news and reports
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Genova Week 2025
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…
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Leuven Week 2025
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…
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Genova Week 2025 Programme
The Programme for the PEPP-Week in Genova (19.05. – 23.05.25) is now available here.
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Katowice week 2025
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…
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The 7th PEPP Book is out now!
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,…
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Münster Week 2024
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…
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Katowice week 2025 Programme
The programme for the PEPP-Week in Katowice (12.01.-18.01.) is now available here.
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Münster week 2024 Programme
The programme for the PEPP-week in Münster (21.10.-25.10.) is now available here.
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Valencia week 2024
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…
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Cambridge week 2024 programme
The programme for the PEPP-week in Cambridge (19.03.-22.03.) is now available here.
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Cambridge week 2024
The third week of PEPP took place from March 19th to March 22nd at the University of Cambridge, where the participants stayed at the premises of Downing College. The academic program consisted of various lectures, a number of which focused on the role of Al in law. It also included the preparation of a moot…
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Valencia Week 2024 Programme
The programme for the PEPP week in Valencia (17.06.-21.06.) is now available here.
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Maribor Week 2024
The second week of PEPP took place from January 15th to January 19th in the city of Maribor, Slovenia. Its academic programme consisted of insightful lectures as well as two interactive workshops. In addition to that, the first group of participants presented their doctoral research and benefited from lively legal debates that followed. Among the…
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Münster week 2023 programme
The programme for the PEPP-week in Münster (30.10-03.11) is now available here.
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Genova Week 2023
The fourth week of the PEPP was held in Genoa from June 5th to June 9th. After three successful weeks of engaging activities and informative sessions, the participants were excited to reunite for the final leg of the program. The Genoa Week proved to be an eventful and enriching experience, variety of lectures. PhD offering…
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Genova week 2023 programme
The programme for the PEPP-week in Genoa (05.06-09.06.) is now available here.
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Leuven week 2023
The third week of the PEPP took place in Leuven from March 6h-10th. The group enjoyed another week together filled with many exciting events, lectures and workshops, such as a negotiation workshop and an introduction to the PEPP-moot court taking place in Genoa. Another highlight of the week was the visit to Brussels, where the…
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Leuven week 2023 programme
The programme for the PEPP-week in Leuven (06.03.-10.03.) is now available here.
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Zagreb Week 2023
The second week of PEPP took place in Zagreb from January 23rd till January 27th. The group spent an eventful week in the Croatian capital, filled with compelling lectures at the university, exciting visits to Museums and fun evenings. What stood out to be a truly memorable and unique experience for the group was the…
