From 19 to 23 May 2025, the group gathered for the final time in Genova, Italy. After a welcome by the coordinators, Monday focused on surrogacy in the EU and GDPR-related damages, followed by participant presentations and a guided city tour. Tuesday covered topics like conflicting divorce and adoption laws, international maritime law, and arbitration…
From March 17 to 21, 2025, PEPP participants reunited in the picturesque city of Leuven. The week began with a welcome speech by Prof. Wouter Devroe, followed by discussions on sustainability in private law. Tuesday focused on the reform of Belgian private law, covering historical perspectives, property law, contract law, and obligations, ending with a…
The Programme for the PEPP-Week in Genova (19.05. – 23.05.25) is now available here.
The PEPP class of 2024/2025 reunited in Poland for the second PEPP week from January 13th to 17th, 2025. The week began in Katowice with engaging lectures and workshops on ESG compliance, civil liability and data protection, fashion law, and cross-border company restructuring. Highlights included tackling the issue of court digitalization, a Q&A session with…
The 7th PEPP book is out now! The contributions of various participants and lecturers of the 2022/23 round of PEPP have now been published open access. The book is entitled ‚EU (and) Private International Law. Societal Changes and Legal Challenges‘. As always it is edited by Bettina Heiderhoff and Ilaria Queirolo. Authors are: GUGLIELMO BONACCHI,…
The first week of the 2024/2025 PEPP round took place in Münster from October 21st to October 25th. This year, a total of 24 doctoral students from all over Europe who are researching in the field of European private law came together. Elsemieke Daalder, James Fowkes, Anna Kirchhefer-Lauber, Sebastian Lohsse, Christian Rüsing and many external…
The programme for the PEPP-Week in Katowice (12.01.-18.01.) is now available here.
The programme for the PEPP-week in Münster (21.10.-25.10.) is now available here.
The fourth and last week of the PEPP round in 2023/2024 was held from June 17th to June in 21st in Valencia. Besides lectures and the last set of PhD presentations the academic programme consisted of a moot court that the PEPPers had started to prepare in Cambridge. In Valencia, they took the roles of…
The programme for the PEPP-week in Cambridge (19.03.-22.03.) is now available here.