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Private law has often been conceived as a timeless, universal project. Yet, since the Industrial Revolution, grand socio-economic transformations have drawn private law into the whirl of time. Since the social function of private law is in flux, also its basic notions, doctrines and institutions are in continuous need of justification. The 2023-2024 ACT Lecture Series asks how intersecting trends such as digitalization, financialization and concerns for sustainability influence private law, and vice versa: What is the future of private law—and what are the agents, concepts, and processes through which its future(s) will be made?

Semester 2 Lineup and Online Registration

The lectures are hybrid, in room REC A3.01 (research seminar room) and online (registration below).

Interested in staying updated on our lecture series? Then ensure you're in the loop by registering; just send an email to act-fdr@uva.nl to be added to the guest distribution list.

  • Mavis Maclean (Oxford University) 
    New Directions in Family Justice Policy and Practice in Response to Changing Social Structure
    Monday February 12, 2024
    REC A3.01 & online
  • Poul F. Kjaer (Copenhagen Business School)
    Transformative Law Beyond the Private and the Public
    Monday March 11, 2024
    REC A3.01 & online
  • Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po)
    Law’s Ultimate Frontier: Towards an Ecological Jurisprudence 
    Monday April 29, 2024
    REC A3.01 & online
  • Leticia Diez Sánchez (Maastricht U)
    A Distributional Analysis of EU Law
    Monday May 13, 2024
    REC A3.01 & online
  • Christian Iaione (LUISS/KNAW
    Law and Policy of Sustainable Innovation: a public-private law conundrum
    Monday June 3, 2024 
    REC A3.01 & online
  • Tim Bleeker (VU University)
    Modern Risks in Tort Law
    Monday June 17, 2024
    REC A3.01 & online
  • Felipe Jiménez (USC Gould)
    The Institution of Contract
    Monday July 1, 2024
    REC A3.01 & online