Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law

25/02/2021

Monday 8 March @ 15:30-1700. María paz de la Cuesta de los Mozos (EUI) 'SMEs in the Global Value Chain: a new European fair trade'. Registration is open and all are welcome.

In this edition of the ACT Lecture Series Maria de la Cuesta los Mozos will explore how the transformation of the economy into global value chains has radically transformed the form in which economic actors interact with each other.

16/02/2021

New Brown Bag Lunch Series on Legal Professions. Hosted by the European Private Law Masters. Kick-off event 'Careers in an international law firm' on Friday, Feb. 19, 2021 @ 12:30 (CET)

EPL Brown Bag Lunch Series

08/02/2021

Monday the 15th of February @12:30 (CET) Prof. Hanoch Dagan will present at the ACT Lecture Series, his book 'A Liberal Theory of Property' with a focus on 'Just Markets'. Registration is open and all are welcome.

Prof. Hanoch Dagan is the Stewart and Judy Colton Professor of Legal Theory and Innovation and the Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel-Aviv University. Professor Dagan is a former Dean of Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and also served as the founding director of the Zvi Meit...

12/01/2021

18 January @15:30 join the Meat the Law Series kick-off lecture by professor Randall S. Abate. Meat the Law is a series of events focused around sustainability in the meat industry. We are honored that professor Randall. S. Abate will give a lecture on the parallels between lawsuits against fossil fuel companies and factory farms. All are welcome and registration is open.

Randall S. Abate

04/01/2021

21 & 22 January: A digital Conference "Talking law in the EU: clear language, rule of law and legitimacy in the European legal space
Conference in collaboration with the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law"

The conference Talking law in the EU is an interdisciplinary event organised as a collaboration between the Faculty of Law (Anna van Duin, Iris van Domselaar, Candida Leone) and the Faculty of Humanities (Corina Andone) and will bring together experts from a variety of corners to discuss the role, practices and challenges of clear language in the EU legal space. All are welcome and registration is open.

The conference Talking law in the EU is an interdisciplinary event organised as a collaboration between the Faculty of Law (Anna van Duin, Iris van Domselaar, Candida Leone) and the Faculty of Humanities (Corina Andone) and will bring together experts from a variety of corners to discuss the role, p...

04/01/2021

Prof. Alon Harel will be presenting on Monday the 11th of January. All are welcome and registration is open.

ACT and PSC are pleased to welcome Prof. Alon Harel where he presents his paper 'A Standing Conception of Law'. Alon Harel is a professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Center for Rationality specializing in jurisprudence, political theory, constitutional theory and...

07/12/2020

04/12/2020

Lecture on Monday, 7 December @15:30: Inside the diplomatic EU Code of Conduct Group: 20 Years of Tackling Harmful Tax Competition. Martijn Nouwen is an Assistant Professor in Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Director of the Institute for Tax Transparency. Read more and register.

Martijn Nouwen is an Assistant Professor in Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Director of the Institute for Tax Transparency. His presentation will discuss the functioning and effectiveness of the political EU Code of Conduct in the fight against tax avoidance by multinational compani...

18/11/2020

14 December @15:30 , Dieuwke Vos & Simone de Boer from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (BZ) will present (online) the new policy note: “From information to obligation: a new impulse for IRBC” - the government proposes a responsible business conduct (RBC) policy consisting of a mix of mutually reinforcing measures which together should lead to an effective change in behaviour among businesses. Registration is open and all are welcome.

The Dutch government expects companies operating in or from the Netherlands to do so responsibly, in accordance with the OECD-Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. In its new policy note “From information to obligation: a new impulse f...