multilateral Negotiations

Dr. Louise van Schaik, European Studies Programme of the Clingendael Institute

Wednesday 22 June 2011, 15:00 - 16:00

ACELG Recent Developments: The Citizen’s initiative Regulation 211/2011: Towards a ‘European referendum’?

Dr. Thomas Vandamme, University of Amsterdam

Tuesday 7 June 2011, 13:15 - 14:15

Law student Sander Wirken wins UvA Thesis Competition 2011

Law student Sander Wirken has won the UvA Thesis Competition 2011. He was presented with this special distinction during the University Day on Saturday, 28 May. Medical student Soemirien Kasanmoentalib came second. Third place was shared by Peter Bloem (Artificial Intelligence) and Ammeke Kateman (History).

Distinguished visiting professor of international refugee law at Amsterdam Law School

James C. Hathaway, James E. and Sarah A. Degan Professor of Law and Director of the program in Refugee and Asylum Law at University of Michigan Law School, and distinguished visiting professor of international refugee law at Amsterdam Law School, is currently in Amsterdam

ACTL seminar – CCCTB; some selected issues

Amsterdam, 10 and 11 June 2011

ACTL prof. Peter Wattel awarded with Hofstrapenning

ACTL Professor of EU Tax Law Peter J. Wattel has been awarded the Hofstra award.

ACELG Seminar: Regulation and Governance in China

Prof. Benjamin van Rooij, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands China Law Centre

Tuesday 24 May 2011, 13:15 - 14:15

Prof. Steve Smith (McGill University, Quebec)

Seminar ‘Duties, Liabilities, and Damages'

Monday 31 October 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Kåre Lilleholt (University of Oslo)

Seminar 'Passing of risk and the risk of mystification – some drafting issues'

Monday 3 October 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Alan Schwartz (Yale Law School)

Seminar ‘The Myth of Efficient Breach: New Defenses of the Expectation Interest’

Monday 17 October 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Verica Trstenjak (Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union Luxemburg)

Seminar ‘Consumer protection law relating to online contracts in the case-law of the CJEU and the role of the Advocate General’

Monday 28 November 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Fryderyk Zoll (Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland)

Seminar ‘Optional Instrument and the Service Contracts’

Monday 18 April 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Dr. Andrew Steven (University of Edinburgh)

Seminar ‘Security rights: Scotland and The Netherlands compared’

Monday 4 April 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Dr. Juan Amaya Castro (VU)

Seminar 'Understanding and Evaluating the Legal Critiques of the Public/Private Distinction and their Implications'

Monday 23 May 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Étienne Pataut (Sorbonne (Paris 1)

Seminar 'Individual and collective labour contracts : choice of law issues?'

Monday 5 September 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Jacco Bomhoff (London School of Economics)

Seminar ‘Comparing legal argument: notes toward a research method'

Monday 19 September 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Silver medal for UvA at Frits Kalshoven competition on International Humanitarian Law

Students of the Amsterdam Law School's LLM programme in Public International Law finished the fourth Frits Kalshoven competition on International Humanitarian Law (IHL), held 14-18 February 2011 in The Hague, in second place.

Ernst Hirsch Ballin appointed professor of Human Rights

Former Minister of Justice and Interior Affairs , Dr Ernst Hirsch Ballin, has been appointed professor of Human Rights at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) as of 1 March 2011.

How can the Chinese monitor compliance with the law?

Over the past twenty years, China has drawn up an extensive system of laws and regulations to protect against economic, environmental and health risks. Benjamin van Rooij will discuss the role that citizens can play as regulators to ensure compliance with these laws is increased

Thursday 24 February 2011, 16:00

Dr M.G.C.M. Peeters

Dr M.G.C.M. Peeters (1957) has been named professor of Derivatives Law by special appointment at the Faculty of Law of the University of Amsterdam. The Chair is endowed by the Foundation Securities, Markets and Regulation with financial support from NYSE Euronext.

ACELG Seminar: National Judiciaries and EU Law. An Empirical Perspective

Lunch seminar on Tuesday, 22 February 2011, 13.00 - 14.30

Tuesday 22 February 2011, 13:00 - 14:30

Prof. Gerhard Wagner (University of Bonn, Germany)

Seminar 'Mandatory Contract Law'

Monday 16 May 2011, 14:30 - 16:00

Prof. Mathias Siems (University of East Anglia, UK)

Seminar 'Cross-Citations between Supreme Courts in Europe'

Monday 21 March 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Harm Schepel (University of Kent)

Seminar 'Who’s Afraid of the Total Market? On the horizontal application of the free movement provisions in EU Law'

Monday 7 February 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Amsterdam Law School building closed during Christmas holiday

The Oudemanhuispoort will be closed from December 25 up to January 2 2011.

ACELG Seminar: Pragmatic Transnationalism. Governing Across Borders in the Global Economy

Lunch seminar with Prof. Jonathan Zeitlin, University of Amsterdam

Tuesday 18 January 2011, 13:00 - 14:00

Accreditation Organization awards distinctive quality feature to the international LL.M. programmes of the Amsterdam Law School

On 9 December, the Netherlands Flemish Accreditation Organization (NVAO) announced that it has awarded the special qualification ‘internationalisation' to the LL.M. programmes International and European Law, European Private Law, and International Criminal Law (the joint programme with Columbia Law School) of the Amsterdam Law School.

Amsterdam Law School Class of 2000 reunion

On August 14, 2010, the University of Amsterdam Law School LLM class of 2000 got together to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of their graduation from the ALS LLM program. Approximately 20 alumni from countries all over the world came together to commemorate their memorable year together at the Amsterdam Law School.

Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law is on Linkedin

After a few months of being created the ACTL-group on Linkedin has now around 475 members.

ACTL seminar: The 2010 update to the OECD MC and the revised Transfer Pricing guidelines

The Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law (ACTL) is organising the seminar "The 2010 update to the OECD MC and the revised Transfer Pricing guidelines", to be held next 19 November 2010 at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam.

Friday 19 November 2010

Prof. Aurelia Colombi Ciacchi (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

Seminar 'What is "Law and Governance"?'

Monday 9 May 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Carla Sieburgh (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Seminar 'How to improve the legitimacy of national case law influenced by primary EU Law?'

Monday 7 March 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

Symposium groenboek Europees contractenrecht: naar een optioneel instrument?

On 10 November 2010 the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law organizes a symposium (in Dutch) on 'Groenboek Europees contractenrecht: naar een optioneel instrument?'

Wednesday 10 November 2010, 9:00 - 18:00

Conference 'The Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonisation'

On 21 January 2011 the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law and the Amsterdam Circle for Law & Language (ACLL) hosted an international interdisciplinary conference on the Role of Legal Translation in Legal Harmonisation.

Friday 21 January 2011, 9:00 - 18:00

Prof. Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania Law School)

Seminar ‘The Effect of Contract Regulation: The Case of Franchising'

Monday 25 October 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Stef van Weeghel (ACTL) general reporter during IFA congres 2010 in Rome

Prof. Stef van Weeghel (Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law) will be the general reporter during the annual congress of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) in Rome ...

Mr D.W.F. Verkade

Effective 1 July 2010, Mr D.W.F. Verkade (1944) was appointed professor by special appointment in Special aspects of Private Law at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Law (FdR). The chair was designated on behalf of the Marcel Henri Bregstein Stichting.

Prof. Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz (European University Institute Florence)

Seminar ‘Social justice in private law - the European challenge?’

Monday 18 October 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Larry Solan (Brooklyn Law School New York)

Seminar ‘When Contracts Mean Different Things to Different People: The Illusion of False Consensus’

Monday 1 November 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Patrick Glenn (Mc Gill university, Quebec, Canada)

Seminar ‘Multivalent logic in private international contract law’

Monday 29 November 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Evelyne Terryn (Kuleuven campus Kortrijk)

Seminar ' Enforcement of consumer rights in the internal market - one internal market versus a fragmented public enforcement device’

Monday 6 September 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2010

Students and PhD candidates can be nominated for the University of Tilburg's Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award 2010 until 25 September. There is €5,000 in prize money to be shared out.

First Dutch centre for Chinese law and regulations

From July 2010, The Netherlands China Law Centre will offer teaching and research on Chinese law and regulations at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). It is the first research centre in the Netherlands to specialise in Chinese law and the only centre worldwide that specialises in regulatory issues in China.

Netherlands China Law Centre starts at the UvA Law School

The University of Amsterdam Law School has established the Netherlands China Law Centre to start research and teaching about law and regulation in China. It is the first China law centre in the Netherlands, and the only research group specializing in regulatory issues in China and their implications for regulatory theory worldwide.

European Commission's Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of European Contract Law

Prof. dr. Martijn W. Hesselink has been appointed by the European Commission as a member of an Expert Group on a Common Frame of Reference in the area of European contract law.

Dr. Anna E. Plisecka (University of Warsaw)

ACLL-CSECL lecture 'Law and Multilingualism in Historical Context. Legal Translation and the Bilingual Publication of Roman Imperial Constitutions'

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 17:15 - 18:15

Law and Multilingualism in Historical Context

On Tuesday 25 may 2010 from 17.15 until 18.15 a lecture organized by the Amsterdam Circle for Law & Language (ACLL) and the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) will take place in room a101 Oudemanhuispoort

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 17:15 - 18:15

ACGL discussion 'Feminist Legal Scholarship'

Discussion led by Iris van Domselaar about article: 'Feminist Legal Scholarship' by Patricia A. Cain

Monday 28 June 2010, 12:30 - 13:30

Prof.Dr. M.Y.A. Zieck delivers Inaugural Lecture on International Refugee Law

The lecture will focus on the universal international refugee law regime that was created in the wake of the Second World War.

Friday 23 April 2010, 14:30 - 16:00

Visiting fellow Gema Tomás

Dr. Gema Tomás is Assistant Professor at the University of Deusto (Bilbao, Spain).

Framework Service Contract European Parliament

CSECL has won for the second time a tender of the European Parliament on European contract law, including consumer law.

Goverment Failure versus Market failure

Discussion meeting of the research group Market Regulation, led by Adrienne de Moor-van Vugt.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 13:00 - 14:00

Symposium 'The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on Private International Law'

On 12 November 2010 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) and the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) organize a symposium about 'The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights on Private International Law'.

Friday 12 November 2010, 9:00 - 17:30

From Marks & Spencer to X Holding: the future of cross-border group taxation

Seminar organised by the Amsterdam Centre for Tax Law, held at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 8:30 - 18:00

Martijn Hesselink teaching in Lissabon

In March 2010 prof. Martijn Hesselink teached in Lissabon at the Católica Global School of Law.

Conference 'Oneerlijke handelspraktijken', 28 May 2010, Amsterdam

On 28 May 2010 the publisher Paris of the journal Tijdschrift voor Consumentenrecht en Handelspraktijken organizes together with the Eggens Institute of the Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam, a conference on 'Oneerlijke Handelspraktijken' to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal

Friday 28 May 2010, 9:00 - 17:00

The Intuition of the Judge and Informal Rules

Symposium as a Farewell to Niels van Manen

Friday 9 April 2010, 13:15 - 17:30

Visiting professor: Jean-Claude Guédon

Professor Jean-Claude Guédon is visiting IViR for three months. Professor Guédon is professor at the University of Montreal, Department of Comparative Literature.

Prof. Denis Mazeaud (Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France)

Seminar 'The reform project of French contract law’

Monday 14 November 2011, 15:00 - 16:30

UvA team wins Jessup Cup National Rounds and goes on to Washington

Students of the Amsterdam Law School's LLM programme in Public International Law have won the national rounds of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and have advanced to the international rounds to be held in Washington, D.C.

Prof. Pierre Legrand (Université Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne, France)

Seminar ‘Comparative Law and the Unfinished Project of Comparison’

Monday 15 November 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Visiting scholar Professor Dennis Hirsch at IViR

A scholar of both information privacy law and environmental law, Professor Dennis Hirsch is a recipient of a prestigious Fulbright Senior Professorship Grant for research and teaching in the Netherlands in 2010.

Prof. Eric Posner (University of Chicago)

Seminar ‘The Right to Withdrawal in Contract Law'

Monday 15 March 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Dr. Jacobien Rutgers (VU Amsterdam)

Seminar ‘European Contract Law and the Welfare State’

Monday 7 June 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Nils Jansen (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)

Seminar ‘Dogmatizing European Private Law. Non-legislative Codifications and Professional Debate’

Monday 12 April 2010, 14:00 - 15:30

Prof. Horst Eidenmüller (University of München and Oxford University)

Seminar ‘Why Withdrawal Rights?’

Monday 21 June 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Dr. Daniel Haas (VU, Amsterdam)

Seminar ‘Towards a better defined Restriction on the Right to Specific Performance in European Contract Law’

Monday 1 March 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Ralph Michaels (Duke, Durham)

Seminar ‘The Two Rationalities of European Private Law’

Monday 29 March 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Jaakko Husa (University of Joensuu, Finland)

Seminar 'Legal Cultures, Traditions and the Likes: All Quiet on the Comparative Law Front?'

Monday 10 May 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Martijn Hesselink professeur invité Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I)

This term (second term 2009-2010) Martijn Hesselink is professeur invité at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I).

CSECL and IVIR obtain EU funding for research on digital content services for consumers

The Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) and the Institute for Information Law (IVIR) have won a European tender for a joint research project concerning ‘the legal framework for digital content services for consumers'.

Prof. dr. Aukje van Hoek

As of 1 January 2010 dr. A.A.H. van Hoek has been appointed Professor of Private International Law and Civil Procedure at the University of Amsterdam's Faculty of Law (FdR).

Prof. Alex Geert Castermans (Leiden University)

Seminar ‘Corporations for human rights or The elephant in the room’

Monday 1 February 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

Dr. T.F.E. Tjong Tjin Tai

Seminar 'Services as product: commodification of contracts in European Private Law'

Monday 18 January 2010, 15:00 - 16:30

EU - Turkey Relations: Free Movement of Persons

On December the 4th a conference on EU-Turkey Relations will take place. Entrance free. The subject of the conference is Free movement of Persons

Friday 4 December 2009, 12:30 - 19:00

Second Meeting Research Group Market Regulation

On October 29 2009 the Research Group Market Regulation, directed by Adrienne de Moor, will convene for a second meeting in the series: ‘Market and consumer: lap dog or watch dog?’ Place and time: Oudemanhuispoort Room A101, 13.00-14.00

Thursday 29 October 2009, 13:00 - 14:00

Lecture by the Amsterdam Circle for Law & Langue on the Dutch civil Code

Earlier this year the new comprehensive English translation of the Dutch Civil Code was published: "The Civil Code of the Netherlands" by Hans Warendorf, Richard Thomas and Ian Curry-Sumner (Kluwer, 2009).

Wednesday 30 September 2009, 17:00 - 18:00

Prof. John Cartwright (Oxford)

Seminar 'Vitiated consent or intention: comparing the DCFR [Book II, Chapter 7, Section 2] with English law'

Monday 16 November 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Dr. Bas van Zelst

Seminar ‘Arbitration: the new (European) consumer litigation?’

Monday 21 September 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Dr. Kati Cseres

Seminar 'The cross-roads of contract law and competition law'

Monday 5 October 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Christiane Wendehorst (University of Vienna)

Seminar 'Full harmonisation - contract law in Europe at a dead end?'

Monday 30 November 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Professor Schrage appointed honorary professor at NMMU

Prof. E.J.H. Schrage of the Amsterdam Law School has been appointed honorary professor at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Blackboard not available on 16 July and slower on 17 July

Blackboard is being updated to Blackboard 8 and will therefore not be available on 16 July and will probably be slower on 17 July. It should be back up to full speed from 22 July.

Lecture by Prof. Wirth on global warming

On Friday 29 May 2009, Prof. Wirth will deliver a lecture on Global warming as an international issue and implementation of the current multilateral negotiations, particularly in the U.S. under President Obama. Professor Dr. David A. Wirth is Professor of Law and Director of International Programs at Boston College Law School.

Friday 29 May 2009, 15:30 - 17:00

Law In Person-lecture with Carla van Os

Want to know more about Carla van Os, her career and Defence for Children International? Join de Volkenrechtskring, the Amsterdam Student Association of International Law, at the Law In Person-lecture on 19 May 2009!

Tuesday 19 May 2009, 20:00 - 22:00

Prof. Thomas Ulen (University of Illinois)

Seminar ‘The Economics of Contract Law: The Next Steps’

Monday 2 November 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Visiting fellow Silvia D'Attoma

Silvia D'Attoma (University of Teramo and student of prof. Anna Veneziano) will join the Centre for three months (until 1 July 2009) as visiting fellow to do some research for her thesis and to attend the csecl seminars.

Prof. dr. Enrico Perotti

Seminar 'Standardized Enforcement: Access to Justice vs Legal Innovation'

Monday 6 April 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Postdoctoral Researcher appointed within the VICI project of Erika de Wet

On April 1, 2009 postdoctoral researcher Jure Vidmar will join the VICI project on The emerging international constitutional order directed by Professor Erika de Wet.

Prof. dr. Arthur Hartkamp (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)

Seminar ‘The effect of the EC Treaty in private law. On direct and indirect horizontal effect of primary community law’

Monday 19 October 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Lecture prof. Rene Smits on legal aspects of the credit crisis

On the 20th of february professor Rene Smits lectured on the legal aspects of the credit crisis. Click on the link below for the power point presentation he used and a list for further reading

Prof. Simon Deakin (Cambridge)

Seminar '"Capacitas": Contract Law and the Institutional Preconditions of a Market Economy

Monday 14 December 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Anna Veneziano (Teramo)

Seminar 'Secured transactions in the DCFR'

Monday 23 March 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Brian Bix (University of Minnesota)

Seminar 'Consent in Contract Law'

Monday 15 June 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Law In Person-lecture with Petra Stienen

Monday, 1 December 2008, 20h00 - 22h000, Room F002 Oudemanhuispoort

Monday 1 December 2008, 20:00 - 22:00

Transnational Corporations & Human Rights

Can TNCs be held responsible for human rights violations.

Tuesday 9 December 2008, 20:00 - 22:00

Prof. mr. J.H.M. van Erp (Universiteit Maastricht)

Seminar 'From a static classical and national model towards a dynamic European model of property law'

Monday 18 May 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Prof. Hugh Beale (University of Warwick)

Seminar 'Reform of extinctive prescription across Europe'

Monday 20 April 2009, 15:00 - 16:30

Ceremony on the occasion of the master's year 2008/2009

Faculty and master's students are cordially invited to attend the ceremony on the occasion of the new master's year.

Monday 15 September 2008, 16:00 - 18:00

Farewell to MTEC class of 2008

On Tuesday July 1st, the Amsterdam Law School said farewell to the students of MTEC class 2008. MTEC scholarships enable students from new EU member states or neighbouring countries to pursue an LLM in the Netherlands.

Dr Marjoleine Zieck appointed Director

Dr. Marjoleine Zieck has been appointed Director of the Amsterdam Graduate Law School and the Amsterdam Law College as of July 1, 2008.

Research LLM in Public International Law officially accredited

The two-year research LLM in Public International Law has been approved both by the Accreditation Organisation of The Netherlands and Flanders and the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

MTEC Symposium 2009

As soon as there is information on the symposium available it will be published here.

Friday 27 June 2008, 9:00 - 17:30

Carbon, Courts and Corporations: the exceptional possibility of justice

The Centre for Environmental Law (Centrum voor Milieurecht) is pleased to announce that on thursday April 17th 2008 at 18.00 Peter Roderick, Co-Director of the Climate Justice Programme will deliver a lecture on "Carbon, Courts and Corporations: the exceptional possibility of justice".

Thursday 17 April 2008, 18:00 - 20:00

TRIAS Telematica awarded best practice on e-Learning in Europe.

The TRIAS Telematica project, coordinated by the Leibniz Center for Law, has been selected as one of the five best e-Learning practices in Europe.

Research LL.M. in Information Law officially accredited

The two-year research LL.M. programme Information Law has been approved both by the NVAO (Netherlands Flemish Accreditation Organization) and the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science.

Universitá Bocconi and Amsterdam Law School establish partnership

As of 1 February 2008, the Amsterdam Law School has entered a partnership with the Universitá Bocconi in Milan, a private university specialised in economics, management and law.

Three new Ph.D. researchers appointed within the Vici project of Erika de Wet

Three new Ph.D. researchers appointed within the Vici project of Erika de Wet

International law and the Battle of the Arctic

On february 7th 2008, the Volkenrechtskring organizes a mini-symposium concerning the legal aspects of the ‘Battle of the Arctic'.

Thursday 7 February 2008, 19:00 - 21:00

MTEC Symposium 2007: state sovereignty

On June 29, a symposium will be held on the meaning of state sovereignty in the 21st century. The event is organised by the Faculty of Law's MTEC students and is open to all.

Friday 29 June 2007

Conference on System Criminality in International Law

On 20 an 21 October 2006, a conference was organized on system criminality in international law. The aim of the conference was to review the main avenues within the international legal order to address the organizational context within which individual crimes are committed, and to identify the need and possibilities for improvement of the relevant principles of procedures of international law.

Friday 20 October - Saturday, 21 October 2006

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