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.

Program Münster 2016

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)

PLT 2015 property

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).

Yale Conference 2015

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 2014 venice

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.

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.