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The duty of climate due diligence and the exercise of discretionary power
Introduction On 23 July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its advisory opinion on States’ obligations to protect the global climate system, following a request from the United Nations General Assembly. Although [...]
Blockchain-Enabled Energy Communities and Legal Personality of DAO
Introduction Many existing and going on blockchain-enabled energy community projects are realized within open public blockchain ecosystems (Ethereum, Solana, Hyperledger Fabrik). Most notable going-on projects and platforms include ETHGlobal Energy Community DAO (Brussels), VTT’s [...]
Energy (in)justice in the EU legal framework for green hydrogen
This blog is based on the case study: “The European Hydrogen Economy: A Carrier for the Green and Just Transition?” that is part of the Horizon Europe research project: GreenPaths.IntroductionThe European Union’s move towards a [...]
Making Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) Work for Energy Security
The European Union's approach to the energy transition is undergoing a structural shift. This post examines the evolving landscape of EU energy policy, the role of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), the 2024 Electricity Market [...]
Structuring Trust: Making Wind Energy Bankable in EU Law
Introduction The evolution of European Union energy policy over the past three decades demonstrates a clear and consistent trajectory to a decarbonized energy system based in renewable energy, including wind power. To achieve these objectives, [...]
Why Affordable Electricity Matters in Europe
The European Union has made the energy transition one of the defining projects of our time. Through the European Green Deal and the implementation of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Europe aims [...]
Energy Justice and the European Law of Transition: Introduction
From Energy Transition to Legal Transformation This symposium brings together six contributions that emerged from the international workshop “Energy Justice in the European Law of Transition”, convened under the auspices of the Amsterdam Centre [...]
One Century Late: Negotiating Property of the Former Emperor’s Family
The direct descendant of the last German emperor has proven to be a legal tyrant by intimidating historians, journalists, and others through numerous Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP). The prospect of long and [...]
Towards Collective Redress for Data Harms under the GDPR
This blog post builds on the analysis developed in our article ‘Towards Collective Redress for Data Harms under the GDPR’, published in Mass Claims Journal 2025/1, pp 67-77. In a global digital and information economy, [...]
Collective Redress in the Digital Age
From Digital Harm to Collective EnforcementThe rapid and pervasive digitalization of global life has fundamentally reshaped the architecture of power, leading to complex challenges related to digital harms. Today, millions of (individual) consumers or small [...]
Financing Digital Rights Litigation against Big Tech
Introduction Tech policy discussions too rarely focus on how laws are to be enforced against big tech companies, or how private enforcement litigation against tech companies to promote digital rights can be funded. Passing [...]
Collective Settlements in the Digital Space
Why Do Settlements Matter? In the practice of mass litigation, collective settlements play a major role. Empirical evidence shows that the majority of collective disputes are not adjudicated on the merits, but instead are [...]
The Collective Online Protection of Minors in the DSA
Minors are traditionally framed as subjects in need of heightened protection in private law relationships. However, they are also individuals in development, whose agency and autonomy should be respected and fostered. This tension is particularly [...]
The Democratic Value of Collective Litigation
1. Is collective litigation anti-democratic? In discussions about collective actions, a recurring concern is that its growth might be anti-democratic in the sense that it transfers excessive power to the judiciary and shifts political [...]
The transatlantic platform accountability movement
The transatlantic speech regulation crisis is in full swing. Since proclaiming that American online platforms are victims of ‘overseas extortion and unfair fines and penalties’ in early 2025, the US officials and other prominent public [...]
Equitable Digital Justice & Vulnerable Individuals
IntroductionDigitalisation is reshaping the administration of justice across Europe. Electronic filing, online portals, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools now structure many of the everyday interactions between individuals and courts. This shift is often presented as [...]
When the Plaintiff Is a Prediction: the EU Collective Redress Gap for Algorithmic Inference Harms
1. No Erin Brockovich for AI Groups The famous, largely cliché comparison in the context of collective redress is the 2000 classic “Erin Brockovich.” A film that dramatised beautifully a true story of environmental [...]
Digital Harms in Collective Redress: Towards a Framework for GDPR Damages
IntroductionThe success of collective redress in data protection depends on how we conceptualize harm. Across European Union member states, at least three related challenges emerge at the intersection of collective redress and the General Data [...]
Collective Redress and Digital Fairness. A few opening remarks from the Blog Symposium Editors
The present blog symposium is meant to collect and bring to a wider audience the output of the Collective Redress and Digital Fairness Conference, which we organised on 10–11 December 2025 with the support [...]
Zoöp: Consideration for All Forms of Life within an Organization.
Companies are among the biggest polluters worldwide. Since 2016, just 57 corporate and state producing entities have been responsible for 80 percent of global CO₂ emissions. At the same time, we are in the [...]
Any progress in e-waste prevention? Collective action and resistance against obsolescence
Microsoft and the scale of e-waste In 2018, October 14th was designated as International E-Waste Day by the WEEE Forum to raise awareness about the staggering volumes of discarded electronics and the critical raw materials they contain. [...]
The radical emancipatory potential of democratic constitutionalism: The case of material equality
We are quickly learning that living through interesting times comes close to being a curse. Those of us who are lucky not to be at the wrong end of the different unfolding catastrophes feel [...]
Ex Officio Application of Human Rights to Private Law: Living Law Under the Roof of Human Rights
Introduction Human rights are not merely moral, political or legal – they combine aspects of all three. Human rights law mostly recognises such rights vis-à-vis the modern state in the international legal instruments and [...]
Vulnerability and Digital Market Law: An Unorthodox View
Vulnerability – a vulnerable idea In recent years, vulnerability has emerged as one of central concepts in discussions on digital market policy. Its gist is straightforward: while interactions between consumers and firms generate various risks [...]
Who gets to bet on the future?
Cryptostatecraft and the return of Donald Trump to the White House ‘Voter anxiety over the economy and a desire for change returns Donald Trump to the White House,’ reads one of the many headlines [...]
The Housing Crisis Calls for a Different Right to Property
On 13th October, thousands of renters and allies marched through the streets of Madrid calling for a rent strike. PM Pedro Sánchez said in response to the protests: “I don’t want to live in a [...]
Deconstructing creative destruction as an underlying normative goal of IP law
The supposed neutrality of IP law The aim of intellectual property (IP) law is the promotion of innovation and creation (Menell et al., 2023). Normative theories justifying IP protection focus on defining the appropriate [...]
What Comes After ’Critique’?
‘Critique’ seems to have run out of steam, increasingly being reduced to a ritualized performative act. ‘Of course, I am critical’ one says and goes on with everyday practice. This is most visible in the [...]
Report on Expert Workshop: Assessing Collective Private Enforcement (CPE) in Data Protection Law
Introduction On 23 October 2024, the APPLIED project, led by Francesca Episcopo, Anna van Duin, and Jef Ausloos, hosted an expert workshop at the University of Amsterdam. APPLIED – Assessing Private Parties Litigation in the [...]
Sustainability and the public-private divide
Introduction Sustainability concerns such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and inequality are the defining issues of our time (Dyer 2024; Hickel 2020; Steffen et al. 2015). The relationship between these issues and human activities [...]
The digital vulnerable consumer: a concept with critical potential or entrenching logics of market efficiency?
In recent years, the topic of consumer vulnerability has come to the fore in the context of the digitalisation of the economy insofar as it can be seen as a symptom of, and embodying [...]
Consumer responsibility to remedy structural injustice: European consumer law’s capitalistic strategy
Capitalist global processes of production and consumption are unjust. Social movements have been claiming this for decades. Production for private consumption requires an extensive use of natural and finite resources, which we are depleting. [...]
Doing Justice to Justice in EU Data Law
Data-driven technology has become a mainstay in our societies. Feeding AI systems and the IoT, large-scale datasets have the potential to radically reshape our understanding of things and basic social practices. It should thus [...]
Social injustices between inclusive and transformative private law
Two decades on, much of the scenario against which the Manifesto was written has changed. The substantive problems it highlighted, however, have not diminished - if anything, they have intensified. The tension between socially [...]
Re-Coding Capital: Can a New EU Code of Private Law make Global Finance more Socially Just?
A few years ago, Katharina Pistor published a book that presented a powerful illustration of the profound political, economic and social consequences that have resulted from a depoliticised and market-centric approach to private law. [...]
Insuring global social justice: After success with legal claims, transnational remedial institutions are needed in a global value chain economy
1. Social Justice and Globalization, c. 1990—2020 As a child in the 1980s, the clothes I wore were manufactured in the country where I lived, Finland. As an adult in the 2020s, when I [...]
Reconfiguring contract law through sustainability
Though not the centrepiece, sustainability was already on the radar of the Manifesto for Social Justice in European Contract Law in 2004: ‘It is important to align the general principles of social justice that [...]
Consumer Law, Social and Ecological Justice: Charting the Crossroads
Introduction In 2004, a group of scholars signed a collective work with the evocative title “Social Justice in European Contract Law: A Manifesto”. Starting from the idea that private contract law had the [...]
The other ‘class’ question
Introduction The original Manifesto refers to ‘procedures’ and ‘enforcement’ only once each. Yet, civil procedure is essential to any analysis of private law. In Europe, civil procedure and enforcement laws are advancing at a [...]
The multifaceted aspects of the “new consent”
Today, consent seems an important occurrence of our daily life. Traditionally, consent was the staple of classical contract law but consent is nowadays relevant not only for making contracts, but also in sexual relationships, [...]
How the ‘Legal Capacity’ of Persons with Disabilities May Serve as a Tool for Social Justice in Europe?
Self-determination, employment, housing, and access to credit are essential aspects of social justice insofar as they are necessary to satisfy citizens’ fundamental needs and ensure a range of basic entitlements (Caruso 2013). All these [...]
The Making of the Debtor Society: From Affluence to Normalised Indebtedness
In this contribution, I introduce the concept of a “debtor society” and explore how it reflects broader socio-economic transformations shaped by neoliberal policies and financialisation. Building on Pistor’s (2019) argument that capital is coded [...]
How the EU Can Avoid Green Colonialism
Twenty years after its publication, the Manifesto for Social Justice in Contract Law’s call to “align the general principles of social justice that govern the market order with standards designed to protect public goods [...]
Private Law Fairness between Generations?
Distributive justice is an essential element of social justice. When discussing distributive justice in private law, one important question is: a fair distribution between whom? For example, is a consumer protection instrument that strengthens [...]
Digital Vulnerability as a Tool for Social Justice in European Private Law
The emerging paradigm of digital vulnerability In recent decades, the concept of vulnerability has emerged in many post-industrial societies to signify the growing fragility of human beings, economies, infrastructures, and ecosystems in the contemporary [...]
Reconceptualising the Social Dimension of Business Freedoms through a Fundamental Rights Lens
Introduction The balancing of economic and social rights and interests has provoked an almost perennial discussion within the context of the deepening and widening of European Union (EU) integration. In my forthcoming monograph, Business [...]
Protection of the ‘Vulnerable’ Consumers in the Age of Neurotechnology
Digital technology is being integrated into our daily lives and personal spheres and soon it will be part of our bodies. For instance, advancements in neurotechnology include brain imaging and the manipulation of brain [...]
The Commodity Form Theory of Law, Monopoly Capitalism and Transformative Private Law
Introduction Given the current intertwined ad multifaceted global crisis, and given the at best modest outcomes of private law in moderating deepening inequalities - despite the numerous and laudable efforts by scholars with different [...]
Contract, Welfare and Radical Democracy. Viable Promise or Wishful Thinking?
The interplay between the law of contract, the welfare state, and the quality of democracy has always been at the core of modern European legal systems. From a historical perspective, it is easy to [...]
Thinking Freedom of Contract Sustainably
Sustainability and freedom of contract At the time of writing this blogpost (18th of September 2024), large parts of eastern and central Europe are drowning in historical floodings. Would I have started writing this [...]
The Right to Work and Social Justice in the Face of Mass Unemployment
This post focuses on social justice in the realm of work, more specifically on access to jobs and livelihoods. Daniela Caruso, in proposing in 2013 a retrospective analysis of social justice scholarly projects in [...]
Manoeuvring EU Law: Queer Feminist Approaches to Sex Work and Social Justice
Last 25 July, the European Court of Human Rights did not find any violation of the right to private life in a case lodged by 261 sex workers on the grounds that French law [...]
Consumer Law and Inequality: Comparative Approaches to Consumer Vulnerability
With the amount of exploitative digital tools explicitly targeting consumers’ vulnerabilities on the rise, it hardly seems controversial to call for greater protections. Whether consumer law should be concerned with inequality, however, is a [...]
Transformation of Property Law for Sustainability
My own view of the question, “can private law be “rescued” is that we cannot achieve sustainability without a transformation in private law and in the deeply embedded values that it both reflects and [...]
The Individualization of Work Transitions – Searching for Ways Out
Young people’s ways into and through the labour market – work transitions – lengthen, diversify, and become reversible. They are characterized by heterogeneity in terms of work relations used, educational and training pathways frequented, [...]
Quo Vadis Social Justice?
Il Quarto Stato with Motta, Campari, Pirelli Armani, Prada, Chicco, Alitalia and Visa at Piazza Duomo © 2024 TOMOKO NAGAO For the cover image of all contributions to the Social Justice 44 symposium, we have [...]
Our Digitalized Lives – Taming the Omni-Present Private Market Logic
Regaining the Public from the Private Keeps the Hope AliveWith the huge expansion of digitalization into almost all areas of our public and private lives and our societies, we also witnessed an unprecedented expansion of [...]
Prefigurative Private Law
Two decades after the Manifesto, it has become clear that private law injustices – that is, injustices done through private law – will not be overcome through directives and regulations. The ordinary legislative procedure [...]
Is the Right of Ownership at Odds with the Circular Economy?
The circular economy is one in which biological and industrial materials are kept in circulation via recycling, reuse, refurbishment, composting, etc. This means that producers have to change the design of their products and [...]
How Can Contracts Contribute to Human Rights Protection in Global Value Chains?
Introduction Contracts are the central building blocks for many developments in the transnational sphere such as the global value chains (GVCs) where they become vehicles for distribution, participation, and equality, a role more far-reaching [...]
Symposium: Social Justice, Private Law and Europe(?) 2024-2044: Keeping the Hope Alive
As of this week, the TPL blog will start publishing a series of blog posts around the theme “Social Justice, Private Law and Europe(?) 2024-2044: Keeping the Hope Alive”, which will be at the [...]
Shareholder Primacy: A Promise Rather than a Barrier in Sustainability Transitions
In the United Kingdom (UK), institutional investors (pension funds and insurance companies) have sought to add climate-related shareholder proposals to the voting ballot at annual general meetings, with the aim to improve the sustainability strategy [...]
Three Models of Transformative Law
Transformative Law Encounters In a previous post on the Transformative Private Law Blog, Martijn Hesselink calls “the idea of transformative private law a little scary”. The intuitive reason for Hesselink to be scared seems [...]
Embedding checks and balances in steward ownership: The case of OpenAI
On November 17, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman was fired by the board of directors of OpenAI. Speculations about what happened suggest that there was a separation in the company between the commercially-minded Altman on [...]
Industrial Policy for a Sustainable European Economy: Toward Ownership that Works for People
The text below was drafted as the conclusions of the Conference “Transformative Ownership in Times of Overlapping Crisis”, held in Amsterdam, 5-6 October 2023. We are preparing a longer white paper on the basis of [...]
Critical approaches in EU law – still a blindspot.
Why is the space for critical legal engagements within EU law so narrow, almost non-existant? Critical legal engagements openly question the underpinnings of EU legal thinking showing how its inner logics reproduce various forms of [...]
Urban commons, from Italy to Europe
What should we do with abandoned spaces and facilities in the outskirts of our cities? How can we recover such spaces, while at the same time strengthening social cohesion in our neighbourhoods and citizens’ [...]
Legal innovation to empower the disempowered in service of a sustainable city
Amsterdam’s vision of becoming a sustainable city We have been fascinated by two small bottom-up initiatives in and around Amsterdam: the Community Land Trust in Amsterdam South-East and the so-called Zoöp. In a recent [...]
Positive Sustainable Obligations in Property Law
When it comes to living within our planetary boundaries, land use is incredibly important. Not only do industry and agriculture significantly contribute to climate change, also construction of homes and the way in which these [...]
Academic freedom and the perils of the employment contract in managerial universities – time for action
According to a recent study for the European Parliament, academic freedom in the Netherlands is under pressure. The report, which drew some attention in the Dutch debate, identifies three main sources of pressure: “developments in [...]
Sustainability and advertising: from consumer choice to consumer habits
Can Shell claim to be the Netherlands’ largest investor in green energy in its advertisements? At the start of this month a new Code on Sustainability Advertisement was adopted by the Dutch Advertising Code Committee [...]
The Transfer of Ownership in the ‘Patagonia Case’: Tax Avoidance or a Step toward a Non-Extractive Economy?
This blog was featured earlier on the Verfassungsblog. September 15th 2022 was a big day for the climate movement. The owner of Patagonia – a large multinational corporation producing wearables – transferred 98% of his [...]
Levelling the playing field: making the BVm viable
This blog was featured earlier on the N-EXTLAW project website Since first bursting on the scene in Italy in the late 1980s, the notion of the 'social enterprise' has spread to nearly every corner [...]
Personalised standard terms? Or, the transformations we didn’t know we didn’t really need
Introduction Algorithm-enabled “personalisation” is a hot topic in legal scholarship. In recent times, “personalised law” has been the subject of books (like this and this), a conference culminating in a high-level online symposium and numerous [...]
Making banks care about the future: transition risk management as a regulatory technique
Since the 2015 Paris Agreement recognised the role of capital flows in climate change mitigation, EU regulations have sought to harness finance to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. New laws inter alia created a common [...]
Time to Dial the Arbitrators
The dispute settlement mechanism of the Energy Charter Treaty (‘ECT’) has been proving to be an obstacle for States in their quest to meet climate obligations. The ECT aims to ensure the protection of investments [...]
Symposium: The Gender Politics of Global Law
The work of turning ‘the economy’; ‘the political’ and ‘global law’ from a priori concepts into questions is a critical one for our time, as these forms have come to dominate so much of how [...]
Symposium: Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law: Constituting the Economic
Who defines economy and value in international law? Who is left out? And what are the implications for social and environmental justice? A useful starting point may be to acknowledge that people value different [...]
Symposium: The Concept of Value Practices for International Law
In our discussion about sustainable global economic law last December, Matt Canfield asked us several questions to guide our conversation. We reproduce them to structure our contribution here, which we offer as a dialogue [...]
Symposium: Fair Trade and the Neoliberal “Social”
Our conference organizers venture that “in pursuing sustainable global economic law, the question of how we construct and identify the ‘economic’ is critical.” We suggest that one element of this critical question is how [...]
Symposium: Introduction – Constituting the “economic”
In pursuing sustainable global economic law, the question of how we construct and identify the “economic” is critical. Anthropologists, sociologists, historians, and scholars of science and technology studies have approached the formation of what [...]
Symposium: Environmental Justice and law
On the basis of my work in three projects (co-chairing UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6, co-chairing Future Earth’s Earth Commission, and my Advanced Grant on Climate Change and Fossil Fuels), I have three critical messages [...]
Symposium: Global Law: Sustaining accumulation, constraining ecological protection?
The concept of sustainability, or sustainable development, articulated in the 1987 Brundtland Report has, since the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development, legitimated what Steven Bernside calls the ‘compromise of liberal environmentalism’.[1] This [...]
Symposium: Introduction – The Politics of Sustainability
In these two blogs, Julia Dehm and Joyeeta Gupta engage the questions of sustainability and environmental justice in contemporary global legal governance. In their blogs we see a common concern with the dominant position [...]
Symposium: Towards a Sustainable Global Economic Law: Shifts, Ruptures and Social Justice
What might a ‘Sustainable Global Economic Law’ (SGEL) look like, in a context of accelerating ecological degradation, wild levels of inequality and wealth concentration, continuous technological disruption and strong demands for environmental and social [...]
The Nature of Comparing
What do you think about when someone mentions the US State of Louisiana? Mardi gras, hurricanes, jazz and a Sazerac cocktail? Ask a comparative lawyer and they may respond that Louisiana is a Mixed Legal [...]
Frenzy of the Streets: The Radical Aspirations of Justifying Contract in Europe
A comment on the ACT Book Symposium of 30 September 2021 On 30 September 2021, the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Private Law hosted and organised a book symposium around Martijn Hesselink’s recent book Justifying [...]
Raworth’s Doughnut as a Compass for a Sustainable City? Lessons from the SUSA Initiative
In its Circular Strategy 2020-2025, Amsterdam relies on the Amsterdam City Doughnut developed by the British economist Kate Raworth. The model depicts an economy where societies and businesses contribute to economic development while respecting [...]
The shifting contours of property: ‘social function’ in the neoliberal era
‘Property', Alexis de Tocqueville wrote on the eve of the uprisings that shook Europe in 1848, ‘will be the great battlefield’. As the long shadow of the French Revolution sealed the demise of the [...]
Reimagining Extractive Capitalism: Learning from Italy’s Banca di Credito Cooperativo
The paradigm of contemporary business is extractive; it is oriented towards generating large profit margins from energy, resources, money, personal data, labour, health and well-being. Extractive capitalism presents us with a particular mentality in [...]
Thinking Infrastructurally About the Law of Multinational Corporations
“If the program of Realists was to lift the veil of legal form to reveal living essences of power and need, the program of the Critics is to lift the veil of power and [...]
Lessons about Lender Liability from Brazil
The recent use of the Lender Liability regime in Brazil by public prosecution can bring fresh ideas for Dutch lawmakers who want tighter controls over investment in socio-environmentally sensible activities. Public prosecutors use this [...]
Friends of the Earth Netherlands versus Royal Dutch Shell: All companies must act against climate change
The 26th of May 2021, the Court of First Instance of The Hague rendered a ground-breaking judgment in a climate case against the oil giant Royal Dutch Shell (RDS).[2] The Court ruled that RDS has [...]
Responsible or just compliant business conduct? On open norms and the example of ARISA v C&A
In his blog post summarizing the contents of the new Dutch Responsible Business Conduct strategy, Jurrien van Rees writes on the difficulties of turning due diligence into binding legal provisions:Due diligence should be appropriate to [...]
Down the rabbit hole of unequal opportunities: Achbita and the way out
Non-discrimination: Transformative contract law? From a broad social perspective, non-discrimination law is arguably the area of private law with the most sweeping transformative ambitions. This is reflected in the introduction to the EU’s Framework directive [...]
Sustainable Corporate Governance: The Role of the Law
One way to look at sustainable finance is through the lenses of corporate governance. 100 large companies worldwide are responsible for 71% of Greenhouse Gas emissions (GHGs). About one third of these are publicly held [...]
Responsible Business Conduct: Challenges and Opportunities
Responsible business conduct (RBC) is here to stay. There is a clear trend towards more binding RBC measures. Some countries have introduced thematic or sectoral due diligence legislation for specific RBC themes, such as forced [...]
Data as Counter-Performance and Transformative Contract Law
Within the framework of Transformative Private Law, a leading role must necessarily be recognized for Contract Law, traditionally both a receptor for social demands and an engine of economic innovations in an unceasing circular process. [...]
Transformative Property Law
Property’s transformative nature: Space mining, Airbnb, and Apartheid For the last few years, a new, innovative business model has been on the rise. It is called ‘space mining’ – digging for valuable resources in asteroids [...]
Unboxing Transformative Private Law
Private law is tasked with two antagonistic missions in modern society; that is to facilitate steady ordering while allowing for openness and the autonomous pursuit of highly pluralistic life plans. The solution to the [...]
The transformative role of courts in European private law
When we talk about transformative private law, an important question we should ask is: who are the drivers of transformation – private parties, legal scholars, legislatures, or the EU? This blog post revolves around [...]
Transformative Private Law as a Resource to Overcome Regulatory Shortcomings in the European Digital Market
Much debate arose regarding the role that private law is supposed to serve in the digital environment: the widespread of new technologies is almost unanimously understood as posing significant challenges to traditional concepts of law, [...]
The Transformative Private Law Blog: An Introduction
After months of hard work and preparation we welcome you to the Transformative Private Law blog. The transformative private law blog sets out to be a platform for the discussion, debating and (re)thinking of the [...]
The Idea of Transformative Private Law
During the recent Launch event of the Amsterdam Center for Transformative Private Law, we discussed the concept of Transformative Private Law. In what follows, I present the concept both as an analytical/critical project as well [...]
The Idea of Transformative Private Law: some critical observations
The transformation of the centre The recent transformation of the centre has been truly impressive. It was an excellent idea to widen horizons and pursue new themes. Moreover, the new mission statement is strong, ambitious [...]
Reflections on Transformative Private Law
What is the meaning of ‘transformative private law’? Or what does membership of a research group that has chosen this name entail? Here are some reflections of a member of the newly launched Amsterdam Centre [...]
Transformative Law in a Digital World from a Contract Law Perspective
On Valentine’s day, the Amsterdam Centre for Transformative Law (Act) was launched at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. According to its Mission Statement, it focuses on ‘the role of private law in the making of society, as well [...]