M-EPLI Roundtable: ‘Walking on Common Grounds? New Insights on the Asian, European, and Latin American Principles of Contract Law’, 26 January 2016, Maastricht
The Roundtable will attend the Asian, European, and Latin American principles of contract law from a comparative law perspective. Scholars from each of the three continents will share their insights on the status, merits, and potential of the existing contract law principles.
Location: Boardroom (B1.019), Faculty of Law, Maastricht University
For more information and registration, please contact Dr. Agustín Parise (agustin.parise@maastrichtuniversity.nl).
Programme
9:00 Opening Remarks, Jan Smits (Maastricht University, The Netherlands)
First Session: Latin America
Moderator: William Bull (Maastricht University)
9:05 Agustín Parise (Maastricht University)
Third-generation Civil Codes: Interaction of New Codes and Harmonizing Principles in Latin America
9:25 Discussion
9:45 Rodrigo Momberg (University of Oxford, UK)
The Principles of Latin American Contract Law: Looking for Identity
10:05 Discussion
10:25 Iñigo de la Maza (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)
The Concept of Contract in the Principles of Latin American Contract Law
10:45 Discussion
11:05 Coffee Break
Second Session: Asia and Europe
Moderators: Liuhu Luo and Jiangqiu Ge (Maastricht University)
11:30 Shiyuan Han (Tsinghua University, China)
The Principles of Asian Contract Law: What has been done and What’s going on
11:50 Discussion
12:10 Jan Smits
Principles of Contract Law: Beyond Common Ground
12:30 Discussion
12:50 General Discussion, moderated by Janwillem Oosterhuis (Maastricht University)
13:10 Closing Remarks, Agustín Parise
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A. PariseMore articles from A. PariseAgustín Parise (Buenos Aires, Argentina) is Associate Professor of Law and Chair of the Faculty Council at the Faculty of Law of Maastricht University. He received his degrees of LL.B. (abogado) and LL.D. (doctor en derecho) at Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina), where he was Lecturer in Legal History during 2001-2005. He received his degree of LL.M.
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