Property Law (Casebook in preparation)

• Full title
• Background information
• Table of contents
• Task Force
• Author meetings

Full title

JHM van Erp (ed.) with the collaboration of B Akkermans, A Braun, M Hinteregger, C Lebon, JM Milo, V Sagaert, W Swadling and L van Vliet, Cases, Materials and Text on National, Supranational and International Property Law (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2008)

Background Information

The influence of European economic integration on private law first became clear in contract and tort law as well as the law of unjustified enrichment. Traditionally, comparative lawyers considered the law of property (immovables, movables and claims) as too complex for harmonisation attempts. In their view property law was very much a product of historical developments and political ideology. The divide between common law and civil law, particularly in the light of the way these two systems developed after the French Revolution, was seen as so deep that no common ground could be found. Two examples can be given to illustrate this: the numerus clausus of absolute rights, a fundamental concept in the civil law, does not exist as such in the common law, whereas fragmentation of ownership (characteristic of the common law) is not accepted in civil law systems.

Economic integration, however, follows its own path: integration of financial markets needs integration of mortgage law; intra-community trade demands that the validity and enforceability of security instruments such as retention of title does not depend on highly abstract rules of private international law.

This development has lead to growing interest by comparative lawyers in the history, foundations, underlying principles and basic concepts of property law and the law of security rights (mortgages, pledges, retention of title etc.). The casebook "Property Law" will examine all these aspects of property law in a systematic and accessible way.

Table of Contents

• Introductory Chapter
• Chapter 1. Common concepts and leading principles (JHM van Erp)
• Chapter 2. Protection of property rights (M Hinteregger)
• Chapter 3. Types of property rights: immovables and movables (W Swadling and B Akkermans)
• Chapter 4. Types of property rights: claims (C Lebon)
• Chapter 5. Property rights as Security interests (V Sagaert)
• Chapter 6. Management devices: Trust, Treuhand, Fiducie (W Swadling and A Braun)
• Chapter 7. Creation (L van Vliet)
• Chapter 8. Transfer (L van Vliet and M Hinteregger)
• Chapter 9. Destruction of property rights (W Swadling, JHM van Erp, B Akkermans and L van Vliet)
• Chapter 10. Uniform or harmonised property law (V Sagaert and JM Milo)

Task Force

From left to right: W Swadling, JM Milo, L van Vliet, V Sagaert
T Roseboom, M Hinteregger, JHM van Erp, B Akkermans.

The list below shows the affiliations of the task force members at the time of their involvement in the preparatory process.

Editor

• JHM van Erp (Maastricht University)

Authors

• B Akkermans (Maastricht University)
• A Braun (University of Oxford)
• M Hinteregger (University of Graz)
• C Lebon (University of Leuven)
• JM Milo (University of Utrecht)
• V Sagaert (Universities of Leuven and Antwerp)
• W Swadling (University of Oxford)
• JHM van Erp (Maastricht University)
• L van Vliet (Maastricht University)

Advisory committee

• M Cantin Cumyn (McGill University)
• M De Waal (Stellenbosch)
• S French (UCLA Law School)
• K Reid (Edinburgh University)
• R Zimmermann (Max-Planck Institute Hamburg, University of Regensburg)

Management source materials

• T Roseboom (Maastricht University)

Translators

• LA Geerman (student, Maastricht University)
• T Kuijten (student, Maastricht University)
• E Ramaekers (student, Maastricht University)
• H Schebesta (student, Maastricht University)
• B Witvliet (student, Maastricht University)

Author Meetings

• Leuven, 12 February 2003 (preliminary meeting)
• Maastricht, 23-24 April 2004
• Leuven, 26-27 November 2004
• Maastricht, 21 May 2005
• Edinburgh, 3 December 2005
• Maastricht, 9-10 June 2006
• Leuven, 10-11 November 2006
• Utrecht, 30 November - 2 December 2006
• Salzburg, 16-17 February 2007
• Leuven, 28-30 April 2007
• Maastricht, 9 June 2007
• Leuven, 31 August - 1 September 2007
• Graz, 18-21 October 2007

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