M-EPLI’s commitment to the “private side” of a sustainable world continues…
Achieving a sustainable way of life requires massive societal changes and (private international) law should enable, rather than hamper, the realization of such essential goals.
M-EPLI’s commitment to the “private side” of a sustainable world continues…
Just to cite a few key examples: in 2019, Bram Akkermans and Gijs van Dick edited a groundbreaking publication on Sustainability and Private Law where private law specialists make recommendations on the (prospective) contribution of private law to the progressive realization of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Interestingly, private international law was not considered in this publication despite its binding role between public and private, and between domestic and global.
Recently, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law hosted a hybrid conference in Hamburg to present the first results of a project on the role of private international law to the enablement of such international standards. MPI Director and M-EPLI Affiliated Member Ralf Michaels, together with co-organisers Verónica Ruiz Abou-Ngim (University of Edimburgh) and Hans van Loon (former SG Hague Conference on Private International Law) convened a unique gathering where the results of work carried out by a group of scholars with diverse substantive expertise (private international law, transnational law, human rights, public international law, etc.) was presented and discussed. This impressive work is published open-access by Intersentia.
M-EPLI Co-Director Marta Pertegás was invited to be the Discussant of the last panel around the theme of “Rights, Law and Cooperation”, with a focus on SDGs 16 and 17. Her remarks focused on the transversality of the two main SDGs connected to this panel, the challenges of private-public cooperation to advance the idea of responsible businesses and other ways to operationalize the goals of private international law in light of the SDGs.
Achieving a sustainable way of life requires massive societal changes and (private international) law should enable, rather than hamper, the realization of such essential goals. It is very much work in progress…
M. Pertegás Sender
Marta Pertegás (1969) is the current Holder of the Chair on Private International Law and Transnational Law at Maastricht University. She succeeded René de Groot in that position on 15 April 2018.
Marta Pertegás joined the Faculty as a renowned expert in the field of private international law. She possesses practical experience in the codification of private international law and in treaty negotiations, as well as a wide international network.
