The Centre for Transformative Private Law (ACT) was launched in early 2020 during a festive event together with many friends and scholars. Our academic year of events included 11 guest lectures with speakers from 9 ...

On Friday the 12th of June at 11:00 Candida Leone defends her thesis ''The missing stone in the Cathedral: on unfair terms in employment contracts and coexisting rationalities in European contract law ''

Dr. Anat Rosenberg of the Radzner Law School visits the Amsterdam Law School digitally for an ACT Lecture.

In this joint online seminar, Andrea Renda (CEPS and College of Europe) discussed his paper 'Single Market 2.0: the European Union as a Platform'.

ACT hosts a three-day digital conference titled, Private Rights for Nature on 3-5 June 2020.

In this SGEL online lecture Hans Lindahl (University of Tilburg & Queen Mary University of London) will speak about the inclusion and exclusion of international law in the context of globalisation, ...

The University of Luxembourg will host the conference, 'Beyond Method: Politics of Legal Research' as a follow-up discussion to the ACT workshop titled, 'The Politics of Method in EU Law.'

We are happy to share with you some exciting news: on the 1st of January, CSECL has become ACT, that is, Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law. We will celebrate the transformation of our research group at ...

Prof. Jérôme Pélisse of Sciences Po visits the Amsterdam Law School for a ACT Lecture.

Prof. Rutger Claassen of Utrecht University will be visiting the Amsterdam Law School for a ACT Lecture.

Prof. Christine Desan of Harvard University will be visiting the Amsterdam Law school for an event jointly organized by CSECL and ACLE.

This conference is a part of broader interdisciplinary project that aims to develop alternative epistemologies of care as the basis for rethinking global political economy. We see care, and caring, for both people ...

Kicking off the SGEL conference on ‘Epistemologies of Care: Rethinking Global Political Economy,’ Nancy Folbre (University of Massachussetts Amherst) will give a lecture entitled ‘Accounting for Care.’ The conference ...

Professor Jennifer Nedelsky of Osgoode School of Law visits the Amsterdam Law School for a CSECL Lecture.

Dr. Caterina Sganga visits the Amsterdam Law School for a CSECL Lecture.

Bronwen Morgan (UNSW Law School) will be presenting her latest research exploring the potential of platform cooperativism as a response to the moral critique of markets. She finds that the legal framework for ...

On 7 and 8 November 2019, the ‘Judges in Utopia’ project’s final conference will take place. The aim of this conference is to present the project’s results to an audience of legal scholars and practitioners and to ...

High-profile academics discuss Hans-W. Micklitz's latest book titled The Politics of Justice in European Private Law.

Isabel Feichtner's presentation takes deep seabed mining as a case study to examine the role of law in co-constituting value. She recalls how international law has contributed to a perception of the oceans as a ...

CSECL is proud to welcome Martijn Scheltema of the Erasmus University for a presentation of his paper on improving contractual mechanisms to advance human rights compliance in supply chains.