This page contains an overview of all news items relating to the Casebook Project.
- A new task force is currently initiating work on a Casebook on the Horizontal Effects of European Union Law. Those interested in this project are most welcome to contact Prof. A. Hartkamp of the Radboud University (Nijmegen). (24 July 2011).
- The second revised edition of the Casebook on Contract Law has been published on 9 November 2010. A pdf order form is now availabe. The full tables of contents of each part will soon become available here. Original (full text) source materials are not yet available, but will gradually become available as from 2011 onwards. (17 November 2010, update 24 July 2011)
- The Casebooks on Property Law and Civil Procedure are expected to be published in 2012. (13 February 2010, update 17 November 2010, update 24 July 2011)
- Download the new flyer presenting all the volumes published so far in the Casebook series as well as the future volumes expected later in 2010. (update 22 March 2010, update 17 November 2010)
- A new team will embark upon a Casebook on Legal History. It will convene for the first time in Valencia in July 2010. The initial task force members make up the executive of the European Society for Comparative Legal History. (18 March 2010)
- The Casebook on Consumer Law will be available as from 12 March. A pdf order form is now availabe. (13 February 2010, update 19 March 2010)
- The Casebook on Consumer Law will officialy be launched during a workshop in Leuven on Friday 19 March 2010. Consult the programme.(11 January 2010, update 19 March 2010)
- A new task force which will embark upon a Casebook on Conflict of Laws has been set up and will convene its first meeting in Luxembourg on Friday 5 and Saturday 6 February 2010. (15 December 2010)
- The manuscript of the Casebook on Consumer Law has been submitted to the publisher. The Casebook is expected to be available as from March 2010. (15 September 2009)
- An author team at Tilburg University will develop a Casebook on Constitutional Law consisting of four separate volumes (respectively dealing with 'constitutional review', the 'territorial dimension' of constitutional law, the relationship between 'the individual and government authority' and 'parliaments and governments') (ed. Monica Claes, Tilburg university). The authors have a first meeting with the members of their advisory board during a two-day workshop in Tilburg on June 15-16. The development of the casebook is part of a larger EU-funded EUNACON (European and National Constitutional Law) Project. (20 April 2009)
- A new task force will embark upon a Casebook on Judicial Review of Admnistrative Action (edited by Chris Backes, Mariolina Eliantonio and René Seerden, all Maastricht University). It will covene for its first general meeting on April 24-25 in Maastricht. (1 April 2009)
- The Casebook on Non-Discrimination Law has been set as compulsory reading for students taking the course 'Leading Cases in Human Rights Law' offered by the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Law Faculty, University of Oslo. The course is taught by Prof. Ronald Craig and addresses leading cases (supranational, national and international) in three fields: Non-discrimination and Equality, the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples, and freedom of religion and belief. (4 March 2009)
- Lord Bingham cited the first chapter of the Casebook on Non-Discrimination Law in paragraph 4 of the recent House of Lords' judgment in Mayor and Burgesses of the London Borough of Lewisham v Malcolm. The judgment is one of the most important cases on disability discrimination in the UK, where the House of Lords overturns well-established approaches to applying the comparator test in disability discrimination. (17 August 2008)








