Centre for the Study of European Contract Law annual report 2012
In 2012 the researchers of the Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (CSECL) published several ‘A’ publications in leading international journals. Furthermore, the CSECL organized three seminars. As to policy oriented research with an important societal impact, researchers of the CSECL produced two reports for the European Parliament. Finally, in 2012 one public PhD defense took place.
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.