Institute of European and Comparative Law
Annual Report for 2014-2015
For further information please contact:
The Administrator
Institute of European and Comparative Law
St Cross Building
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Introduction
The academic year 2014-15 culminated with the Institute’s anniversary celebrations in
late September. From its modest beginnings in 1995 the Institute has seen continuous
growth over the past decades. It has established and nurtured numerous links with our
continental partners, with regard to both teaching and research.
Today, the Institute facilitates many of the Faculty’s research activities in European and
comparative law, inter alia by organising the relevant lunchtime Discussion Groups and a
raft of international conferences. Its particular focus is on the intersection of European and
comparative law.
This is particularly visible in the Institute’s book series published by Hart Publishing, the
Studies of the Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law, which will see the
publication of its 20th volume later this year. A flavour of the topics that are on our
research agenda is conveyed by the list of our most important events during the past
academic year on p.28 below.
The Institute promotes the Faculty’s teaching agenda by administering its undergraduate
exchange programme, the largest of its kind in this country. The ‘Law with Law Studies in
Europe’ degree (informally known as ‘Course 2’) sees 35 of our BA students take their
third year away from Oxford, spending it at one of our European partner faculties in
France, Germany, Italy, Spain or The Netherlands. As announced in last year’s Annual
Report, we are currently working on an extension of ‘Course 2’ to two Asian universities.
Negotiations with the National University of Singapore are far advanced, and we hope to
conclude an exchange agreement with them soon.
Closer to home, everyone at the Institute looks forward to the major building works that
will transform the St Cross Building. Once completed, the Institute will finally move out of
its cramped and dark facilities and occupy a much more appropriate part of the building.
Unfortunately, the interim period will be challenging. The Institute was decanted to The
Old Rectory behind the Westgate Centre. The move was not without disruptions, and the
year that we will spend there will be difficult for everyone involved.
Despite these challenges we managed to celebrate the anniversary with a major
conference on ‘General Principles of Law in a Comparative and European Context’. The
event saw a large number of high profile speakers from the UK, Europe and the United
States, and of course Oxford.
Yet, the September conference did not only celebrate the past. It also marked an important
step towards the Institute’s future. After having been Director of the Institute for eleven
years I will step down from the post to take up a new role as Director of the Max Planck
Institute of European Legal History in Frankfurt from 1 October onwards.
It has been a privilege to serve in this Faculty office for so many years and I am
tremendously grateful to all the Institute’s staff, friends and supporters who have made
these eleven years the most interesting and exciting period in my career. I am particularly
grateful to Jenny Dix, the Institute’s administrator, for her excellent professional support
over all these years. The Institute would not have been able to achieve anything without
her hard work.
I am delighted that the Faculty has appointed Professor John Cartwright to the
Directorship. I could not think of anyone who would be better suited to lead the Institute
towards the next 20 years of its existence.
Stefan Vogenauer
Linklaters Professor of Comparative Law and Director of the Institute
30 September 2015
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Staff
Academic Staff
Professor Stefan Vogenauer, Linklaters Professor of Comparative Law and Director of the
Institute
Professor Stephen Weatherill, Jacques Delors Professor of European Law and Deputy
Director of the Institute
Professor Alexandra Braun, Academic Director of Undergraduate Exchange Programmes
and Deputy Director of the Institute
Professor Ulf Bernitz, Research Fellow, co-ordinator of the Oxford-Stockholm
Collaboration
Dr Laura Carlson, Stockholm Centre Oxford Fellow for 2014-15
Professor Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law, head of the
Centre for Competition Law and Policy (CCLP)
Dr Andreas von Goldbeck, DAAD Lecturer in German and EU Law
Dr Geneviève Helleringer, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Dr Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, Career Development Fellow in Comparative Law
Dr Javier Garcia Oliva, Lecturer in Spanish Law
Dr Konstanze von Papp, Erich Brost Career Development Fellow in German and EU Law
Mr Nello Pasquini, Linklaters Teaching Fellow for Italian Law
Dr Felix Steffek, Max Planck Fellow for 2014-15
Associated Research Fellows
Professor Hugh Beale (University of Warwick)
Professor Michal Bobek (College of Europe)
Professor Anthony Bradley QC (Hon) (Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, University
of Edinburgh)
Professor Mindy Chen-Wishart (Fellow of Merton College)
Professor Gerhard Dannemann (Centre for British Studies, Humboldt University, Berlin)
Dr Eric Descheemaeker (University of Edinburgh)
Professor Mark Freedland (Emeritus Professor of Employment Law, St John’s College,
Oxford)
Professor Dorota Leczykiewicz (European University Institute, Florence)
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Professor Justine Pila (Fellow of St Catherine’s College, Oxford)
Professor Jeremias Prassl (Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford)
Mr Conor Quigley QC (Serle Court Chambers)
Professor Wolf-Georg Ringe (Copenhagen Business School)
Professor Simon Whittaker (Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford and Professor of European
Comparative Law)
Professor Katja Ziegler (Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, University of
Leicester)
Administrator
Ms Jenny Dix
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Law with Law Studies in Europe and the European Student
Exchange Programme
The Institute continues to be responsible for the Faculty’s four-year BA in ‘Law with Law
Studies in Europe’. This essentially is a variant on the regular Oxford law degree that
includes an extra year spent at one of Oxford’s partner universities abroad. It is thus also
frequently called ‘Law Course 2’.
The following options are on offer:
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Law and French Law with 15 students per year going to the University of Paris
Panthéon-Assas;
Law and German Law with 12 students going to the Universities of Bonn, Konstanz,
Munich or Regensburg;
Law and Italian Law with two students going to the University of Siena;
Law and Spanish Law with two students going to the University of Pompeu Fabra in
Barcelona;
Law and European Law with four students going to the University of Leiden.
The Institute administers the programme, including the provision of preparatory teaching
in foreign law and languages and keeping constant contact with the academic directors and
the administrators of the exchange programmes in our partner universities.
Within this framework, the Institute also provides a focus and support network for the
students coming to Oxford from our partner universities under the Erasmus exchange
agreements. These students are registered for the one-year Diploma in Legal Studies
programme.
With 35 incoming and 35 outgoing students per year, Course 2 is the biggest
undergraduate exchange programme in the University. Overall, Course 2 remains one of
the success stories of the Institute. Its graduates are highly sought after by big law firms
which appreciate their linguistic skills, their experience abroad and the teaching they
receive in Oxford.
A detailed report on Course 2 for 2014-2015 was submitted to the Law Board for its
meeting in June 2015 and can be viewed on the Law Faculty intranet.
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Publications
(a) Books
Ulf Bernitz, Stephen Weatherill (with S de Vries) (eds), The EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights as a Binding Instrument– Five Years Old and Growing (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2015 forthcoming)
Ulf Bernitz, Svensk och europeisk marknadsrätt 1, Konkurrensrätten och
marknadsekonomins rättsliga grundvalar [Swedish and European Market Law 1.
Competition Law and the Legal Foundations of the Market Economy], 4th edn
(Stockholm: Wolters Kluwer, 2015)
Michal Bobek (ed), Selecting Europe’s Judges: A Critical Review of Selection Procedures to the
European Courts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Michal Bobek (ed), Central European Judges under the European Influence: The
Transformative Power of the EU Revisited (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015)
Laura Carlson (with B Nyström and Ö Edström) (eds), Globalization, Fragmentization and
Employment Law: a Swedish Perspective (Uppsala: Iustus, 2015)
Mark Freedland (with C Costello) (eds), Migrants at Work – Immigration and Vulnerability
in Labour Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)
Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl (eds), Viking, Laval and Beyond (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2015)
Geneviève Helleringer (with JS Bergé), Operating the Law in a Global Context (Cheltenham:
E Elgar, forthcoming)
Dorota Leczykiewicz and Stephen Weatherill (eds), The Images of the Consumer in EU Law:
Legislation, Free Movement and Competition Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2016
forthcoming)
Justine Pila (with RC Dreyfuss) (eds), Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016 in preparation)
Justine Pila (with PLC Torremans), European Intellectual Property Law (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2016 forthcoming)
Justine Pila (with C Wadlow) (eds), Perspectives on the Unitary (EU) Patent System (Oxford:
Hart Publishing, 2015)
Justine Pila (with PS Davies) (eds), The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2015)
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Jeremias Prassl, The Concept of the Employer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Jeremias Prassl (with A Bogg, C Costello and A Davies) (eds), The Autonomy of Labour Law
(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015)
Wolf-Georg Ringe (with H Fleischer and J Lau Hansen) (eds), German and Nordic
Perspectives on Company Law and Capital Markets Law (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck,
2015)
Stefan Vogenauer (with V Triebel), Englisch als Vertragssprache [English as the Language
used in Contracts Governed by German Law] (Munich: CH Beck, 2016 forthcoming)
Stefan Vogenauer (ed), Commentary on the UNIDROIT Principles of International
Commercial Contracts, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
Stefan Vogenauer (with L Gullifer) (eds), English and European Perspectives on Contract
and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Hugh Beale (Oxford: Hart Publishing,
2014)
Stephen Weatherill, Cases and Materials on EU Law, 11th edn (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2014)
(b) Articles and Chapters in Edited Books
Ulf Bernitz, ‘The New EU Competition Damages Directive, in M Bergström, M Iacovides and
M Strand (eds), Harmonizing EU Competition Litigation (Oxford: Hart Publishing,
2015 forthcoming)
Ulf Bernitz, ‘The Scope of the Charter and its Impact on the Application of the ECHR’, in S
de Vries, U Bernitz and S Weatherill (eds), The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights as
a Binding Instrument – Five Years Old and Growing (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015
forthcoming)
Ulf Bernitz, ‘The Åkerberg Fransson Case. Ne bis in idem: Double Procedures for Tax
Surcharge and Tax Offences not Possible’, in J Nergelius and E Kristoffersson (eds),
Human Rights in Contemporary European Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 191–
209
Michal Bobek, ‘Judicial Selection, Lay Participation, and Judicial Culture in the Czech
Republic: A Study in a Central European (Non)Transformation’, in S Turenne (ed),
The Independence of a Meritorious Elite: the Government of Judges and Democracy,
Reports to the 19th International Congress of Comparative Law in Vienna (Berlin:
Springer, forthcoming 2015)
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Michal Bobek, ‘Court of Justice of the European Union’, in A Arnull and D Chalmers (eds),
Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
153-177
Michal Bobek, ‘Pět poznámek k debatě o nejvyšší radě soudnictví’ (2015) 17 Právní
rozhledy 598-604
Michal Bobek, ‘Talking Now? Preliminary Rulings in and from the New Member States’
(2014) 21 Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law 782-789
Alexandra Braun, ‘Intestate Succession in Italy’, in KGC Reid, MJ De Waal and R
Zimmermann (eds), Comparative Succession Law: Vol. II. Intestate Succession
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) 67-95
Laura Carlson, ‘Academic Freedom and the Rights to University Teaching Materials: a
Comparison of Swedish, American and German Approaches’ (2015-16) 2 Juridisk
Tidskrift 357-397
Laura Carlson, ‘Addressing Unlawful Discrimination: The Swedish Journey’, in B Nyström,
Ö Edström and L Carlson (eds), Globalization, Fragmentation, Labour and
Employment Law: A Swedish Perspective (Uppsala: Iustus, 2015 forthcoming)
Laura Carlson (with H Forshamn), ‘Sweden – At the Cusp of Legal Internationalization’, in C
Jamin and W van Caenegem (eds), The Internationalization of Legal Education
(Berlin: Springer, 2015 forthcoming)
Laura Carlson, ‘Teaching Materials in a Digitalized World: Who Owns the Rights? A
Comparison of Swedish and American Approaches’ (2015) 61 Comparative Law –
Scandinavian Studies in Law 263-289
Laura Carlson, ‘The Vulnerability of Academic Freedom – A Look at the Swedish Teacher
Exception’, in A Krzymowska et al. (eds), Volume 23 Stockholm Centre for
Commercial Law Årsbok VI (Stockholm: Jure, 2015) 51-67
Laura Carlson, ‘The Vulnerability of Academic Freedom - A Look at the Swedish Teacher
Exception’, in AH Persson and L Ryberg-Welander (eds), Festskrift till Catharina
Calleman – I Rättens Utkanter (Uppsala: Iustus, 2014) 75-89
Gerhard Dannemann (with D Weber Wulff), ‘Viel Licht und noch mehr Schatten. Wie
Universitäten auf Plagiatsdokumentationen reagieren’ [‘Much light, even more
shadow: how universities react to documentation of plagiarism’] (2015) 22
Forschung & Lehre 278-280
Gerhard Dannemann, ‘Interaction between CESL and National Legal Systems’ (2014) 3
Journal of European Consumer and Market Law 250-255
Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of Mitchell and Mitchell (eds.), Landmark Cases in the Law of
Restitution (Oxford, 2006)/Landmark Cases in the Law of Contract (Oxford,
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2008)/Landmark Cases in the Law of Tort (Oxford, 2010)/Landmark Cases in Equity
(Oxford, 2012)’ (forthcoming 2015) 114 Revue trimestrielle de droit civil
Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Mapping Defamation Defences’ (2015) 78 Modern Law Review 641671
Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Three Errors in the Defamation Act 2013’ (2015) 6 Journal of
European Tort Law 24-48
Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of Barnett and Harder, Remedies in Australian Private Law
(Cambridge, 2014)’ (2015) 114 Revue trimestrielle de droit civil 749-751
Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of Mitchell, A History of Tort Law 1900-1950 (Cambridge,
2015)’ (2015) 78 Modern Law Review 695-699
Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of Burrows, Johnston and Zimmermann (eds.), Judge and
Jurist: Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (Oxford, 2013)’ (2015) 114
Revue trimestrielle de droit civil 245-249
Eric Descheemaeker, ‘Review of Burrows et al., A Restatement of the English Law of Unjust
Enrichment (Oxford, 2012)’ (2014) 113 Revue trimestrielle de droit civil 742-746
Ariel Ezrachi (with ME Stucke), ‘When Competition Fails to Optimise Quality: A Look at
Search Engines’ (2015 forthcoming) Yale Journal of Law and Technology
Ariel Ezrachi (with K Ahuja), ‘Private Labels, Brands, and Competition Enforcement’, in D
Desai, I Lianos and S Waller (eds), Brands Competition Law and IP (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2015) 179-200
Ariel Ezrachi (with ME Stucke), ‘The Curious Case of Competition and Quality’ [2015]
Journal of Antitrust Enforcement 227-257
Ariel Ezrachi (with M Ioannidou), ‘Buyer Power in Merger Control: An Overview of EU and
National Case Law’ (2015) e-Competitions N° 73344
Ariel Ezrachi (with W Han), ‘Merger Remedies—the Chinese Experience’ [2015] Special
China Issue – Journal of Antitrust Enforcement i69-i92
Mark Freedland (with C Costello), ‘Migrants at Work and the Division of Labour Law’, in C
Costello and M Freedland (eds), Migrants at Work – Immigration and Vulnerability
in Labour Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) 1-28
Mark Freedland (with N Kountouris), ‘The Right to (Decent) Work in a European
Comparative Perspective’, in V Mantouvalou (ed), The Right to Work – Legal and
Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 123-136
Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl, ‘Viking, Laval and Beyond: An Introduction’, in M
Freedland and J Prassl (eds), Viking, Laval and Beyond (Oxford: Hart Publishing,
2015) 1-22
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Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl (with A Adams), ‘The “Zero-Hours Contract”:
Regulating Casual Work, or Legitimating Precarity?’ (2015)
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2507693
Mark Freedland, ‘Otto Kahn-Freund, the Contract of Employment and the Autonomy of
Labour Law’, in A Bogg, C Costello, ACL Davies and J Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of
Labour Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 29-44
Andreas von Goldbeck, ‘Subrogation - a Reappraisal’ (forthcoming)
Andreas von Goldbeck, ‘Consumer Arbitration in the EU’ (forthcoming)
Geneviève Helleringer (with K Garcia), ‘Quelle influence pour les droit de l’homme et les
droits fondamentaux en droit privé français?’, in V Trstenjak and P Weingerl (eds),
The Influence of Human Rights and Basic Rights in Private Law (Berlin: Springer,
2016 forthcoming)
Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Designing Disclosures: Testing the Efficacy of Disclosure in Retail
Investment Advice’, in K Mathis (ed), Anthology of Nudging (Berlin: Springer, 2015
forthcoming)
Geneviève Helleringer (with AL Sibony), ‘EU Consumer Law and Behavioural Sciences:
Reform of Revolution’, in AL Sibony and A Alemanno (eds), Nudge and the Law
(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 209-233
Geneviève Helleringer (with M Gelter), ‘Lift Not the Corporate Veil. To Whom are Directors’
Duties Really Owed’ (2015) 3 Illinois Law Review 1069-1118
Geneviève Helleringer, ‘Retail Investors and Disclosure Requirements’, in K Mathis (ed),
European Perspectives on Behavioural Economics (Berlin: Springer, 2015) 193-210
Geneviève Helleringer (with P Allard), ‘Le mécanisme de Résolution Unique: de la nécessité
aux defis’ (2015) 1 Revue Internationale des Services Financiers 80-86
Geneviève Helleringer (with K Garcia), ‘Le rayonnement des droits de l’homme et des
droits fondamentaux en droit privé’ (2014) 2 Revue international de droit comparé
283-336
Geneviève Helleringer (with M Gelter), ‘Constituency Directors and Corporate Fiduciary
Duties’, in A Gold and P Miller (eds), Philosophical Foundations of Fiduciary Law
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) 302-320
Geneviève Helleringer (with JS Bergé), ‘Operating International Law in a Global Context:
Taking Circulation Seriously’ (2014) 18 Spanish Yearbook of International Law 1-34
Geneviève Helleringer (with P Allard), ’Redressement et resolution des établissements de
crédit’ (2014) 3 Revue Internationale des Services Financiers 55-57
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Geneviève Helleringer, ’Mécanisme de résolution unique (MRU): accord du Conseil’ (2014)
2 Revue Internationale des Services Financiers 73-74
Geneviève Helleringer (with P Allard), ‘Le rôle de la banque centrale européenne dans la
prévention des défaillances des établissements de credit’ (2014) 1 Revue
Internationale des Services Financiers 61-67
Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Private Regulation, Compliance and Reviewability’, in R
Brownsword, R van Gestel and H-W Micklitz (eds), Research Handbook on Contract
and Regulation (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2016)
Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Regulatory Cost, the Consumer and the EU Constitutional
Framework’, in D Leczykiewicz and S Weatherill (eds), The Images of the Consumer
in EU Law: Legislation, Free Movement and Competition Law (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2016 forthcoming)
Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Effectiveness of EU Law before National Courts: Direct Effect,
Effective Judicial Protection, and State Liability’, in A Arnull and D Chalmers (eds),
Oxford Handbook of European Union Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015)
212-248
Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘”Constitutional Justice” and Judicial Review of EU Legislative Acts’, in
G de Búrca, D Kochenov and A Williams (eds), Europe’s Justice Deficit? Beyond Good
Governance (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 97-108
Dorota Leczykiewicz, ‘Conceptualising Conflict between the Economic and the Social in EU
Law after Viking and Laval’, in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds), Viking, Laval and
Beyond (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) 307-322
Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, ‘Los efectos de la imprevisión contractual. Un análisis comparado’
(2015) 36 Revista de Derecho Patrimonial Aranzadi 69-91
Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, ‘Beyond the Risk: Swaps, Financial Crisis and Change of
Circumstances. Comparative Case Note. Supreme Court of Portugal – 10.10.2013’
(2015) 23 European Review of Private Law 149-151
Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, ‘Disgorgement of Profits in Chilean Private Law’, in E Hondius
and A Janssen (eds), Disgorgement of Profits – Gain-based Remedies throughout the
World (Dordrecht: Springer, 2015) 459-467
Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, ‘La reforma al derecho de obligaciones y contratos en Francia: un
análisis preliminar’ (2015) 24 Revista Chilena de Derecho Privado 121-142
Rodrigo Momberg Uribe ‘La reformulación del rol del juez en los instrumentos
contemporáneos de derecho contractual’ (2014) 21 Revista de Derecho, Universidad
Católica del Norte 277-304
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Rodrigo Momberg Uribe, ‘El Código Civil brasilero de 2002: nuevos principios para el
derecho de contratos’, (2014) 13(26) Revista Opinión Jurídica, Universidad de
Medellín, Colombia 159-172
Konstanze von Papp, ‘Solving Conflicts with International Investment Treaty Law from an
EU Perspective: Article 351 TFEU Revisited’ (2015) 42 Legal Issues of Economic
Integration 325-356
Konstanze von Papp, ‘Biting the Bullet or Redefining Consent in Investor-State
Arbitration?’ (2015) 16 Journal of World Investment and Trade 695-726
Konstanze von Papp, ‘A Federal Question Doctrine for EU Fundamental Rights Law?’ (work
in progress)
Konstanze von Papp, ‘Social Tourism in the EU – the “Fundamental Status of EU
Citizenship” Reconsidered’ (work in progress)
Justine Pila, ‘An Historical Perspective I: The Unitary Patent Package’, in J Pila and C
Wadlow (eds), Perspectives on the Unitary (EU) Patent System (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2015) 9–31
Justine Pila, ‘Lord Hoffmann and Purposive Interpretation in Intellectual Property Law’, in
PS Davies and J Pila (eds), The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann (Oxford: Hart
Publishing, 2015) 161–184
Jeremias Prassl, 'Les seuils sociaux en Europe: Royaume-Uni' (2015) Revue de Droit du
Travail 205-217
Jeremias Prassl (with B Jones),' Verpflichtende Außergerichtliche Vermittlungsverfahren
im Englischen Arbeitsrecht: ein erster Erfahrungsbericht' (2015) 28 Zeitschrift für
Konflikt-Management 36-39
Jeremias Prassl, ‘EU Aviation Law before the English Courts: Dawson, Huzar, and
Regulation 261/2004’ (2014) 39 Air and Space Law 365-384
Jeremias Prassl, 'Employee Shareholder “Status”: Dismantling the Contract of
Employment', in S Willborn and AC Neal (eds), Yearbook of Comparative Labour Law
Scholarship 2014 (Toronto: Lancaster House, 2015) 205-238 [reprint of (2013) 42
ILJ 307]
Jeremias Prassl (with A Adams), 'Labour Legislation and Evidence-Based Public Policy: A
Case Study', in A Blackham and A Ludlow (eds), New Frontiers in Empirical Labour
Law Research (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 161-178
Jeremias Prassl, ‘Autonomous Concepts in Labour Law? The Complexities of the Employing
Enterprise Revisited’, in A Bogg, C Costello, ACL Davies and J Prassl (eds), The
Autonomy of Labour Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 151-168
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Jeremias Prassl (with A Bogg, C Costello and ACL Davies), ‘Introduction: Exploring
Autonomy’, in A Bogg, C Costello, ACL Davies and J Prassl (eds), The Autonomy of
Labour Law (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015) 1-26
Jeremias Prassl, ‘Three Dimensions of Heterogeneity: An Overview of Member State
Experiences’, in M Freedland and J Prassl (eds), Viking, Laval and Beyond (Oxford:
Hart Publishing, 2015) 113-124
Jeremias Prassl, ‘The Employment Impact of Private Equity Investors: A Return of the
Barbarians?' (2015) 44 ILJ 150-157
Jeremias Prassl, ‘Review of N Bruun, K Lörcher and I Schömann (eds.), The Lisbon Treaty
and Social Europe (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2012)' (2015) 52 CMLRev 310-311
Jeremias Prassl, ‘Members, Partners, Employees, Workers? Partnership Law and
Employment Status Revisited. Clyde & Co LLP v Bates van Winkelhof’ [2014] 43
Industrial Law Journal 495-505
Jeremias Prassl, ‘Montreal Convention Exclusivity and EU Passenger Rights: “Exposing a
Grave Injustice” Stott v Thomas Cook note’ [2014] 130 Law Quarterly Review 538541
Jeremias Prassl, 'European Employment Law at the Crossroads' (2015) British Academy
Blog [online publication]
Jeremias Prassl and Mark Freedland, 'Zero-Hours Contracts: Zero Problem, or Zero
Choice?' (2015) OxHRH [online publication]
Jeremias Prassl (with B Jones), ‘Les tribunaux du travail au Royaume-Uni : une évolution
très politique’ (2014) Metis 16 December 2014 [online publication]
Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Capital Markets Union for Europe – a Political Message to the UK’
(2015) 9 Law and Financial Markets Review 5-7
Wolf-Georg Ringe (with JN Gordon), ‘Bank Resolution in the European Banking Union: A
Transatlantic Perspective on What it Would Take’ (2015) 115 Columbia Law Review
1297-1369
Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Changing Law and Ownership Patterns in Germany: Corporate
Governance and the Erosion of Deutschland AG’ (2015) 63 American Journal of
Comparative Law 493-538 (reprinted in JG Hill and RS Thomas (eds), Research
Handbook on Shareholder Power (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 404438)
Wolf-Georg Ringe (with JN Gordon), ‘Bank Resolution in Europe: the Unfinished Agenda of
Structural Reform’, in D Busch and G Ferrarini (eds), European Banking Union
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015) 500-523
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Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘The Law of Assignment in European Private Law’, in L Gullifer and S
Vogenauer (eds), Contract, Commerce and Comparative Law: Essays in Honour of
Hugh Beale (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) 251-278
Wolf-Georg Ringe, ‘Dead Man or Dead Hand? New Poison Pills in Debt’ (2015) 30
Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law 482-484
Felix Steffek, ‘Sketches of a Justice Theory for Private Law’ [Skizzen einer
Gerechtigkeitstheorie für das Privatrecht], in S Arnold and S Lorenz (eds),
Gedächtnisschrift für Hannes Unberath [Essays in Memory of Hannes Unberath]
(Munich: CH Beck, 2015) 415–442
Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Schlüsselworte in englischen Savigny-Übersetzungen’, in T Duve and J
Rückert (eds), Savigny International? [Key Concepts in English Translations of
Savigny’s Writings] (Frankfurt/Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2015) 251-343
Stefan Vogenauer, ‘The UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts at
Twenty: Experiences to Date, the 2010 Edition, and Future Prospects’ [2014]
Uniform Law Review 481-518
Stefan Vogenauer, ‘”General Principles” of Contract Law in Transnational Instruments’, in L
Gullifer and S Vogenauer (eds), English and European Perspectives on Contract and
Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Hugh Beale (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014)
291-318
Stefan Vogenauer, ‘I princípi Unidroit dei contratti commerciali internazionali 2010’ [The
UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2010] [2014] Rassegna
di diritto civile 246-294
Stefan Vogenauer, Contributions to S Vogenauer (ed), Commentary on the UNIDROIT
Principles of International Commercial Contracts, 2nd edn (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2015), ie ‘Introduction’ (1-30), ‘General Provisions I: Arts 1.1-1.3 –
Fundamental Principles’ (150-165), ‘General Provisions III: Arts 1.6-1.12 –
Application of the PICC’ (180-251), ‘Formation IV: Arts 2.1.17-2.1.18 – Integrity of
Writing’ (371-379), ‘Interpretation: Arts 4.1-4.9’ (568-618), ‘Content: Arts 5.1.15.1.9’ (619-653), ‘Third Party Rights: Arts 5.2.1-5.2.6’ (654-687), ‘Appendix I:
Synopsis of Instruments - UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial
Contracts 2010, International Uniform Law Conventions, and Principles of
European Contract Law’ (1267-1388)
Stephen Weatherill, ‘Why There Is No “Principle of Mutual Recognition” in EU Law (and
Why That Matters to Consumer Lawyers)’, in K Purnhagen and P Rott (eds),
Varieties of European Economic Law and Regulation: Liber Amicorum for Hans
Micklitz (Heidelberg: Springer, 2014) 401–418
Stephen Weatherill, ‘Viking and Laval: The EU Internal Market Perspective’, in M Freedland
and J Prassl (eds), EU Law in the Member States: Viking, Laval and Beyond (Oxford:
Hart Publishing, 2014) 23-39
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Simon Whittaker, ‘Variation and Termination of Consumer Contracts’, in L Gullifer and S
Vogenauer (eds), English and European Perspectives on Contract and Commercial
Law, Essays in Honour of Hugh Beale (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014) 199-224
Simon Whittaker, ‘The Consumer Rights Act 2015’, Special Supplement to M Bridge (ed),
Benjamin’s Sale of Goods (9th edn) (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 2015) 1–107
(c) Other
Laura Carlson, Scientific Editor for Volume 61 Comparative Law, in the Scandinavian
Studies in Law series, see www.scandinavianlaw.se (2015)
Laura Carlson, Juridiska fakulteten, Remiss på Avskaffande av systemet med
etableringslotsar [The Stockholm Faculty of Law’s Comments as to the Proposed
Legislation: Repeal of the System with Outsourced Assistance to Newly Arrived
Immigrants] (Ds 2015:26)
Laura Carlson, Juridiska fakulteten, Remiss på Juridiskt kön och medicinsk könskorrigering
[The Stockholm Faculty of Law’s Comments as to the Proposed Legislation: Legal
Gender and Medical Gender Reassignment] (SOU 2014:91)
Laura Carlson, Juridiska fakulteten, Remissvar på Registerutdrag i arbetslivet [The
Stockholm Faculty of Law’s Comments as to the Proposed Legislation: Access to
Criminal Registers and Working Life] (SOU 2014:48)
Laura Carlson, Juridiska fakulteten, Remissvar på Visselblåsare – Stärkt skydd för
arbetstagare som slår larm om allvarliga missförhållande [The Stockholm Faculty of
Law’s Comments as to the Proposed Legislation: Whistleblowing – Greater
Protections for Employees Disclosing Serious Problems] (SOU 2014:31)
Geneviève Helleringer and Wolf-Georg Ringe, General Editors, Journal of Financial
Regulation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, from Spring 2015)
Wolf-Georg Ringe, Working Paper ‘Arbitrage and Competition in Global Financial
Regulation - The Case for a Special Resolution Regime’ (2015) Oxford Legal Studies
Research Paper No 49/2015
Wolf-Georg Ringe, Co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance
(OUP, forthcoming 2016)
Felix Steffek, Editorial Board Member, International Comparative Jurisprudence
(Amsterdam: Elsevier)
Felix Steffek, Editorial Committee Member, Journal of Corporate Law Studies (Abingdon:
Taylor & Francis)
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Felix Steffek, Scientific Advisory Committee Member, Law Review of Corporate
Reorganization & Restructuring (Law Press, China)
Stefan Vogenauer, ‘Bernard Rudden: Legal Polymath who Published Extensively on Soviet
Law’ (Obituary), The Times, 8 June 2015, 49
Stefan Vogenauer, Editor, American Journal of Legal History (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, from 2015)
Stefan Vogenauer, Editor, Rechtsgeschichte – Legal History (Frankfurt: Vittorio
Klostermann, from 2015)
Stefan Vogenauer, Editor, Uniform Law Review/Revue de droit uniforme (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, from 2013)
Stefan Vogenauer, Corresponding Editor, Contratto e impresa/Europa (Milan: CEDAM, from
2013)
Stefan Vogenauer, Member of Advisory Board, Rassegna di diritto civile (Naples: Edizioni
Scientifiche Italiane, from 2013)
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Lectures and Conference Papers
(a) Invited Lectures
Eric Descheemaeker
‘Mapping Harms in Tort Law’, Research Seminar, Singapore
Management University (August 2015)
‘Mapping Harms in Tort Law’, Contemporary Legal Problems
Seminar Series, Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia
(July 2015)
‘Wrong and Harm: Two Models of Tort Law’, Obligations Group,
University of Melbourne (July 2015)
‘Damages for Breach of Privacy: A Clash of Two Logics’, Staff
Seminar, Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington (July
2015)
‘The Harms of Privacy’, Staff Seminar, Faculty of Law, University
of Otago (July 2015)
‘Mapping Harms in Tort Law’, TC Beirne School of Law,
University of Queensland (July 2015)
‘The Australian Origins of the English Defence of Responsible
Publication in the Law of Defamation’, Kirby Seminar Series,
University of New England (June 2015)
‘The Australian Origins of the Defamation Defence of
Responsible Publication’, Law Research Seminar Series, TC
Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland (June 2015)
‘Mapping Harms in Tort Law’, Cambridge Private Law Centre
(May 2015)
‘The Harms of Privacy’, Conference on The Campbell Legacy: A
Decade of ‘Misuse of Private Information’, Newcastle Law
School (April 2015)
Geneviève Helleringer
‘Apologies, Defamation and Iniuria’, Staff Seminar, Department
of Private Law, University of Cape Town (August 2014)
‘Constituency Directors and Corporate Fiduciary Duties: a Law
and (Behavioural) Economics Perspective’, Toulouse School of
Economics (May 2015)
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‘Trust Me, I Have a Conflict of Interest!’, Essec Business School,
Paris (April 2015)
Dorota Leczykiewicz
Rodrigo Momberg
Uribe
Wolf-Georg Ringe
Felix Steffek
‘Methodological Challenges of European Private Law’,
University of Lund (December 2014)
‘El sistema de remedios para el caso de imprevisión o cambio
de circunstancias’, Programa de Doctorado en Derecho,
Universidad de Sevilla (November 2014)
‘Responsabilidad precontractual. Derecho chileno y
comparado’, Magister en Derecho, Facultad de Derecho,
Universidad de Concepción, Chile (September 2015)
‘Regulatory Arbitrage and Regulatory Competition in the
Governance of Global Financial Markets’, Max Planck Institute
for Collective Goods, Bonn (December 2014)
‘Court Internal Mediation and Civil Procedure’ [’Der Güterichter
im Zivilprozess’], University of Regensburg (December 2014)
‘Comparative Law and Justice Theory: Designing Comparative
Taxonomies with Examples from the Law of Dispute
Resolution’, Comparative Law Discussion Group, Institute of
European and Comparative Law, University of Oxford
(February 2015)
‘Undisclosed Agency in Comparative Perspective – Law,
Function, Efficiency and Justice’, University of Cambridge (April
2015)
‘The Creditor’s Inability to Accept Performance’ [’Die
Unmöglichkeit auf Seiten des Gläubigers’], University of
Hamburg (April 2015)
‘Restructuring Corporate Groups under the Recast European
Insolvency Regulation – A Critical Assessment’, University of
Oxford, Faculty of Law, Business Law Workshop (June 2015)
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(b) Conference Papers
Ulf Bernitz
‘Trade Associations and Market Transparency’, Round Table
Discussion on Information Exchange and Market Transparency,
Oxford (June 2015)
‘Control of Unfair Contract Terms: EU Jurisprudence and Unfair
Contract Terms’, conference on the ‘Balance between Contracts
and Codification’, Oxford (April 2015)
Alexandra Braun
‘Pension Death Benefits: Opportunities and Pitfalls’, Current
Issues of Succession Law, All Souls College, Oxford (July 2015)
‘The Risk of Misusing Trusts: Some Lessons from the Italian
Experience’, conference on ‘The Functioning of Trusts from a
Comparative Perspective’, Charles University, Prague (May
2015)
‘Will-substitutes in England and Wales’, conference on ‘Willsubstitutes from a Comparative Perspective’, Oxford (March
2015)
‘Amministrazione di sostegno e trust: una tutela per il dopo di
noi’, Ordinamenti europei a confronto. “Il benessere dei soggetti
in amministrazione di sostegno”: Quali prospettive nei prossimi
dieci anni?, EURAC, Bolzano (November 2014)
Eric Descheemaeker
Gerhard Dannemann
‘Defending the Incompatibility of Judicial Discretion with the
Rule of Law’, workshop on ‘Judicial Discretion and the Rule of
Law’, University of Edinburgh (April 2015)
‘The Amende Honorable’, International Conference on ‘Honour
and the Law’, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (February 2015)
‘The DCFR: a Model for Modern Codification in Terms of
Drafting Style, Density, Use of Open Terms, Language and
Terminology?’, 2nd DCFR Warsaw International Arbitration
Moot 2014, Warsaw (December 2014) (also chaired the final of
this moot)
‘FA Mann: Emigrant und streitbarer Vermittler’, Conference on
‘Wende-Punkte 1914-2014: Internationale Perspektiven auf
Deutschland und Europa’, Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst, Berlin (December 2014)
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‘Getting Lost Between Maps: Some Thoughts on Causative
Events, Rights and Remedies in the Law of Unjust Enrichment’,
Workshop on Comparative Unjust Enrichment, King’s College
London (January 2015)
‘Crowd-Based Documentation of Plagiarism: the VroniPlag Wiki
Experience’, Summer School on ‘Research Ethics in the Digital
Age’, Technical University Dresden (September 2015)
Andreas von Goldbeck
Geneviève Helleringer
‘Expert Evidence of Foreign Law in EU Courts’, European Circuit
of the Bar Annual Conference on ‘International Litigation Comparative Approaches’, Berlin (September 2015)
‘The Balance between Contracts and Codification - Arbitration
Contracts and the Unfair Contract Terms Directive’, Oxford/
Stockholm Centre Conference, Christ Church, Oxford (April
2015)
‘Trust Me, I Have a Conflict of Interest! Testing the Efficacy of
Disclosure in Retail Investment’, 5th International Association of
Consumer Law Conference, Amsterdam (June 2015)
‘Women in Dispute Resolution Today’, C5 Conference on
‘Women in Dispute Resolution, London (June 2015)
‘The Investor’s Dilemma’, conference on ‘Inequality, Trust and
Ethics: Insights from Economics and Behavioural Ethics’,
London Business School (May 2015)
‘Designing Disclosures: Testing the Efficacy of Disclosure in
Retail Investment Advice’, conference on ‘Nudging in Europe’,
Lucerne (April 2015)
‘Opportunity Makes a Thief. Corporate Opportunities as Legal
Transplant and Convergence in Corporate Law’, American
Society of Comparative Law, Younger Comparativists
Committee Workshop on ‘Comparative Business and Financial
Law’, Davis Law School, USA (November 2014)
Dorota Leczykiewicz
‘The Deregulatory Effect of the EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights’, conference of the Society of European Contract Law on
‘European Contract Law and the EU Charter of Fundamental
Rights’, Keble College, Oxford (June 2015)
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Commentator at a workshop 'European Regulatory Private Law
– The Transformation of Private Law’, 4th Meeting of the
Project Advisory Board, European University Institute, Florence
(June 2015)
‘Protecting “Consumer Welfare” in Competition Law and
Consumer Law’, Colloquium on ‘Standards of “Consumer
Welfare”: Are Competition Law and Consumer Law
Complements or Substitutes?’, The Jean Monnet Center for
International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, New
York University School of Law (May 2015)
‘Between Facts and Law - Or How Tort Law is Made’, Private
Law Theory seminar, Queen Mary, University of London (April
2015)
‘Regulation of Contractual Content’, Workshop on ‘Contract and
Regulation’, European University Institute, Florence (January
2015)
‘Comparative Judicial Governance and Contractual Liability in
EU Law’, 6th Annual Conference of the Netherlands Institute for
Law and Governance (NILG) on ‘Comparative Law and
Governance’, University of Groningen (September 2014)
Rodrigo Momberg
Uribe
Konstanze von Papp
‘Expanding consumer protection: the notion of consumer in
Latin America’, 15th Conference of the International
Association of Consumer Law, Amsterdam, (June 2015)
‘The rules on formation of contract in the Principles of Latin
American Contract Law’, The Future of Contract Law in Latin
America, Institute of European and Comparative Law, Oxford
(June 2015)
‘La reforma al derecho de obligaciones y contratos en Francia’,
IX Seminario de Derecho Civil, Universidad Católica del Norte,
Antofagasta, Chile (September 2015)
Session Chair in Colloquium on ‘Current Issues in Arbitration
and Mediation: French, British and European Perspectives‘,
Brasenose College, Oxford (December 2014)
Panellist in Colloquium on ‘The Balance Between Contracts and
Codification’, Oxford/Stockholm Centre Conference, Christ
Church, Oxford (April 2015)
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‘The Role of the EU and its Member States in International
Negotiations’, conference on ‘International Law and European
Union Law‘, International Law Association, Trier (September
2015)
Wolf-Georg Ringe
‘The Ascent of Private Markets’, The NEXT Business Conference
2014, Seoul, South Korea (September 2014)
‘Banking union resolution without deposit guarantee: A
transatlantic perspective on what it would take’, SAFE
Conference on’ Reorganization and Resolution of Transnational
Financial Institutions’, Frankfurt (October 2014)
‘Germany in Danish Business Research’, CBS Competitiveness
Platform Copenhagen Business School (November 2014)
‘Corporate mobility in the European internal market – a flash in
the pan?’, Conference on ‘Empirical Legal Scholarship’, UC
Berkeley (November 2014)
‘Corporate Mobility in the EU and Arbitrage and Competition in
Global Financial Regulation’, ETH Zurich (November 2014)
‘Corporate mobility in the European internal market – a flash in
the pan?’, Law and Economics workshop, University of Bonn
(December 2014)
Speaker, EU/Asia Corporate Governance Dialogue (February
2015)
‘Independent Directors in Asia’, National University of
Singapore (February 2015)
‘European Corporate Insolvency: Restructuring the European
Business Enterprise’, Conference on ‘Reform of the EU
Insolvency Regulation’, University of Oxford (May 2015)
‘Denmark in the Banking Union’, DJØF, Copenhagen (May 2015)
‘Bank Resolution in Europe: The Unfinished Agenda of
Structural Reform’, ETH/NYU Law and Banking/Finance
Conference on ‘Governance and Risk Taking’ (May 2015)
‘Regulatory Arbitrage and Regulatory Competition in the
Governance of Global Financial Markets’, Nordic Corporate
Governance Meeting, Copenhagen (June 2015)
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‘Extra-Territoriality and Financial Regulation’, JFR annual
conference, Georgetown Law School, Washington DC (June
2015)
‘The importance of the Capital Markets Union for the UK’,
conference on ‘EU Capital Markets Union: Contents and
Discontents’, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies London (July
2015)
‘Regulatory Arbitrage and Regulatory Competition in the
Governance of Global Financial Markets’, Vanderbilt Law and
Business Conference, ‘The Future of International Corporate
Governance’ (September 2015)
‘Startups’ Corporate Mobility and Regulatory Competition
between EU Member States’, Croatian M&A conference, Opatija,
Croatia (October 2015)
Felix Steffek
‘The Recast European Insolvency Regulation – A Solution for
Corporate Groups?’, Conference on ‘European Corporate
Insolvency: Restructuring the European Business Enterprise –
The Restructuring Recommendation & the Revised European
Insolvency Regulation’, University of Oxford (May 2015)
Stefan Vogenauer
‘Judge-made Law, Judicial Legitimacy and General Principles of
Law in Europe: a Brief History ‘, conference on ‘General
Principles of Law: European and Comparative Perspectives’,
Oxford, Institute of European and Comparative Law (September
2015)
‘History of European Law 1950-1993: Reception by the
Member States’, conference on ‘Towards a New History of
European Law’, Bruges, Collège d’Europe (June 2015)
‘The Role of the Judge after the Reform of French Contract Law’,
colloquium on ‘The Balance Between Contracts and
Codification’, Oxford/Stockholm Centre Conference, Christ
Church, Oxford (April 2015)
‘Violence économique – clauses abusives – révision pour
imprévision – exécution en nature – remèdes unliatéraux:
l’experience allemande’, colloquium on ‘Le projet de réforme du
droit des contrats: premières reactions de la pratique des
affaires’, Paris, Chambre de commerce et d’industrie de Paris
(April 2015)
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Stephen Weatherill
‘Focusing on the “Legal” in the “New History of EU Law”’,
workshop of the Copenhagen Project on the History of EU Law,
Copenhagen, Saxo Institute, Section for History, University of
Copenhagen (February 2015)
‘The Lonely Life of the Academic Sports Lawyer Before
Bosman’, conference on ‘20 Years Later: the Legacy of Bosman’,
TMC Asser Instituut, The Hague (June 2015)
‘A View from the (Academic) Sideline’, conference on ‘General
Principles of Law: European and Comparative Perspectives’,
Oxford (September 2015)
Simon Whittaker
‘Opting for Tort’, opening lecture at the 14th Annual Conference
on European Tort Law, Vienna (April 2015)
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Other Staff Activities
Alexandra Braun, John Cartwright, Andreas von Goldbeck, Stefan Vogenauer
(Convenor) and Simon Whittaker jointly redesigned and taught the FHS option in
‘Comparative Private Law’
Alexandra Braun
Elected as Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law
Laura Carlson
Co-organized a conference for the Swedish Labour Law Network, Stockholm University,
17-18 November 2014
Gerhard Dannemann
Organised ‘A Tribute to FA Mann (1907-1991)’, Humboldt University, Berlin, 21 November
2014
Mark Freedland
General Editor of a new treatise on The Law of the Contract of Employment which is being
prepared for publication by OUP. This involves the close co-ordination of a team of twenty
eminent contributors
Andreas von Goldbeck, Konstanze von Papp and Stefan Vogenauer (Convenor) jointly
taught the BCL/MJur course on ‘International Commercial Arbitration‘ which they had
designed and established in the previous year
Geneviève Helleringer
Convenor of the Empirical Legal Studies Discussion Group at Oxford Law Faculty since
from September 2014
Rodrigo Momberg Uribe
Elected as Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law
Member of the Scientific Committee of the Revista de Derecho Civil (Notarios y
Registradores, España)
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Jeremias Prassl
Awarded a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/news.cfm/newsid/1247
General Editor (with Michal Bobek) of new book series, EU Law in the Member States
(published by Hart Publishing):
http://www.hartpub.co.uk/SeriesDetails.aspx?SeriesName=EU+Law+in+the+Member+Sta
tes
Book Launch in Stockholm (February 2014):
http://www.tco.se/Kalender/Seminarier/EU-Law-Economic-Freedoms-and-Workersrights/
Wolf-Georg Ringe
Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University, USA, Autumn 2014
Felix Steffek
Member Expert Advisory Group, EU funded research project ‘Security Rights and the
European Insolvency Regulation’
World Bank project ‘Mediation Essentials’
Stefan Vogenauer
Ministry of Justice Analytical Services: advice on factors influencing international litigants’
decisions to bring commercial claims to the London based courts (2014)
Max Planck Society: Scientific Member (from 2014)
Université Paris II (Panthéon Assas): Professeur invité (from 2014)
University of Oxford Committee to Review Donations (2011-15)
University of Oxford Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee (2014-15)
Honorary Member of the Società Italiana degli Studiosi del Diritto Civile (from 2015)
Simon Whittaker
Visiting professor at the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) (March 2015)
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Outside Funding
Clifford Chance LLP
The German Academic
Exchange Service (DAAD)
Stifterverband
Torsten Söderbergs
Stiftelse
Ragnar Söderbergs
Stiftelse
Leverhulme Trust Early
Career Fellowship
John Fell OUP Research
Fund
Clifford Chance Paris
John Fell OUP Research
Fund
John Fell OUP Research
Fund
British
Academy/Leverhulme
Small Research Grant
Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP
Stockholm Centre for
Commercial Law
ongoing annual funding for the administration of Course
2 and the exchange programme
ongoing support for the DAAD Lectureship in German
and EU Law
ongoing support for the Erich Brost CDF in German and
EU Law
funding for the Oxford/Stockholm Association in
European Law
(Professor Ulf Bernitz)
funding for the Oxford/Stockholm Association in
European Law
(Professor Ulf Bernitz)
‘Differences in Legal Cultures: a Study on Dispute
Clauses as a Form of Private Regulation’
(Dr Geneviève Helleringer)
support for the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
above
support for French law related activities
support for the conference on ‘The Future of Contract
Law in Latin America’, 25 June 2015
(Dr Rodrigo Momberg Uribe)
award to conduct the research project on ‘Willsubstitutes from a Comparative Perspective’
(Professor Alexandra Braun)
funding for the conference on ‘Will-substitutes from a
Comparative Perspective’, 27-28 March 2015
(Professor Alexandra Braun)
funding for 2015 Oxford French Law Moot
funding for the Stockholm Centre Oxford Fellowship and
the Stockholm Senior Visiting Fellowship
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Events Organised by the Institute
A Symposium to Launch English and European Perspectives on Contract
and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Hugh Beale
7 November 2014, Brasenose College, Oxford
Organisers:
Speakers:
Professor Louise Gullifer and Professor Stefan Vogenauer
Louise Gullifer (Oxford), Stefan Vogenauer (Oxford), Catharine MacMillan
(University of Reading), Mindy Chen-Wishart (Oxford), Jacobien Rutgers
(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Anna Veneziano (Institute for the Unification
of Private Law (UNIDROIT)), Andrew Burrows (Oxford)
Participants: 27 (by invitation)
The proceedings have been published as L Gullifer and S Vogenauer (eds), English and
European Perspectives on Contract and Commercial Law: Essays in Honour of Hugh Beale
(Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2014).
Current Issues in Arbitration and Mediation: French British and
European Perspectives
12-13 December 2014, Brasenose College, Oxford
Organisers:
Funded by:
Speakers:
Dr Geneviève Helleringer and Professor Stefan Vogenauer
Group Total and Clifford Chance
Stefan Vogenauer (Oxford), Guillaume Leyte (University Panthéon-Assas),
Jason Fry (Clifford Chance), Gustav Flecke-Giammarco (ICC), Viktor von
Essen (ICC), Geneviève Helleringer (Oxford and Essec), Pierre-Jérôme Abric
(Areva), Mathias Audit (Paris 10 University), Laurent Jaeger (Orrick),
Katherine Kessedjian (University Panthéon Assas), Roland Ziadé
(Linklaters), Camille Broyelle (University Panthéon Assas), Philippe Théry
(University Panthéon Assas), Bill Wood QC (Brick Court Chambers), Jacob
Grierson (McDermott Will & Emery), Diana Paraguacuto-Mahéo (Ngo Cohen
Amir-Aslani & Associés), Konstanze von Papp (Oxford), François-Régis
Mouret (GDF Suez), Marie Bérard (Clifford Chance), Laurent Jaeger (Orrick)
Participants: 27 (by invitation)
European Rights Human Rights: Convergence or Dissonance?
16 February 2015, Maison Française d’Oxford
Organisers:
Funded by:
Dr Paul Flather (Europaeum) and Professor Stephen Weatherill
EUK@Ox
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Speakers:
Helena Kennedy QC (Oxford), Noëlle Lenoir (formerly French Minister
Delegate for European Affairs), Sir Francis Jacobs (formerly ECJ), Sir Stephen
Sedley QC (formerly Court of Appeal), Michael Pinto-Duschinsky (formerly
Government Commission on a Bill of Rights), Martin Howe QC (Government
Commission on a Bill of Rights), Stephen Weatherill (Oxford), Pavlos
Eleftheriadis (Oxford), Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Oxford)
Eighth Oxford French Law Moot
16 March 2015, Oxford Law Faculty
Organisers:
Funding:
Dr Geneviève Helleringer and Dr Eric Descheemaeker (Edinburgh
University)
Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP and supported by the Association Henri Capitant
Participants: 12 teams competed from the Universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Cologne,
Essex, Exeter, Florence, Kent, King’s College London, KU Leuven, Oxford,
Trinity College Dublin and Warwick
Will Substitutes from a Comparative Perspective
27-28 March 2015, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford
Organisers:
School)
Funding:
Speakers
Professor Alexandra Braun and Professor Anne Röthel (Bucerius Law
British Academy/Leverhulme Grant
Elizabeth Cooke (Law Commission), Thomas Gallanis (University of Iowa),
Alexandra Braun (Oxford), Nicola Peart (University of Otago), Reinhard
Zimmermann (MPI Hamburg), Anatol Dutta (University of Regensburg),
Martin Schauer (University of Vienna), Dominique Jakob (University of
Zürich), Gregor Christandl (University of Innsbruck), Cécile Pérès (Université
Panthéon Assas), Dan Carr (University of Edinburgh), Lionel Smith (McGill
University), Susanne Kalss (Vienna University of Economics and Business),
Paul Matthews (King’s College London), Anne Röthel (Bucerius Law School),
George Gretton (University of Edinburgh), Reinhard Bork (University of
Hamburg), Jonathan Herring (Oxford)
Participants: 60
The proceedings will be published in 2016 by Hart Publishing.
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The Oxford/Stockholm Seminar: The Balance between Contracts and
Codification
27 April 2015, Christ Church, Oxford
Organiser:
Funding:
Speakers:
Dr Laura Carlson
The Torsten Söderbergs Stiftelse and the Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse
Ulf Bernitz (Stockholm and Oxford), Andreas von Goldbeck (Oxford), Jan
Kleineman (Stockholm), Laura Carlson (Stockholm and Oxford), Stefan
Vogenauer (Oxford), Jori Munukka (Stockholm), Adam Green (Stockholm)
Trends in Retail Competition: Private Labels Brands and Competition
Policy: ‘Innovation Choice and Competition Policy’- 11th Symposium on
Competition Amongst Retailers and Suppliers
22 May 2015, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
Organisers:
Funding:
Speakers:
Professor Ulf Bernitz, Dr Ariel Ezrachi and Mr John Noble (British Brands
Group)
Bristows LLP
Philippe Chauve (DG Competition, European Commission), Birgit Krueger
(Bundeskartellamt), Koen Platteau (Simmons & Simmons LLP), Rosemary
Choueka (Bristows LLP), Roman Inderst (Goethe University Frankfurt),
Michael Bauer (CMS Hasche Sigle), Jan Peter van der Veer (RBB Economics),
Oliver Koll (Europanel), Richard Herbert (Europanel), Tim Holmes (Acuity
Intelligence), Nicole Kar (Linklaters LLP), Philip Marsden (Competition &
Markets Authority), Ravi Bhatiani (Independent Retail Europe), Ariel Ezrachi
(University of Oxford), Andrés Font Galarza (Gibson Dunn), Andreas Gayk
(Markenverband), Ulf Bernitz (Universities of Oxford and Stockholm)
Participants: 76
Round Table Discussion on Information Exchange and Market
Transparency
4 June 2015, Pembroke College, Oxford
Organiser:
Funding:
Speakers:
Professor Ariel Ezrachi
The Torsten Söderbergs Stiftelse and the Ragnar Söderbergs Stiftelse
William E Kovacic (George Washington University), Matthew Johnson
(Oxera), Robin Noble (Oxera), Robert C Marshall (Bates White and
Pennsylvania State University), Björn Lundqvist (Stockholm University and
Copenhagen Business School), Lars Henriksson (Stockholm School of
Economics), Ingrid Vandenborre (Skadden), Michael Frese (Skadden),
Florian Wagner von Papp (University College London), Antonio Capobianco
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(OECD), Matthew Chiasson (OECD), Ulf Bernitz (Oxford and Stockholm
Universities), Steffen Haefele (Bundeskartellamt), Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford),
Maurice Stucke (University of Tennessee)
Participants: 34 (by invitation)
Trust and Empirical Evidence in Law Making and Legal Process
(organised jointly with the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies and Notre Dame Law
School)
19-20 June 2015, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
Organisers:
Funding:
Speakers:
Dr Naomi Creutzfeldt, Dr Geneviève Helleringer, Professor Avishalom Tor
(Notre Dame Law School) and Professor Stefan Vogenauer
Oxford Law Faculty Research Support Fund
Andreas Glöckner (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Niva Elkin-Koren
(Haifa Center for Law and Technology), Maayan Perel (Haifa Center for Law
and Technology), Inbar Levy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Liesbeth
Hulst (VU University Amsterdam), Kees van den Bos (University of Utrecht),
Arno Akkermans (VU University Amsterdam), E Allan Lind (Duke
University), Vesco Paskalev (University of Hull), Avishalom Tor (Notre Dame
Law School), Rebecca Hollander-Blumhoff (Washington University),
Matthew Bodie (Saint Louis University), Oren Perez (Bar-Ilan University),
Genevieve Helleringer (Essec Paris and Oxford), Jodi Gardner (Oxford),
Karen Rowlingson (University of Birmingham), Lindsey Appleyard
(University of Birmingham), Mike Hough (Birkbeck University of London),
Anne-Lise Sibony (Liège University), Alysia Blackham (University of
Cambridge), Ronen Perry (Haifa Center for Law and Technology), Naomi
Creutzfeldt (Oxford), Ben Bradford (Oxford University), David RestrepoAmariles (HEC Paris)
Participants: 26
The Future of Contract Law in Latin America
25 June 2015, Keble College, Oxford
Organisers:
Funding:
Speakers:
Dr Rodrigo Momberg Uribe and Professor Stefan Vogenauer
John Fell Fund and Linklaters LLP
Sabrina Lanni (Università Magna Graecia, Catanzaro), Carlos Pizarro (Diego
Portales University – Fundación Fueyo, Chile), Jan Peter Schmidt (Max Planck
Institute, Hamburg), Agustin Parise (Maastricht University), Marie Goré
(Université Panthéon-Assas), Gerardo Caffera (Oxford), Pilar Perales
Viscasillas (Carlos III, Madrid), Diego Fernández Arroyo (SciencesPo, Paris),
Christina Ramberg (Stockholm University), Iñigo de la Maza (Diego Portales
University – Fundación Fueyo, Chile), Rodrigo Momberg (Oxford), John
Cartwright (Oxford), Solène Rowan (London School of Economics), Jean-
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Sebastien Borghetti (Paris II), Alejandro Garro (Columbia University), Hugh
Beale (Warwick University)
Participants: 38
European Contract Law and the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights:
Annual Meeting of the Society of European Contract Law (SECOLA)
26-27 June 2015, Keble College, Oxford
Organiser:
Funding:
Speakers:
Professor Hugh Collins, Professor Stefan Vogenauer and Professor Stephen
Weatherill
SECOLA
Stefan Grundmann (European University Institute and Humboldt
University), Mads Andenæs (University of Oslo), Michael Stürner (University
of Konstanz), Pietro Sirena (University of Siena), Martijn Hesselink
(University of Amsterdam), Dan Wielsch (University of Köln), Jeremias Prassl
(Oxford), Marija Bartl (University of Amsterdam), Jacobien Rutgers
(University of Amsterdam), Olha Cherednychenko (University of Groningen),
Fernando Gomez (Pompeu Fabra University), Catherine Barnard (University
of Cambridge), Max Starke (Humboldt University), Hugh Collins (Oxford),
Hans Micklitz (European University Institute), Dorota Leczykiewicz
(European University Institute)
Participants: 76
The Antitrust Enforcement Symposium 2015
27-28 June 2015, Pembroke College, Oxford
Organisers:
Funding:
Speakers:
Professor Ariel Ezrachi and Professor Bill Kovacic (George Washington
University)
Bates White, Slaughter & May, Sidley Austin LLP, E.Ca Economics
Maureen K Ohlhausen (FTC), Conor Quigley QC (Serle Court Chambers),
Albert Sanchez-Graells (University of Leicester), Damien Geradin (EDGE
Legal), James Cooper (George Mason University), David Szafran (Law
Square), Isabel Taylor (Slaughter and May), Angus Johnston (Oxford), Bill
Blumenthal (Sidley Austin), David Hyman (University of Illinois), Leigh
Hancher (Allen & Overy), Wolf Sauter (University of Tilburg), Thomas
Greaney (University of St Louis), Okeoghene Odudu (University of
Cambridge), Kate Collyer (CMA), Liza Lovdahl Gormsen (British Institute
of International and Comparative Law), Gert-Jan Koopman (European
Commission), Hugh Hollman (Baker Botts), Rambod Behboodi
(Competition Bureau Canada), Ariel Ezrachi (Oxford), Hans Friederiszick
(E.Ca Economics), Maurice Stucke (University of Tennessee), Luther
Lowe (Yelp), Tim Wu (Columbia Law School), Munesh Mahtani (Google),
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John Temple Lang (Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton), Danny Sokol
(University of Florida), Michal Gal (Haifa University), Bill Kovacic
(George Washington University), Juliette Enser (Cartels and Criminal
Group, CMA), Hassan Qaqaya (UNCTAD/ASEAN)
Participants: 47
General Principles of Law: European and Comparative Perspectives.
Celebrating 20 Years of the Institute of European and Comparative
Law
25-26 September 2015, St Anne’s College and the Mathematical Institute, Oxford
Organisers:
Speakers:
Professor Stefan Vogenauer and Professor Stephen Weatherill
Sir David Edward (formerly CJEU), Joxerramon Bengoetxea (University of the
Basque Country), Urska Sadl (University of Copenhagen), Monica Claes
(University of Maastricht), Alexander Somek (University of Vienna), Xavier
Groussot (University of Lund), Samantha Besson (University of Fribourg),
Gráinne de Búrca (New York University), Alison Young (Oxford), Paul Craig
(Oxford), Juliane Kokott (CJEU), Sir Philip Sales (Court of Appeal of England
and Wales), Stefan Vogenauer (Oxford), Stephen Weatherill (Oxford), Petra
Weingerl (Oxford), John Cartwright (Oxford), Hector MacQueen (University
of Edinburgh), Dori Kimel (Oxford), Fernando Gómez (Pompeu Fabra
University Barcelona), Jeremias Prassl (Oxford), Yoan Sanchez (Universities
of Orléans and Strasbourg), Giuseppe Martinico (Scuola Sant'Anna, Pisa),
Tamara Ćapeta (University of Zagreb), Helle Krunke (University of
Copenhagen), Sir Francis Jacobs (formerly CJEU), Daniela Caruso (Boston
University), Iris Benöhr (Queen Mary University of London), Sandra
Fredman (Oxford), Niilo Jääskinen (CJEU), Alina Tryfonidou (University of
Reading), Michal Bobek (College of Europe), Christoph Möllers
(Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin), Catherine Redgwell (Oxford), Otto
Pfersmann (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Jiři Přibáň
(University of Cardiff), Lord Mance (UK Supreme Court)
Participants: 106
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In addition to the above, members of the Institute convene and administer the meetings of
the EU Law Discussion Group, the Comparative Law Discussion Group and the Competition
Law Guest Lectures. The following meetings were held in 2014-15:
EU Law Discussion Group
Europe’s Area of Freedom, Security and Justice
through the Prism of Constitutionalism: Why the EU
Needs a Grammar of Justice to Improve its Legitimacy
Some Recent EU Law Developments Concerning
Renewable Energy: Free Movement and State Aid
Money Talks? The Interplay between the EU’s
Environmental and Economic Policies in Times of
Crisis
What Kind of Legitimacy for What Kind of Court of the
EU?
A Critical Overview of the Legal Measures Adopted to
Combat the Fiscal Crisis
Through a Glass Darkly: Transposing EU Drafting into
English Statutes - Choices, Teleology and True
Meaning
The EU as Administrative Governance and Demoicracy
Free Movement and Secret Tax Rulings: from the
White Paper on Completing the Internal Market
(1986) to LuxLeaks (2014)
The Relationship between the Court of Justice of the
European Union and the EU Legislator
(Why) Has EU Free Movement Gone Wrong?
Economics Governance in Europe: Comparative
Paradoxes and Constitutional Challenges
Walking a Blurry Line: Third Country Nationals in the
EU between Disconnected Inclusion Narratives and
European Citizenship’s Demoicratic Promise
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Ester Herlin-Karnell
(VU University Amsterdam)
Angus Johnston
(Oxford University)
Suzanne Kingston
(University College Dublin)
Jan Komárek
(London School of Economics)
Sideek Mohamed Seyad
(Stockholm University)
Eleanor Sharpston QC
(CJEU)
Peter L Lindseth
(University of Connecticut)
Alexandre Saydé
(CJEU)
Christopher Vajda QC
(CJEU)
Niamh Nic Shuibhne
(University of Edinburgh)
Federico Fabbrini
(University of Copenhagen)
Francesca Strumia
(University of Sheffield)
Federalism and Foreign Affairs: Comparative
Constitutional Perspectives
The Different Dimensions of the Principle of Equality
in EU Law
Robert Schütze
(Durham Law School)
Juliane Kokott
(CJEU)
Comparative Law Discussion Group
Legal Transplants and Legal Myths: How Theodor
Muther became Known as One of the Founding
Fathers of Modern Civil Procedure in Italy, France and
Brazil
A Constitution for the Market for International
Commercial Dispute Resolution?
The Function of a Contract – the Agreement or Simply
Evidence: Anglo-American and Nordic Perspectives?
Renato Beneduzi
(Pontificia Universidade Católica
do Rio de Janeiro)
Gralf-Peter Calliess
(University of Bremen)
Laura Carlson
(Universities of Stockholm and
Oxford)
Esther van Schagen
(Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Impact Analysis in European Contract Law
Comparative Law and Justice Theory: Designing
Felix Steffek
Comparative Taxonomies with Examples from the Law
(University of Oxford)
of Dispute Resolution
Late Notice of Breach: Sales and Other Contracts
Formation of Contract under the Principles of Latin
American Contract Law
Christina Ramberg
(University of Stockholm)
Dr Rodrigo Momberg Uribe
(Oxford University)
Competition Law Guest Lectures
Competition Law and Economics
The Microsoft Antitrust Cases – Implications for
Competition Policy and Enforcement
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Mark Williams
(ECLM Economics Ltd)
Andrew I Gavil
(Howard University) and
Harry First
(New York University)
Florian Wagner-von Papp
(University College London)
Article 9 Commitment Decisions
Kyriakos Fountoukakos and
Molly Herron
(Herbert Smith Freehills LLP)
Vertical Agreements Case Study
European Cartel Criminalisation
Private Enforcement and Competition Law Litigation
Product Redesign and the Abuse of Dominance: the
Apple IPod ITunes Antitrust Litigation
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Peter Whelan
(University of Leeds)
Richard Pike
(Constantine Cannon)
Laurence Popofsky
(Orrick)
Visitors to the Institute
The Institute hosted the following academic visitors in 2014-2015:
Paris Visiting Fellow 2015:
Professor Muriel Fabre-Magnan (University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
University of Stockholm Senior Visiting Fellows 2014-2015:
Professor Christina Ramberg
Professor Sideek Seyad
Professor Renato Beneduzi (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Professor Jean-Sylvestre Bergé (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Mr Jan De Bruyne (University of Gent)
Dr Maria Cahill (University College Cork)
Professor Gralf-Peter Calliess (University of Bremen)
Dr Anne-Elisabeth Courrier (University of Nantes)
Professor Antonio Estella (University Carlos III Madrid)
Dr Alessia Fachechi (Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli)
Dr Ondrej Hamulak (Palacky University)
Dr Ana Keglevic (University of Zagreb)
Professor Raul Lafuente (Alicante University)
Professor Sergio Lapuente (University of La Rioja)
Dr Sabrina Lanni (Istituto di Studi Giuridici Intemazionali, Rome)
Dr Elaine Mak (University of Rotterdam)
Professor Isabel Zurita Martin (University of Cadiz)
Professor Elena Martinez (University of Valencia)
Dr Valentina Moscon (University of Trento)
Dr Noreen O'Meara (University of Surrey)
Professor Anne Röthel (Bucerius Law School)
Professor Lucia Scaffardi (University of Parma)
Professor Maurice Stucke (University of Tennessee)
Dr Tamas Szabados (Eotvos Lorand University)
Dr Stephan Wagner (University of Regensburg
Ms Anna Wallerman (University of Gothenburg)
Dr Alper Cagri Yilmaz (Gazi University)
Professor Reinhard Zimmermann (Max Planck Institute, Hamburg)
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Members of the Institute’s Advisory Council
Professor Guido Alpa
Professor Sir Frank Berman QC
Mr Christopher Bright
The Conseiller Culturel, French Embassy
Professor Paul Craig
The Honourable Mr Justice Cranston
The Director, German Academic Exchange (DAAD)
Professor Sir David Edward
Professor Mark Freedland
Professor Sir Roy Goode
Professor Sir Francis Jacobs
Professor Angus Johnston
Mr Alexander Layton QC
The Right Honourable Lord Mance (Chair)
Ms Alexandra Marks
Mr Hugh Mercer QC
Mr Rupert Reece
The Right Honourable Lord Reed
Sir Peter Roth
The Honourable Mr Justice Silber
Professor Henk Snijders
The Vice Chancellor, Oxford University
Professor Stefan Vogenauer
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