PLT co-hosted a Berlin Workshop, 06 October 2017, on meritocracy in the US and Germany (organised by Bertram Lomfeld, FU Berlin). A group of German lawyers, economists and sociologists is discussing the manuscript of Daniel Markovits’ (Yale Law School) new book “Meritocracy and Its Discontents” (forthcoming with Penguin and C.H. Beck). In discussion with the workshop participants aim to reconstruct the significance and development of a meritocratic structure and attitude in Germany. | PLT 2017 meritokratie
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German Private Law Theory Meeting in Münster
There is a great new initiative in German private law theory. On 12 and 13 February Nils Jansen (Münster University) and Michael Grünberger (Bayreuth University) organized a conference on German “Perspectives of Private Law Theory”. The format of the conference was to discuss on three recent private law theory books on the basis of four invited commentaries in each case. It is intended to repeat such book discussions on a regular annual basis.
PLT 2015 Workshop, The Core of Property
The next PLT Workshop on property theory in Königswinter (Germany) will gather leading US and European property scholars to find out if there is something like “The Core of Property” and what it might look like. The workshop is organized by Dan Wielsch (Cologne University), Bertram Lomfeld (Free University Berlin) and Hanoch Dagan (Columbia Law School)
Yale Private Law Theory Conference, June 2015
Inaugurating the new Yale Center for the Studies of Private Law, its founder, Daniel Markovits, convenes a conference on “Private Law and Public Order”, 05 and 06 June 2015 at Yale Law School (New Haven).
PLT Venice Workshop “Cultures of Contract Interpretation”, October 2014
In October 2014 there will be a new PLT Workshop on “Contract, Context, Text. Cultures of Contract Interpretation” at Venice International University in Venice, Italy organized by Bernhard Jakl (Frankfurt University) and Bertram Lomfeld (Free University Berlin).
PLT Vigoni-Talks published
The PLT Villa Vigoni-Talks are published as special edition of Law & Contemporary Problems (Volume 76/2) : Lomfeld/Wielsch (eds.), The Public Dimension of Contract (2013). We wish to thank all the contributors who made that outstanding publication possible.
Outlining PLT
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After the Cologne meeting Dan Wielsch and Bertram Keller drafted an preliminary outline on what could be understood under PLT. It could also be found in the section “What is PLT?”(PDF)
We hope that this outline will initiate a controversial debate about the object and the ends of private law theory and the PLT network. Of course we will review the program under “What is PLT?” from time to time corresponding to the evolving discussion.