Kick-off to the new year

On Wednesday, 22 January 2025, we will welcome in the New Year with a varied program. We look forward to your visit!

Program

Award for Professor Zoll

Professor Fryderyk Zoll was honoured by the Maurycy Allerhand Institute with the prize for outstanding achievement in the field of combining law and economics. The Polish Maurycy Allerhand Institute specialises in insolvency law. It was named after Maurycy Allerhand, the main author of Polish bankruptcy law.

ELI Rules for the judicial independence in the future

As rapporteur, Professor Fryderyk Zoll was involved in creating a reference system to evaluate the various models for organising the judiciary in Europe. The result is a set of rules with basic principles that should help to develop the culture of judicial independence in the future. The European Law Institute has adopted the ‘ELI-Mount Scopus European Standards of Judicial Independence’.

ELSI Lecture on 22.01.2025 with Prof. Vanessa Mak

The next ELSI Lecture will take place on 22.01.2025 at 18:00 Uhr with Professor Vanessa Mak on the topic of "Redefining Equality in European Contract Law. Protecting Consumer Interests in a Post-Consumer Society": Consumers have in law been defined as the weaker parties in a transaction. Contract laws have integrated consumer protection with a view to balancing the interests of the parties, ensuring equal bargaining power and to some extent substantive fairness in contractual relations. Rules of consumer protection have therefore, from a contract lawyer’s perspective, been construed as expressions of a general principle of equality. The principle of equality, conceived in this way, complements the general principle of autonomy underlying contract law, which embodies the idea that parties should have the capacity for self-realisation. Does this construction of consumer contract law still hold in EU consumer markets transformed by the rise of online platforms and the overall move towards an economy based on services and experiences rather than the sale of physical goods? Or do we need to redefine the ways in which the principle of equality is expressed in European contract law in order to correct for new inequalities arising between consumers and businesses?

The lecture will take place at the European Legal Studies Institute in room E03.

Conference on Enforcement of Rights in the Digital Space

The European Legal Studies Institute (ELSI) is pleased to announce a conference on Enforcement of Rights in the Digital Space at Osnabrück University on November 7th and 8th, 2024.
Legal Acts regulating the digital space in the European Union, such as the GDPR, the Data Act and the Digital Services Act, establish manyfold new rights and obligations, such as a duty to inform about data use and storage, rights of access to data or requests for interoperability. Yet, with regard to many of these rights and obligations it remains unclear whether and how private actors can enforce them. Speakers from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Poland and the UK address the commonalities, gaps and inconsistencies within the present system of enforcement of rights in the digital space and explore the different approaches academics throughout Europe take on these issues.
The conference is open to the public.

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